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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
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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.
This is the digital camera Olympus should have made on day one - a true successor to the range of OM 35mm cameras. Like its film predecessors, the OMD is compact and elegant with brilliant optics. With an adaptor, the OM legacy lenses can be fitted but t...
Published: 2012-05-24, Author: terry , review by: dpexpert.com.au
Image quality is superb. Even at high ISO settings there is little noise and no noise reduction smudging. In RAW the pictures are even better. Ergonomically it is a delight and aesthetically it is gorgeous.
There is a constant low level whirring noise – like a tiny fan – from the image stabiliser. We could do without that
This is the digital camera that Olympus should have made on day one – a true successor to the range of lovely OM 3...
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Abstract: The camera body will be offered in black and silver and has the same Micro Four Thirds (M4/3) sensor and lens mount as the PEN models but features an integrated eye-level viewfinder and dust- and moisture-resistant magnesium-alloy body, like the E-5. Whil...
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
The photo quality is solid, but not outstanding, especially if you shoot only JPEG
Can a classic camera inspire a digital masterpiece? In the case of the Olympus OM-D the answer is yes, with updates to its feature set and a snappy performance....
Excellent viewfinder, Tilting touchscreen, Customisable dials and buttons, High image quality at low ISOs, New art filters
Plastic unresponsive buttons, No inbuilt flash, Odd (sound) emitted
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Published: 2012-10-17, Author: Ben , review by: alphr.com
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