E-P5 shutter shock ...

Anders W wrote:

Polariser wrote:

Pete_CSCS wrote:

I want to keep this E-M1 for a long time. Love it!

I want to keep my E-M5 as well but using a defective camera for serious photography is just not on.

Defective? I bought an E-M5 two years ago well aware that there might a problems of this kind (since there were threads about it early on). Due to the laws of physics, any camera with a purely mechanical focal-plane shutter suffers from SS, just more or less so. And while my E-M5 certainly shows blur due to SS, I am not sure it has any more of the problem than the Pentax K100D and the Panasonic G1 I used before it. However, my awareness of the problem and my ability to recognize it has certainly increased in the meantime.

my awareness of the problem has led me to lose faith in Olympus and my em5!

I, for one, am looking to jump ship to another brand: either Fuji or Sony who have electronic first curtain on most of their models.

Sony? Yes (at least on most/all E-mount cameras and on the A7 but not A7r). Fuji? Not not to my knowledge.

http://www.dpreview.com/forums/post/53000964

thanks for this .. it narrows my choice even further. I was considering an XT-1 but now it's down to the Sony A7 (and hopefully the A7 Mark 2 in September).

Olympus has admitted that there is a problem by releasing the FW update … so now they should either follow through for the older models or expect a deluge of defectors.

You are of course free to jump ship as you see fit. But personally, I think it's to Oly's credit that they have now provided a solution to a problem that is by no means specific to Olympus cameras. Moreover, the fact that the latest Olympus bodies now all have EFCS strongly suggests that future Oly bodies will have it as well (until the global and purely electronic shutter is finally reality). Consequently, I personally see no reason at all to "jump ship" on account of this. What would the motivation be?

disappointment in a company I had great faith in I suppose.