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 .
So jealous!

Larry, did you actually get a black body only??? Or the kit?

Would love to get my hands on the little guy next week--fingers crossed and Nokton 25 at the ready.
 
mabelsound said:
So jealous!

Larry, did you actually get a black body only??? Or the kit?

Would love to get my hands on the little guy next week--fingers crossed and Nokton 25 at the ready.
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Fingers crossed, B&H will be sending emails tonight or tomorrow and maybe, just maybe....
 
So it's the left-hand (as you hold the camera) that is shrunk; hmmm. Size may not be so bad, but I would want to re-skin it immediately. That surface is UG-LEEEE!!!!
 
plummerl said:
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Thanks, Larry (and Robert too).
I bet you guys helped a lot of people in their considerations.

As we can see:
1. The right hand side where we usually hold and operate the camera isn't that much shorter
2. Plus it has the contoured grip section
2. And that grip section is actually taller than its counterpart on the old OM
3. The addition of the thumb-rest in the back

All these should make the handling easier and more comfortable. Probably except for those with very long fingers which would clash with the self-timer when using OM anyway.

So I don't buy the line of thought that OM-D is too small.
If you can use an OM comfortably, you will do fine with OM-D.

Even if that were not the case, getting the grips (mentally or literally :D ) should solve the problem nicely.
 
mabelsound said:
So jealous!

Larry, did you actually get a black body only??? Or the kit?

Would love to get my hands on the little guy next week--fingers crossed and Nokton 25 at the ready.
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Yes, I got the body with 12-50mm. I decided to show the three Olys with the same lens (50/1.8) mounted (my collection of body caps for the OMs) to give a better size comparison.
 
Got one last week, and I was shocked at how small it was. Honestly, I was a little disappointed that it was so small! I did get over it after handling it with the Panny 20/1.7, which is a great tiny stealthy combo.

Here's a shot with the Nokton 35/1.2 which dwarfs the OM-D body:

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Posted these in another thread but thought it might be helpful here too...

With the Nokton:


Mavis + Elian by The Johann Espiritu™, on Flickr

With the 20/1.7:


Tailed (Again) by The Johann Espiritu™, on Flickr

and with the Leica DG Summilux 25/1.4 which I just got yesterday:


Blur by The Johann Espiritu™, on Flickr


Outside by The Johann Espiritu™, on Flickr

A lot more test shots on my Flickr if you're curious...:)
 
I think Olympus must be looking after their smaller retailers.
Shutterbug here in Santa Rosa had two OMD kits - they now have only one left :)

While I'm impatiently waiting for the battery to charge, here are three ways of getting to a normal field of view using Summiluxes.
 

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Is the battery, or better, a less expensive third party battery, showing up yet in the US?
 
Paul Luscher said:
And why do we think only a sensor as big as the old 35mm film frame can produce a "good enough" image? Isn't that retrograde thinking?
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People have been saying that about smaller film formats for decades, it's just that every time a better film came out 35mm simply benefited from it. Can't see how sensor technology is any different, is this camera significantly smaller than the compacts with the APS-C size sensors?
 
ajuk said:
People have been saying that about smaller film formats for decades, it's just that every time a better film came out 35mm simply benefited from it. Can't see how sensor technology is any different, is this camera significantly smaller than the compacts with the APS-C size sensors?
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whats so absurd to me about this argument is how quickly 'state of the art professional IQ' changes. what was it, maybe 3-4 years ago when the global pro standard was the 5d? last year my x100 outproduced it at and over iso800! cmon now, when are we going to stop with these 'size' concerns? in every sphere of endeavor, that is exactly what techology overcomes:size! the march of technology means both smaller AND better. most of us, myself included, dont have the slightest clue about IQ's relationship to sensor size beyond the most meaningless platitudes. so lets all get off that train and enjoy the IQ we're going to get from this new olly sensor. instead of pretending to engage in arguments about which we know very little, lets instead concentrate on what we all DO know: what we SEE.
tony
 
I'm not sure if anyone has pointed this out, in 19 pages of responses, but OMD did in fact recently release an album and have been gigging etc. quite regularly again. Not that I'm recommending them, understand.
 
shadowfox said:
For those who has been using the system for a couple of days, any comments on the thumb rest?
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Thumbs up from me ;-)

I carry the camera on a wrist strap and the thumb grip helps with the carry.
Without the thumb grip, to hold you hand in place, I think it would be way too easy to accidentally move the focus points which are mapped to the 4 way pad.

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Plunging back into the sensor size brouhaha again, even though some of you are sick of it:

All I know is that I've been shooting an Olympus E 3 with 4/3 sensor for four years, and I've been pretty happy with the results. That's why can't buy into this idea that a sensor has to be "big" to be good. Really, size doesn't ALWAYS matter...

Otherwise, all I'll say is that I envy you who've gotten your EM-5s already. Preordered mine some time back,and I'm still waiting....
 
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