Why the OM-D is not a great camera!

MadManAce wrote:

I have this camera and I mastered every aspect including the famously disliked menu system and I do like the camera for the obvious reasons such as image quality, size, lens selection, etc. However, when I use my SLR, the SLR's usability blows it the OM-D away. The OM-D is a software upgrade away from being a great camera with only three easy to do cability wing

1. Be able to change the focus points to a smaller size. It miss focuses far to often on subjects that are mid to far distances away. And no that little trick of having the touch screen magnification zoomed to 14x is not the same. Make any menu change and it goes back to default, making one repeat the steps again. Plus doing this also creates around a 100 new focus points which make it a hassle to change in a hurry.

2. Focus peaking: the limelight trick is not the same. One has to jump loops to get it to work (setting custom myset and losing a function button) or deleting the jpegs. Besides I'm not impressed with its ability to actually nail focus. The Sony NEX-5n is a dream to use with legacy lenses.

3. Renaming MySet for obvious reasons.

Three little changes would make this the ultimate camera. Until this happens I will not buy more into the system (backup bodies, flashes, etc.) and I will exclusively use my SLRs for professional work. Talking with other pros with OM-D expierance and they have the same sentiment. Why a financially strapped company does not hurry up and fix these glarring flaws is beyond me. There is still room for improvement on the next release such as 1/8000 shutter speeds, 100 native ISO, AF-C, etc, where it would not eat up sales.

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I do not start many threads and I don't care for reading the same old whining threads, but I wish 4/3rumors website actually had an inside track on the market. But they don't, they are basically a wishing site with news releases. Because they claimed back in December that Olympus was going to release a big firmware update and that never happened. Sorry for putting such a pointless thread that will never actually make a difference.