I agree with Millstart - the grip makes all the difference in the world with the EM5. In landscape you have a firm handle rather than the slickery hump Olympus put in the EM5's body. In portrait you have two extra programmable buttons and a really fat, comfortable grip - at least fat for the EM5. The grip is still pretty small, doesn't make the camera unwieldy in any way - its very different from a DSLR with a grip. Its basically the perfect size camera for me. I always have at least part of the grip on my camera and usually it has both pieces attached. It does sting a bit when it essentially makes the EM5 a $1300 body, but I like it more than anything I could get (buying new) at that price - including the Nex7. If only silver was available when I bought mine...
Nice! Is that a Nikkor 70-200/2.8 VRII with 2x teleconverter in the background? Will you be adapting it? Be sure to post some crops here, I am curious about that combination as well.
tmark wrote:
The menu help seems to say that all of the arrow buttons can be mapped to different functions, but I only seem to have the option to map two of them ... am I missing something silly ?
No only two of the arrows can be remapped according to the manual.
carstenw wrote:
Nice! Is that a Nikkor 70-200/2.8 VRII with 2x teleconverter in the background? Will you be adapting it? Be sure to post some crops here, I am curious about that combination as well.
me too. I expect it to be working well. It might also be working well on the N V1 from Nikon - there even with AF.
Interestingly the Mpixel per sensor area numbers of OMD, NEX7 and V1 aren't all that different: 7.11 / 7.31 and 8.62 Mpix per cm2.
Pixel Perfect wrote:
Yeas it seems US is worse than Australia. I got lucky and my local camera shop had two in stock.
I didn't pre-order and I was willing to take any available camera as this is my first m43 camera. I just checked Amazon, B&H, Adorama, Samy's, J&R and so on with a bookmarked search for EM-5, and right after the camera started shipping a 14-42 w/black body showed "in stock" at B&H so I bought it immediately. I had one in hand a week after its release date. I've seen them on Amazon from time to time too. Its a great at work time killer...
You're best bet would be with Cameraland in NY. They quoted me 2 weeks and I got it delivered in ONE week. Very consistent and at least something you can pretty much count on. I got the silver kit with the 12-50 lens and a FL-600R flash along with the 75mm-300 zoom. I got the 45mm f1.8 backordered but will probably show in a week or so.
Has anyone pre-ordered the OM-D with Olympus directly? How does the promotion or special offer work? It says that you have to purchase the rebate-eligible accessory at the same time as the OM-D. So if you pre-order with say B&H or Amazon ... and they ship the camera to you first and the adaptor say 2 weeks later, are you still eligible for the rebate - as your invoices will show different dates? For this reason I am wondering if I should pre-order with Olympus instead of elsewhere - so I have proof that I had pre-ordered both items "at the same time". And do I have to pay CA tax if I order from Olympus?
Does anyone know/have the best or most direct email addy to Olympus, to ask about this issue (IBIS in video-mode for adapted/non-native lenses), and request a firmware fix
I think if we could get a big group going and emailing them..I am sure they will notice and hear us out.. and might even fix the problem. (heck, it worked for Canon 5d2 back in the day; and if anyone was hard to move and make notice, it was Canon)
1. IBIS in video-mode for non-native lenses is #1
2. 24p and higher bitrate is a close second
I have the Pany 20 f/1.7, Oly 45 f/1.8, and Oly 12-50. Granted it's not as fast, I think the 12-50 is a bit underrated lens just because it's a kit lens. I was surprised how sharp it is. Olympus really put quality into this lens. Love the power zoom function.
traveler wrote:
You're best bet would be with Cameraland in NY. They quoted me 2 weeks and I got it delivered in ONE week. Very consistent and at least something you can pretty much count on. I got the silver kit with the 12-50 lens and a FL-600R flash along with the 75mm-300 zoom. I got the 45mm f1.8 backordered but will probably show in a week or so.
Their delivery time depends on what you are ordering. They quoted me two weeks, and that was 3.5 weeks ago. I am getting a black body, so those must be shipping slower than the kits.
Here is an update to the Dandelion chip (a convo between me and another person, from another forum):
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"Well I had a conversation via email with the guy Viktor (most likely Viktor Lushnikov the developer of the chip) from Russian site filmprocess.
He is a man of little words, bu I think he understood me OK.
He stated that it should work fine. It works very well on his E-P2.
He also said he is not planing on getting the E-M5 cause it is very expensive in Russia and he cant get one of testing. If would send him the body he could test and correct the error if there is one. (not gonna happen, I love it to much, and shipping from Croatia to Russia must be killer)
I asked if he could test it on any newer Olympus camera cause maybe the new ones are different somehow. Hi didn't answer that. :-/
He went on to imply that I possibly did something wrong. But since it looks to me I mounted the chip flawlessly it makes no sense for me to try and mount it again.
I will order another copy and try again. maybe this one was bad somehow...
I am grateful for his answers, but unfortunately they don't help much to resolve this.
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Ya, he just replied back to my email and told me similar things - they are very expensive and rare in russia. And, that the best/simplest way to correct/fix/update this, is if I/someone sent him over an OM-D body and he said it wouldn't take too long. But, I am obviously a bit hesitant to do so, since my OM-D is finally coming in this week and of course I would be too excited to just send over my brand-new-camera I am prolly going to instantly love and have been anticipating and waiting to finally get, hehe
I know many might feel the same way, hesitant to send over and lend their beautiful OMD... but maybe there's someone out there that's willing to lend him an OMD for a little bit. Most likely not me though, as this is my only, singe camera in my possession....perhaps someone whom owns multiple/many cameras, collectors or a photo/camera-blog writer, like Huff or something?
So...if there's someone out there, here, that is willing to lend him your camera, so he can fix the Dandelion chip and update it and make it compatible with the OM-D, please email him:
..whomever lends him your OM-D, will be a hero amongst us and we all would owe you a humongous debt of gratitude....probably hundreds, if not thousands, of OM-D users for time to come.""
Edit: Viktor said he could have it done very quickly and send back the body in 1-2 days after he receives it. I may just send over my own body..unsure yet, but thinking about it
In case anyone is interested in playing with a raw file, I am posting one with a lot of difficult detail and decent range of tones. Feel free to play with it:
www.beyondthematrix.com/P5260030.ORF
Not posted because it is great art, but for those wanting to check out a raw with lots of fiddly bits in it it might be good. 20/1.7 at f/5.6, ISO 200, 1/250 second. http://www.beyondthematrix.com/P5260030.jpg
It might also be working well on the N V1 from Nikon - there even with AF. 
