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 .
I will get one when the price drops right before the OMD-2 comes out.....so I guess I will wait for about 7 months.
 
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yes I'm getting this and the xpro1, and keeping the x100.
different things for different uses, the m4:3 will replace my DSLR and will be taking over from 40mm and longer, or when fast AF is needed, or just for the pleasure of using the 12/2.
The x100 stays mainly for the quiet shutter and pocketable size and will continue to come with me everywhere.

I'll wait a bit to see how well the xpro1 performs with M lenses and when I finish with that kit I'll start thinking m4:3. I just like their range of lenses too much (and their hoodies :D), and I want to try some long and fast FD glass on it for portraits :)
 
In many ways this is a far nicer looking camera than the X100 IMO ... though I guess I am a little biased by how much I love the OM series generally.

I don't currently have a decent small digital camera to take places ... this is very high on my list.
 
......damnit, i want this camera so bad. as much as i love my E-P2, i am so ready to retire it and replace it with this.

.....but at the same time, i really want a 5D Mark III/X. sigh....
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nighstar said:
......damnit, i want this camera so bad. as much as i love my E-P2, i am so ready to retire it and replace it with this.

.....but at the same time, i really want a 5D Mark III/X. sigh....
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Oh man do I know that feeling.

Love my x100, but really want the x-pro1.
Love the look of the e-m5, but don't need it and either one of the above cameras at the same time.
Want 5dx badly, but might not need it if x-pro1 is good.

I'm not usually obsessive over cameras like this, but it appears right now there might actually be too much choice!
 
So some here are coveting the trifecta it seems!

I wouldn't say no to the Xpro or the X100 or the OM-D ... but all three in the kit seems rather excessive to me. :D
 
It's still a camera with a 4:3 aspect ratio. As I use 3:2 90% of the time I had to crop 90% of my photos. Not the smartest thing to use such a camera then.
 
Thanks for the link. Here's a related one

Thanks for the link. Here's a related one

Henrik said:
Unfortunately not, it's from a preview (in swedish) at http://www.fotosidan.se/cldoc/en-dag-med-olympus-om-d.htm
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Most of Google's translation of the preview is comprehensible :confused:, and I could make out more thanks to my rusty German :rolleyes:.

All of the photos were shot at a recent press preview in Amsterdam, both the E-M5 samples and the 2 EOS 5D MkII shots of the camera. Unfortunately, they are all at 25% or lower resolution. :(

Here's another report from the Amsterdam press preview with more photos: http://www.letsgodigital.org/en/31987/olympus-om-d-test/ ;)
 
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It's still a camera with a 4:3 aspect ratio. As I use 3:2 90% of the time I had to crop 90% of my photos. Not the smartest thing to use such a camera then.
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i in fact hate 4:3 aspect ratio. but if the camera can crop the photos for me, which my E-P2 and certainly the E-M5 can, then i really don't see why the native aspect ratio of a camera matters. i suppose what would matter, if you are really concerned about lost megapixels, is how much resolution is retained after in-camera cropping, but that is a non-issue for me.
 
tom.w.bn said:
It's still a camera with a 4:3 aspect ratio. As I use 3:2 90% of the time I had to crop 90% of my photos. Not the smartest thing to use such a camera then.
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Same here, 4:3 is not a shape I get along with.
Dont quote me on it but I think that panasonic m4:3 cameras as opposed to Oly M4:3 actually have a variable aspect ratio, ie the sensor is slightly bigger than the image circle, therefore when you select 3:2 the image aspect ratio changes but the diagonal stays the same and you dont lose any pixels.
could be talking out of my a** now but I remember reading about it somewhere. I know the LX3 was like that.
 
nighstar said:
i in fact hate 4:3 aspect ratio. but if the camera can crop the photos for me, which my E-P2 and certainly the E-M5 can, then i really don't see why the native aspect ratio of a camera matters.
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it matters, because if the conversion to 3:2 is done by cropping your lenses are simply not as wide anymore.
 
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