douglasf13 wrote:
Informal EVF comparisons also need to be taken with a grain of salt, because, often, users will use them in varying light conditions, which can make one EVF seem better than another.
freaklikeme wrote:
The E-M5, 12/2, 25/1.4, and 45/1.8 (or 2.8 Macro) look like they would make a sweet set up. I just wish Oly or Panny would concentrate on making a kick-ass 17mm.
For me that is the one big missing lens. Make a 17mm f/1.4 or even f/1.8 the size of the 25mm or smaller with the quality of Olympus's other recent primes and the m4/3 lens lineup will be complete for me as a second system, although that upcoming 75mm f/1.8 looks pretty sweet.
When Panasonic finally finish those f/2.8 zooms it would be a complete system period for my use.
"...new users may well find it bewildering; the E-M5 has one of the longest menus we've ever seen."
Hopefully something to be changed b4 release...
"In amongst the excitement about the E-M5's 5-axis IS system, one other feature has generally gone unremarked - the ability to activate IS with a half-press of the shutter button, which allows you to see the effect in the viewfinder just like working with a stabilized lens. It's a really helpful feature, and one we hope will be helpful for manually-focusing adapted lenses where magnifying live view exaggerates hand-shake.
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Bifurcator wrote:
Hopefully something to be changed b4 release...
Nice! I might actually even use it then!
The menus are really long because there's so many different functions and options, as has been the case with other Olympus cameras. In practice once you set them up for your shooting patterns then you very rarely have to dig into them.
freaklikeme wrote:
The E-M5, 12/2, 25/1.4, and 45/1.8 (or 2.8 Macro) look like they would make a sweet set up. I just wish Oly or Panny would concentrate on making a kick-ass 17mm.
I find the 12mm overpriced and the 25mm too large. Wish they would make a compact relatively fast 25mm.
I just saw that today and along with the new Olympus official samples on their home market site (portrait of girl with yellow background), this camera is starting to really look like something special.
With E-M5 Olympus is introducing a new feature to set exposure and expose an image. They call it Live Bulb and Live Time. It is maybe best understood if you think about fireworks. You press release button once and shutter opens. You can see firework going up but now you can see itīs fiery path developing in OLED monitor. You watch the firework explode and grow bigger in monitor, and when you like it best you press shutter button again to close the shutter. Now, you actually have seen and know what kind of image you got! Only OLED monitor can be used here, not EVF.
There are still some technical limitations which mean what you see is not totally live. The monitor canīt be refreshed faster than every half a second. Also the number of refresh counts is limited to 25 (ISO 200). This means that with half a second refresh rate your exposure time is limited to 13 seconds. The maximum exposure time is 30 minutes with slowest refresh rate. All these parameters can be set in a menu....Show more →
Tariq Gibran wrote:
I just saw that today and along with the new Olympus official samples on their home market site (portrait of girl with yellow background), this camera is starting to really look like something special.
Two stops improvement in dynamic range over the E-P3, pretty impressive! DR has always been the weakest point of Olympus cameras. This is great news.
I'm leaning toward the E-M5 over the NEX-7 at this stage. Better lens line-up, better AF and good improvements in IQ and DR make it look like a great system. Also price is pretty good.
I agree that I'd like to see a really nice 17/18 f/1.4 or at least a fast 12-35 f/2 zoom.
Pixel Perfect wrote:
I'm leaning toward the E-M5 over the NEX-7 at this stage. Better lens line-up, better AF and good improvements in IQ and DR make it look like a great system. Also price is pretty good.
I agree that I'd like to see a really nice 17/18 f/1.4 or at least a fast 12-35 f/2 zoom.
