E-M5 sometimes annoys, maybe get an E-M10?

Martin Ocando wrote:

As I was reading your post, I pulled mine from the bag, checked the 1 minute sleep setting, let it sit in my desk, and waited. After a minute, the sensor made the usual thump! and off it went. Stopwatch App in my iPhone at the ready, tapped both the screen and shutter button, and screen reappeared in 00:00:60 secs. So, I'd say half a second is a pretty accurate figure.

Thank you for checking that. Months ago I requested that dpreview time it for their reviews, but I don't know if they have started to do that.

in fact, I did it a couple times more, and the number was around that. I even pressed the shutter all the way, set MF first, to avoid focusing when waking up, and it started shooting right away.

Thank you. If I was in Tokyo I could easily check another store, but I am not in Tokyo now so there aren't many places around here to check it and the ones that do probably have it are not nearby.

I believe the unit you handled might have been a display unit that had sleep disabled, in some way. I can see no other option to disable sleep mode using the menu.

Yes, that may be the case. I don't know how they can disable it except in the menu and I checked that it was set to 1 minute and not off, but maybe there is another hidden way known just to Olympus people and store people. Of course, I know that sleep mode works on the E-M10, but for some reason I couldn't get the one in the store to go to sleep.

This single issue would be enough, I think, to get me to buy an E-M10 at the current under $500 price. The better, less fiddly buttons, MySets on mode dial, built-in flash, 0-second AS, etc. all add up to a pretty good upgrade to my E-M5. I am mostly satisfied with the sensor, resolution, and other performance aspects.

Since the E-M5 II is expected to be announced next month I will probably hold off just to see if there is something that we don't know about it yet. In addition, I don't have any big trips planned for the next month or two so my E-M5 will be fine for awhile longer. Also the E-M5 II price is not known yet. Right now all I have heard is 40mp for static subjects (jpegs or raw also?) and better video. I don't care about either one of those. I expect that it will also have the other small things that the E-M10 has (MySets on mode dial, 0-second AS, etc.). Maybe built-in flash, maybe not. Will the ergonomics have big improvements? I suspect only ergonomic tweaks so probably not much better than the E-M10.