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.

There is another feature worth mentioning, and I didn't had the impression I would use it too much, thus I keep using it more and more every day. WiFi. Not only for shooting, which is a godsend for being really sneaky, and for selfies, but the ability to, right after shooting, import some images to my iPhone and share them. Right in the spot.
If you remember my Panama Old Quarter thread, the last few pics where taken by my daughter tripping the camera shutter from my phone. I'd never imagined such technology would be so easy and convenient.
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Martin Ocando
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