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So, I joined the club by picking up the OM-D E-M5 today. Haven't made any pictures yet -- only put on the 12-50 kit lens, inserted a battery and memory card, and started looking at the menus. I handled the camera in the store a couple of times before buying to make sure I can live with the camera and never noticed the noise that some people have commented on. But it sure was the first thing I found out at home! Well, the second thing. The first thing is that this camera is not just small. It looks tiny beyond its measurements without the zoom lens on it and it's not exactly enormous with the lens on either.
But that noise is something else. With a desktop computer and a/c running in the same room, I can quite easily locate the camera by noise only from about 2-3 metres away. Ridiculous. The noise should be masked in most environments, but it makes me wonder what the average age of the Olympus engineering team really was. That old look must come from somewhere. 😀
Okay, it's terribly noisy. Big deal. It should not be much of a problem in my use, and no one seems to complain much about it.
Next thing is to get some smaller lenses and adapters. And possibly the grip to balance this excessive tininess. The ergonomics of the OM-D so far seem good to me, but it has that usual small camera feature of revealing I was born with one or two fingers too many per hand. When size is the main issue, you just need to suck it up, but for general use the camera could benefit from some extra bulk. Too bad the grip is not cheap, good thing everyone says it is well made. Oh, the eyecup could also be much better, but I don't think I will try to change or modify it.
But that noise is something else. With a desktop computer and a/c running in the same room, I can quite easily locate the camera by noise only from about 2-3 metres away. Ridiculous. The noise should be masked in most environments, but it makes me wonder what the average age of the Olympus engineering team really was. That old look must come from somewhere. 😀
Okay, it's terribly noisy. Big deal. It should not be much of a problem in my use, and no one seems to complain much about it.
Next thing is to get some smaller lenses and adapters. And possibly the grip to balance this excessive tininess. The ergonomics of the OM-D so far seem good to me, but it has that usual small camera feature of revealing I was born with one or two fingers too many per hand. When size is the main issue, you just need to suck it up, but for general use the camera could benefit from some extra bulk. Too bad the grip is not cheap, good thing everyone says it is well made. Oh, the eyecup could also be much better, but I don't think I will try to change or modify it.