Are you going OM-D?

Are you going OM-D?

  • O yeah, here's my pre-order confirmation!

    Votes: 36 10.4%

  • You bet! just have to de-GAS a few gears to fund it

    Votes: 23 6.7%

  • Positively, but only when it hits street price level

    Votes: 65 18.8%

  • I don't know, I like it, but won't my APS-C buddies shun me?

    Votes: 50 14.5%

  • Heck no! I won't be caught dead with a dinky m4/3rd camera

    Votes: 110 31.9%

  • OMD? Are they coming out with a new album?

    Votes: 61 17.7%
  • Total voters
    345
  • Poll closed .
Hard to pass any judgment on that test since there is nothing that tells us how well the E-M5 images hold on to detail after NR is applied.
 
cmedin said:
Hard to pass any judgment on that test since there is nothing that tells us how well the E-M5 images hold on to detail after NR is applied.
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That *may* only matter if everyone applies NR to most of their pictures.
I certainly don't, and I'm pretty sure I'm not alone in this.
 
I shoot in RAW and don't know how to apply NR. At some point I do want to get proficient in this whole digital thing, but so far so good I guess.
 
shadowfox said:
That *may* only matter if everyone applies NR to most of their pictures.
I certainly don't, and I'm pretty sure I'm not alone in this.
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Well, what I meant is that those particular sample images do not show if there is an excessive amount of NR killing details while making the images less noisy. They look quite clean, but since there is no real detail (just big splotches of color and black) it could be NR cranked to hell and beyond just smearing everything out.
 
Why would they want to? Canon and Nikon pretty well have that market overwhelmed, with Sony/Pentax/etc. coming in behind.

Olympus has done well with the mirrorless niche, this is an extension of the same.
 
ajuk said:
If this camera has such a great sensor, why don't Olympus put that sensor in an SLR?
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For all intents and purposes, the OMd is pretty much an SLR. For it's size though, the mirrorless adaptation allows it to have MUCH smaller lenses, MUCH larger viewfinder, and smaller overall size. It looks like their AF is faster than they ever achieved with a true SLR too.
 
gavinlg said:
For all intents and purposes, the OMd is pretty much an SLR. For it's size though, the mirrorless adaptation allows it to have MUCH smaller lenses, MUCH larger viewfinder, and smaller overall size. It looks like their AF is faster than they ever achieved with a true SLR too.
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For static subjects, but contrast detect AF is still at a disadvantage compared to phase detect AF for anything that moves, so I would expect it to still lag behind when it comes to tracking.

Mind you, I have had one on pre-order since it was announced, and am quite excited about it, but as with any camera there are trade-offs involved.
 
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