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 .
shadowfox said:
There is a lot of things to like with the new OM-D.

Is it good enough for you? Just no interest, GF1 works fine in a pinch if I do not want to use one of the other cameras.
Is it enough to sway you from your previous bias towards the smaller sensor? (smaller, not tiny) I have no bias towards the smaller sensor, just no interest in the OM-D.
Is it just another pretty body without substance? Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and I don't plan on holding it.
Is it the answer to your dream? You would have to do a lot better to answer my dream.

Vote and chime up.
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. . . . . but hey, whatever floats your boat.
 
For all the "amateur" and "professional" pi$$ing contests, even the casual observer would see the obvious----- that everyone looks at their cameras differently.

I preordered an O-M5 because it fits a niche.

It's not "perfect"--no camera is and I don't expect it to be.

Why I bought one:

(1) My wife needs a replacement for her Canon S90 for digital family photos and videos to post on the internet.The E-M5 is simple enough and is a big upgrade for what she does with her camera. It will function well as one of our "walking around" + vacation cameras.

(2) I have a number of OM lenses and cameras. In particular, attaching the E-M5 to my OM 350/2.8 will give me 700mm and 980mm(with 1,4X extender) equivalent focal lengths for occasional bird/wildlife captures.(A lot cheaper than buying 700-1,000mm FF lenses.)

The image quality and wide end aperture functionality of legacy OM lenses will be improved on a mirrorless E-M5 m43 compared to the E-5 43 camera.

So, it just fits what we need, and in an attractive package.:D

But it won't be used much for printable group portraits, landscapes,or panoramics.

Texsport
 
shadowfox said:
Yeah, Olympus products brings out the emotional parts on both camps :D
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Nothing brings out the extremes in both narrow minds and open minds more than a new camera from Olympus. Hardly anything in the middle.

Having been a loyal OM user Since the early 70's, I was open minded to their DSLR E300. When I saw the colors, I was committed and have been shooting Olympus now for 40 years. Would have been even happier if they had stayed with Kodak sensors throughout. Also open to the micro system, purchasing and E-PL1. Sharpest OOC jpgs I have ever shot, and closest to my film SLR OM's.

I love to read almost every post in OLY threads. They are very laughable. I suspect that every positive post has used either film or Dig Olys before. I suspect that most negative posts, a majority of the posters have never shot either Olympus.

Don't get me too wrong here. I've owned FF and crop Canons, and four various crop Nikons. Pooh. I gave them a chance.
 
One thing I wll say for Olympus, their cameras have always had CHARACTER--both in the film SLR era, and now in the digital era, too. Pentax is a distant second in this category, and Canon and Nikon and everyone else far behind.

(I'm not counting Leica here, who are sort of in a class of their own...)
 
I'll buy one only after (a) my current period of unemployment ends, and (b) I get to try one out and verify that the EVF and manual focusing work sufficiently well in low light for my purposes.
 
There's no way. I think it's ugly. I'm waiting for a FF that looks like a OM-1. Waiting, and waiting, and waiting...
 
n5jrn said:
I'll buy one only after (a) my current period of unemployment ends, and (b) I get to try one out and verify that the EVF and manual focusing work sufficiently well in low light for my purposes.
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As an Olympus/Zuiko fanboy, I will also state that I won't buy until I've had it in my hands and evaluated the EFV with an OM System lens. As for low light, I have no doubts in that regard.
 
Trius said:
As for low light, I have no doubts in that regard.
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The last time I played with a micro-four-thirds camera in low light, the EVF, while bright, had a completely unacceptable lag time and refresh rate in low light. (In normal light, it seemed just fine.) I don't care how bright the image in the finder is, if it's not live or so close to live that I cannot perceive the difference, forget it!
 
In my experience, when the light is too dim for an optical finder, the EVF brightness more than made up for any lag/refresh.
 
digitalintrigue said:
In my experience, when the light is too dim for an optical finder, the EVF brightness more than made up for any lag/refresh.
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If you never manually focus and only shoot static, immobile subjects, perhaps. Manually focusing a macro shot of a flower on the forest floor of a coastal rain forest on a gloomy overcast day, then waiting for it for it to momentarily stop waving in the breeze is not a pleasant prospect to me if there's an appreciable lag in the finder image. In fact, it sounds darn near impossible. No thanks.

Regarding the whole concept of "too dim for an optical finder" -- I've composed moonlight landscape shots with an optical finder just fine.
 
I was thinking of ISO/image quality in low light, not EVF performance. Plus, I don't have need to manually focus moving subjects in low light. Until grandchildren arrive. :D
 
Re; n5jrn's comment about the refresh rate. I'm not sure about the benefit in low light but the new VF has a 120 per sec. rate while the older VF-2 is 60 per sec.
 
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