E-M5 lockup problems

grendak wrote:

zuikowesty wrote:

I have now had several cases of lockup on my E-M5, sometimes resolved by power off/on, other times by removing the battery. Since I have never seen this in 5 years with my E-410, I am a bit worried.

There seems to be two ways to reproduce it:

1. Changing lens with power on. I've never worried about this before, but with my E-M5 it has sometimes caused a black screen required a power cycle to restore function.

2. Plugging in USB cable with power on. If the camera is not in sleep mode, the red SD card icon will appear, but it will not connect to the PC. A power cycle usually fixes this. If the camera is in sleep mode, pulling the battery is usually required.

Page 80 of the E-M5 manual does indicate that the camera is to be powered off when connecting the USB cable, but this is the first Olympus camera I have used that actually seems to require this. All others including the E-PM2 and E-410 will work fine with the camera on, and in all models with a push button power switch, connecting USB will turn the camera on if it is powered off.

Am I the only one to have this issue? Is everyone else doing it by the book, or do I have a flaky E-M5?

Page 6 of your manual also cautions you to make sure the camera is off when attaching a lens. Sounds like as long as you don't do what you are told not to, your camera won't lock up...

You are correct, thanks. This is not stated in the E-410 manual, however, which makes me wonder if this is a difference in the FT vs MFT specification.

I will be more careful, and watch for further lockups not caused by having the camera on when adding/removing devices.