Big D’oh! for the Engadget team! They erroneously leaked a video showing all the goods of the new Olympus E-M1. The video has now been removed but you can still find it mirrored on many sites. For example here: http://uploaded.net/file/9pf6imwp
Speca are also known. It’s basically an E-P5 with VF-4 viewfinder and has the body of the E-M5 with the E-5 grip. You can’t explain a new camera in a shorter way than that 🙂
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Bit more to it than that, I think. I saw the video as well and the E-M1 is geared for pros. It can take the 4/3 lenses and run with them b/c is has phase detect AF as well as contrast detect AF (used with the m4/3 lenses). It is also weather, dust, AND freeze -proof (to -10C). Two things are keeping me from seriously considering this camera: the 4:3 aspect ratio means every shot has to be cropped to be printed and the 2x lens crop which kills wide angle work. (TBH, its more the first issue than the second).
Hmm, 4:3 is the ratio of all P&S cams, which account certainly for most prints.
My standart sizes are 40*30cm and 80*60cm, which is 4:3. The only standard size which is 3:2 is 10*15cm. But for these you could crop the hell out, since 1MP would still be far enough…
I have often wish I had more reach wanting a wider photo is almost never a problem
Can you explain to me in which way the wide-angle zooms for m43 offer less WA (“kills wide angle work”) than WA zooms for APS-C or FF?
all Olympus cameras offer 4×3. 3×2. 16×9 formats for jpeg and RAW
the EVF only shows you what you see in the selected format
so I dont know what you are on about but Im pretty damn sure you dont either
“E-P5 with VF-4 viewfinder and has the body of the E-M5 with the E-5 grip”
and Leica pricetag
😛
???
Leica M 240 – $10’000
vs.
Olympus E-M1 – $1500
As a professional crop camera I think the price should be compared to the launch price of a Canon 7D or Nikon D300s. It seems completely reasonable.
Gizmo camera
Hope this camera handles better than it looks. It looks like a niche camera to satisfy former full size M4/3’rds users ?
Definitely not a consumer camera but I wouldn’t call it niche. Sure it is going to be great for those who have a collection of 4/3 glass but that doesn’t mean it isn’t a fantastic pro level camera for those just starting their camera system.
As I already have an OM-D with the HLD6 grip and no 4/3 glass I won’t be enticed this time, but future iterations are definitely on the cards!
I agree with Keith C. This is absolutely a niche camera. 43s was a niche system. This does nothing to change that. Niche does not mean valueless or garbage. It means it appeals to a small segment. I am sure it’s a great camera for the small segment of folks who:
a) have 43 lenses (a very small population)
b) don’t mind having a DSLR-sized body + lens with a high crop factor (for e.g. birding, etc.)
3) need serious weather proofing
These groups and these needs have always been niche. Nothing in this camera will change that. The lenses and even the camera could be superior in many ways. I’m not arguing that. It’s just that this set of features will be most valued by a small segment of users.
Buying this camera is a good excuse to buy that nice HG and SHG ZD glass that is better than anything out there.
Was it stolen?? The Gizmodo page is now gone!
I don’t understand why Oly is pushing it’s hi end m43 cameras toward the “bigger & heavier”.
A camera doesn’t need to be big & heavy to handle well, look a the nex-6.
The E-P5 is high-end and comes in a small body with great controls…
…the E-M1 body is designed to mount a 35-100mm f/2. Good luck finding a lens like that for your NEX-6.
Once I strap on the 35-100 f/2, I might as well just stick with my DSLR. This was the same exact issue the original 43 system had. Hooray for those who kept their 43 lenses, but this camera is not going to expand Oly’s market.
Except that nobody makes 70-200/2.8 for a dslr is as good of a lens as the 35-100/2
Really unsexy. I said the same for the galaxy nx camera.
Why don’t they all go the route of gx7, for mirrorless cameras? That’s a gorgeous camera from the aesthetic point of view.
Totally agree. I like the E-M5 as well, but this thing looks a bit like the awful looking GH3. Just another DSLR looking camera.
A Fuji X100s it aint.
How it performs is what matters. I could care less about what it looks like. I buy cameras to create photographs, not impress other people.
Are people really buying cameras just to impress people?
Photographers are generally creative people with an eye for aesthetics.
Commenting on the looks of a yet to be released camera is as valid for aesthetic reasons as has IBIS is for technical reasons. A comment on looks is probably not the only criteria that most would consider when purchasing a camera – don’t you think?
Unfortunately, I do have to agree. It’s not much for looks. I’ll hang on to my current OM-D since none of the new features are that meaningful to me. Hopefully the follow up to the E-M5 will take after it.
ha! Seems like Oly could recoupe a few yen in profits with a nice lawsuit. Otherwise yay! Another wannabe Micro Four Turds abomination
Why do you even bother to post? Maybe if you focused on using the cameras you have and enjoy you would be satisfied with your photography and spend more time having fun than just posting negative crap on online comments?
Have hate to say it but it’s butt ugly. I wonder what sort of files this thing is going to squeeze out.
Right now I’m loving m4/3 cameras – fast sharp primes wide open – small, light and more than good enough in terms of picture quality. I wouldn’t be interested in this camera though because it looks too big and bulky.
I didn’t know photographers purchased cameras based off of how it looks.. I thought only hipsters and yuppies did that.
I didn’t either.
“Speca are also known. It’s basically an E-P5 with VF-4 viewfinder and has the body of the E-M5 with the E-5 grip. You can’t explain a new camera in a shorter way than that ”
You also can explain this camera as that, because your explanation omitted the headline feature – the support for PDAF with fast autofocus of Four Thirds lenses with just a simple adapter.
Hope it has IBIS and a decent 24p and 25p video mode. Then I may forgive it’s looks and size.
Your link to the OMD EM1 is a bad link bringing you to a spamming site- please correct or remove it.
The size is deceiving. its no bigger than an e-m5 with the grip on. It’s quite similar in size to the old e-5xx olys which were considerably smaller than its aps-c contemporaries. In fact, the e-5xx is a bit smaller (ignoring the grip of course) than an e-p3 with an evf attached.
this move by olympus is quite telling. I don’t think they are going to build a pro lens line up for m43. Enabling pdaf essentially resurrects their 43 lenses whose hg and shg lineups are remarkable. However, like what has been mentioned above, those lenses aren’t exactly small. It’s probably geared to 43 faithfuls who wont be getting an upgraded e-5 (which is so much bigger btw). I think this is a good alternative because its small enough to pass as a m43 camera but beefy enough to handle the older (big) lenses.
Regarding pro-use. While I’m no pro, I don’t think sensor size alone dictates what a pro should be using. So unless you need razor thin dof, I see no reason why other fully featured cameras can’t be pro gear. dr and noise are issues but they are not as big as an issue as a few years go.
This, along with gx7, the new 42.5 1.2 and the upcoming 2.8 zoom by oly brings excitement to the m43 community. The upcoming FF NEX is also very interesting. Cheers!
This camera is great news for owners of 4/3 lenses! Great news also for those who found the EM5 a bit too small.
The Pana GX7 is greate but late.
I think mirrorless is not really developing at the moment, it is more about consolidation.
I own a Fuji EX1. Image quality wise it slots in between my D800 and my sold off Sony RX100 – but closer to the RX100. The responsiveness is a problem as well as unintended change of settings.
I wait for a FF mirrorless that could replace both my D800 and EX1. I fear that the upcoming NEX FF may satisfy on image quality but usability will be not for advanced users.
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Do you have any information on the Samsung NX30 mirrorless camera that is supposed to come out this year? Thanks!
If this is an accidental leak…then I am the queen of england.