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Michael H wrote:
Okay, speaking of first impressions, I have a bit of a like.dislike problem with the E-M1 EVF.
Is the color cast normal? I can't seem to adjust it to provide accurate colors. The rear LCD looks fine, the images look fine but the EVF has a pretty prominent blue cast to it. I was able to slightly improve it with some tweaks in the menus but still not quite what I would expect.
Is this normal? How accurate is your EVF?
I have two E-M1s and one thing is clear : Olympus doesn't care for proper display calibration. None of the four displays are similar, although there is a tendency for the EVFs to be a little greener than the rear LCDs (but to varying degrees, one is greener than the other is greener than the LCDs, which aren't roughly similar either) - something which unfortunately can't be properly corrected because Olympus only half-arsed the colour correction by only providing a yellow / blue tint slider and not a green / magenta one. Apparently Olympus hasn't yet be stricken by the idea that it might not be totally idiotic to provide decently calibrated displays with a device which main purpose is to take pictures. As it stands my iPhone has a much better calibration.
Actually, I'm disappointed in Olympus' manufacturing tolerances. Although the most important thing (sensor to mount alignment) is similar with the two bodies, their buttons or dials give me a substantially different haptic feedback to the point that I have to be constantly aware of which body I'm using to mentally adapt (for example, on one of them, the front dial is easily turned but very clicky, very positive, while on the second one there is a friction resistance to the turn but the clicks are almost unnoticeable meaning that I constantly "overshoot" the adjustment target), one of them has a somewhat faulty SD card door (it doesn't click as positively as the other one, and it needs to be pushed further than the clicking point to be properly closed), although typically the kind of thing Olympus would say is "within manufacturing tolerances", one of them has a slightly finicky rubber port cover that has to be put in a certain way to allow the LCD to fully close, and, of course, the aforementioned issue with LCD calibration. Ah, and one of the two bodies had to be exchanged because it had a dead pixel on the LCD from he start.
And that's without taking into account lenses. I initially bought two Olympus lenses, the two had to be exchanged for severe decentering. Only one of the replacements was correct. I then went through seven 25mm lenses, four of which were rubbish.
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