My Olympus EM1 froze today

Hi Jeff,

Thanks for the reply. Sure, not upgrading is the safest option, in this tight time-frame case. I have heard that the v4 EM-1 is the best for C-af, and locks onto initial focus faster than anything before. This is critically important for whale work.

Before buying my third body for backup on these trips, I went with a visiting friend who is a Canon expert and rented a brand new 70D body and a nearly new 75-200 and 100-400, both IS and L, and we went shooting for a weekend. While that combo seemed to catch initial focus faster that my E-M1 and 75-300 Mk 2, upon review of the images, there were no more keepers from the Canon system with either lens. Following week, I returned to the rental shop, showed my results, and tried different individual copies of the body and lenses, and found almost no difference between these and the ones I rented, and that's what led me to stay with what I know. I have gotten some very fine whale breach shots with my OMD kit, so I'll just stick with what I have.

I am looking forward to faster initial focus grab and the sync of OIS and IBIS on my Panny lenses, but I will likely either only upgrade one body or none until I return.

I had several freezes before updating to FW 4.0, but no more faults since I did the update.

Mine froze for the first time today. Had to take the battery out to get it to start working again. I'm also on firmware 4.0. Hopefully this doesn't become a common occurrence. I've still got warranty, but I'd rather not go through that hassle.

Every time after doing firmware update, myE-M1 suffered some kind of glitch. A programmed function button would not work, for example. I have learned to do a full reset immediately after every FW update. That seems to have done the trick.