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Reviews of Olympus OM-D E-M5

Testseek.com have collected 169 expert reviews of the Olympus OM-D E-M5 and the average rating is 85%. Scroll down and see all reviews for Olympus OM-D E-M5.
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The editors liked

  • Very good photo quality (though best results are achieved by shooting RAW)
  • Wellbuilt
  • Weathersealed metal body with a retro flair
  • Fiveaxis
  • Sensorshift image stabilization system
  • Beautiful 3inch articulating touchscreen OLED display with 610
  • 000 pixels
  • Plus a large and sharp EVF
  • Full manual controls
  • With lots of white balance options
  • Five kinds of bracketing
  • Realtime tone curve adjustment
  • A cute little camera that's packed with features and offers excellent image quality
  • Appealing body design
  • Smaller camera is easy to hold and quite small
  • Battery grip makes the E-M5 feel like a tiny professional camera
  • EVF works well
  • Tilting OLED touchpanel display
  • Water resistant body
  • Advanced in-body image stabilization
  • Excell...
  • A dust-and-weather-sealed design distinguishes the Olympus OM-D E-M5 from the rest of the interchangeable-lens crowd
  • And its class-leading performance doesn't hurt
  • Either. Plus
  • It's got an interesting
  • Relatively streamlined shooting design
  • Excellent image quality
  • Very good metering
  • Reliable Automatic WhiteBalance
  • Superb builtin stabilization
  • Virtually no shutterlag
  • Fast contrastdetect AF
  • Good shottoshot speed
  • Very responsive
  • Excellent automatic Manual Focus Assist
  • Unique LiveBulb m
  • Outstanding image quality
  • * Highly customizable feature set
  • * Compact design
  • * Wide selection of accessories and lenses
  • * Weather resistant body
  • * Art Filters add fun factor
  • * Good macro mode on 12-50mm zoom
  • * Fast autofocus and burst mode
  • Good images and video
  • DSLRlike feature set
  • Compact
  • Stylish form factor
  • Compact body. Fully weather sealed. Crisp LCD EVF. Articulating rear display. Sharp kit lens. Impressive high ISO performance. Fast autofocus. Shoots at 9 frames per second. In-body stabilization. Large native lens library. Optional grip available.
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  • Excellent image and video quality
  • Blistering performance
  • Extremely attractive
  • Great battery life
  • Superior image quality
  • Even in low light
  • You can really push ISO without sacrificing resolution
  • Durability
  • Very powerful auto-focus and image stabilization technology
  • Very good image quality
  • Even at high ISO
  • Bright
  • Punchy JPEGs make the most of camera's capability
  • Very fast autofocus with most Micro Four Thirds lenses
  • Weather-sealed body
  • Built-in image stabilization helps increase number of sharp shots (in single-frame mode)
  • Good level of direct control despite small body
  • Tilting OLED screen very good
  • Large amount of control over image parameters
  • A
  • Incredibly fast autofocus5-axis image stabilizationManual/auto-zoom kit lens
  • Tough weather-sealed build quality
  • Outstanding High ISO noise performance
  • Great quality viewfinder and tilting OLED touch-screen
  • 5-axis image stabilisation which works with any lens
  • 2
  • 3
  • 5 and 7-frame auto bracketing.
  • Lovely design
  • Premium build
  • Solid performance and great images

The editors didn't like

  • Occasional underexposure and highlight clipping
  • Tiny
  • Cluttered button layout makes it way too easy to accidentally press the wrong one
  • OLED display difficult to see outdoors
  • AF system tends to "hunt" when recording movies
  • "Hiss" from IS system may bother some folks
  • No builtin flash (though included external flash is pretty good)
  • Movies cannot be edited incamera
  • Full manual on CDROM
  • Just never felt comfortable shooting with it
  • Price
  • $999 (body only
  • In black or silver)
  • $1
  • 299 (black or silver body with black M.ZUIKO Digital ED 1250 mm f3.56.3 EZ lens)
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  • Odd power switch location
  • Exposure compensation dial changes easily
  • Can't be turned off
  • Small buttons
  • EVF proximity sensor sometimes activates unexpectedly
  • Moderately high chromatic aberration from 12-50mm kit lens
  • No in-camera chromatic aberrati...
  • The photo quality is solid
  • But not outstanding
  • Especially if you shoot only JPEG
  • Poor color accuracy
  • Lowcontrast EVF
  • Not always ExposurePriority and frequently wrong LiveHistogram
  • Modal ExposureCompensation
  • Some tiny buttons
  • Uncomfortable eyelets
  • Poorly placed tripod mount
  • Low battery life
  • Rear controldial uncomfortably high
  • Menu system can be daunting
  • * No built-in mic adapter
  • * Small buttons can be difficult for large fingers
  • * Soft humming noise when powered up
  • Price when rated
  • $1000 (body only)
  • $1300 with 12-50mm 1
  • 3.5-6.3 zoom lens
  • Costly bodyonly configuration
  • Grip and lenses add expense
  • A 2x crop factor doesn't lend itself to wide angle shooting
  • External flash. Lacks a standard mic input
  • No builtin popup flash. Can't change exposure settings while shooting video. Shallow eye cup diminishes the EVF's effectiveness in bright outdoor situations
  • Expensive for a Micro Four Thirds camera
  • Smaller sensor than most $1
  • 000-plus cameras
  • Button design
  • No pop-up flash – accessory only
  • There can be some in-camera digging before you get your customized settings up and running
  • Focus tracking distinctly unreliable
  • Image stabilization not effective for continuous shooting
  • Small controls sometimes awkward (especially with cold/gloved hands)
  • No in-camera correction of CA (which can be problematic with 12-50mm kit zoom)
  • Default JPEG settings a bit keen to blur detail away
  • Several useful features hidden in obscure and confusingly-named menu options
  • Otherwise useful H
  • ExpensiveBattery meter issues at launchPoor focus accuracy in low-contrast scenes
  • Screen only tilts and there's no touch functions in movie modes
  • Distracting whirring noise from stabilisation motor
  • No built-in mic socket
  • Flash unit clips-on rather then being built-in
  • Continuous AF not as consistent as a phase-detect system.
  • Base ISO of 100 would be welcome

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  Published: 2012-05-23, Author: Сергей , review by: 3dnews.ru

  • Идеальных устройств не бывает, и Olympus OM-D E-M5 это лишний раз доказывает. Камера довольно тяжёлая, а ее корпус мгновенно притягивает к себе мелкую пыль. Сглаживание элементов меню при выводе в видоискатель проработано плохо, не хватает разнообразия ...

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  Published: 2012-05-03, review by: onfoto.ru

  • Прочный корпус из магниевого сплава, Всепогодное исполнение корпуса (а также объектива MZD ED 1250/3.56.3 EZ), Новая пятиосевая система оптической стабилизации очень эффективна – как для фотосъемки, так и при видеозаписи, Ультразвуковая система очистки ма
  • При установке на штатив блокируется доступ к аккумулятору, Шум от системы стабилизации изображения, даже в выключенном состоянии (хотя достаточной тихий, практически не слышный на видеозаписи), Нет входа внешнего питания, Нет внутрикамерной коррекции хром

 
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  Published: 2012-03-21, review by: zoom.cnews.ru

  • Zoom.Cnews.Ru → Статьи → Первый взгляд на беззеркалку Olympus OM-D: флагман в стиле ретро Первый взгляд на беззеркалку Olympus OM-D: флагман в стиле ретро 8 февраля компания Olympus анонсировала новую камеру из семейства Micro Four-Thirds. И это не п...

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  Published: 2012-02-22, review by: hi-tech.mail.ru/

  • Позже я обязательно сделаю полный обзор конечного образца, но многое ясно уже сейчас. Безусловно, решение возродить OM-D и разделить свою беззеркальную линейку на два сегмента – имиджевое, чистой воды маркетинговый ход. E-M5 – это тот же PEN, просто «в ма...

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  Published: 2014-05-14, review by: rozetka.com.ua

  • Признаюсь, Olympus OM-D E-M5 – это лучшая гибридная камера, которую мне приходилось тестировать, но, к сожалению, и самая дорогая. О мелких недостатках даже говорить не хочется, их с лихвой перекрывает высочайшее качество снимков и видео, в том числе при ...

 
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  Published: 2014-05-16, review by: metro.se

  • Abstract:  Varför ska jag köpa en kamera just till jul? För att du kanske vill kunna ta finare bilder av tomtar och tindrande barnaögon än vad du kan med mobilen. Och för att du kan göra klipp – för handeln är det en viktig försäljningsperiod och därför anstränger ...

 
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  Published: 2012-08-28, review by: M3.idg.se

  • Abstract:  Traditionella systemkameror har en optisk sökare där du ser motivet genom objektivet via en spegel. När du tar en bild fälls spegeln upp så sensorn kan fånga bilden. I en spegellös kamera har du varken optisk sökare eller spegel. Istället är sensorn ig...

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  Published: 2012-08-04, Author: Lasse , review by: ljudochbild.se

  • Mycket bra detaljskärpa och bilddynamik, Blixtsnabb autofokus, Hög HD-videokvalitet
  • Okänsliga knappar på baksidan, 330 bilders batteri
  • Olympus har kanske byggt årets mest kompletta kamera. E-M5 har nästan inga brister av betydande slag, och bildkvaliteten är bäst i klassen. Allt är nytt, inifrån och ut, och den höga funktionsnivån lär tilltala krävande fotografer som ställer höga krav på...

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  Published: 2012-06-30, review by: kamerabild.se

  • Bilderna som OM-D producerar är riktigt bra. Faktum är att Olympus verkar ha skärpt sig när det gäller bruskvaliteten på hög känslighet – bilderna som vi ser ligger nämligen i toppskiktet bland kameror med fourthirds-sensor.Det som kameran i övrigt har...

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  Published: 2012-06-30, review by: fotoguiden.se

  • Abstract:  Ett nostalgiskt utseende som ska bäras med stil. Nya retrodesignade Olympus OM-D överraskar på flera punkter. Riktigt snabb autofokus och seriebildstagning, blandat med moderna kontroller och roliga funktioner gör den här kameran till en kraftfull kam...

 
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