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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.
Award: Most Awarded April 2012
April 2012
 
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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: 2012-06-07, Author: Antoni , review by: swiatobrazu.pl

  • świetny design, nawiązujący do analogowej serii OM, szczegółowość obrazu, nienaganna jakość wykonania i ergonomia, uszczelniana obudowa, pokrętła trybów, programowalne przyciski, możliwość dostosowania sprzętu do własnych potrzeb, opcjonalny uchwyt pionow
  • nienajlepsze menu, śledzenie AF przy niedostatecznym oświetleniu, Aparat do testu udostępniła firma Olympus Polska. Dziękujemy.
  • By uniknąć powielania trzech identycznych przymiotników w jednym akapicie: E-M5 to kapitalna ergonomia, design i jakość obrazu. Nowy Olympus OM-D dysponuje cechami, których u konkurencji nie znajdziemy tak łatwo. Jedynym realnym przeciwnikiem dla...

 
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  Published: 2012-05-14, Author: Antoni , review by: swiatobrazu.pl

  • Abstract:  Podczas oficjalnej premiery bezlusterkowca Olympus OM-D E-M5 było jasne, że japoński producent nawiązuje do swojej serii 35-milimetrowych analogów OM. Na nowy aparat można jednak patrzeć dwojako - albo jako "unowocześnioną" wersję tradycyjnych urządzeń, a...

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  Published: 2012-04-16, Author: Szymon , review by: optyczne.pl

  • dobra jakość obrazu w szerokim zakresie czułości, wysoka rozdzielczość obrazu, zakres tonalny przy niskich czułościach na dobrym poziomie, solidna obudowa i uszczelniana obudowa, wyjątkowy wygląd stylizowany na stare analogowe lustrzanki, bogate, czy
  • brak wbudowanej lampy błyskowej (choć zewnętrzna dostępna w każdym zestawie), stosunkowo niska moc lampy błyskowej dodawanej w zestawie, wyraźna zmiana kolorystyki obrazu na wyświetlaczu w zależności od kąta patrzenia, wyraźne odbicia w wyświetlaczu po
  • Budowa, jakość wykonania i funkcjonalnośćW tej kategorii E-M5 wypada bardzo pozytywnie. Jego obudowa w przeważającej części została wykonana ze stopu magnezu, zatem aparat robi wrażenie solidnego i wytrzymałego. Niewątpliwą zaletą nowego bezlusterkowca Ol...

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  Published: 2012-03-26, review by: chip.pl

  • Wysoka rozdzielczość, Bardzo szybki autofokus, Szeroki zakres dynamiki, Odporność na wodę i pył
  • Zewnętrzna lampa błyskowa, Wierność odwzorowania detali
  • W modelu OM-D E-M5 Olympus doprowadził do perfekcji rozwiązania, które wcześniej widzieliśmy w modelach z serii PEN. Aparat oferuje wysoką jakość obrazu, nie ustępując pod tym względem wielu lustrzankom i bezlusterkowcom z większymi matrycami APS-C, choci...

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  Published: 2012-02-22, Author: Jarosław , review by: swiatobrazu.pl

  • Abstract:  Bezlusterkowiec Olympus OM-D E-M5 to nie tylko uzupełnienie serii PEN i aparat kierowany do bardziej wymagającego odbiorcy (głównie za sprawą wbudowanego wizjera EVF oraz solidnej, uszczelnionej obudowy wykonanej ze stopu magnezowego). To przede wszystkim...

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  Published: 2012-05-10, Author: Tomáš , review by: e15.cz

  • Olympus OM-D E-M5 kvalitou obrazu a především svým funkčním vybavením i množstvím přímých ovládacích prvků si klade za cíl posunout laťku v kategorii bezzrcadlovek. Přesto obsahuje také režim chytré automatiky a scénické režimy, určené méně zkušeným fotog...

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  Published: 2013-07-19, Author: 梁爽 , review by: xitek.com

  • Abstract:  本官买em5的目的主要是看上它强大的防抖,手持用来长焦拍鸟,近距拍虫不用三脚架。拍活物需要灵活性,等按上三脚架活物早跑没了,所以手持是最方便了。本地实在找不到鸟,倒是能不时见到虫子,手中有几只老尼康微距头,正好用来拍虫。象甲论坛原帖地址...

 
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  Published: 2012-10-10, review by: digitalone.com.sg

  • The user interface is friendly and easy to manipulate, and there are both dial and touchscreen controls,
  • Mini flash is too small for taking pictures at night.
  • The results are remarkable - you can get sharp, colour-rich pictures with amazing detail....

 
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  Published: 2012-04-23, review by: digitalone.com.sg

  • Excellent build quality; relatively small size; fiveaxis image stabilisation works really well; improved ISO performance over the EP3,
  • Price is a tad prohibitive.
  • It's fair to say that Olympus has come up with their best Micro Four Thirds camera yet....

 
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  Published: 2013-08-08, Author: FLOW , review by: steachs.com

  • Abstract:  FLOW 其實一直以來都很喜歡 Olympus 的色調,尤其拍近物、街景特別有味道,去年就一直關注著 E-P3 和 E-M5,但一直沒有下手,一方面是覺得用手機拍即可以應付生活需求,另一方面是第一次買微單覺得要再更謹慎點,拖著拖著一年也過去了XD,不過,必須得說一年後,我仍舊覺得自己是特別喜歡 Olympus 的色調,才堅決了我購買的決心。加上手機能拍出的有限,看著身邊的朋友能拍出很漂亮的照片總是很羨慕,所以就自己跳下來了,一起來看看 FLOW 的開箱吧。把 E-M5 的盒子才剛擺好,「大大」立刻好奇的湊...

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