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E-PL6 firmware update

Started Feb 7, 2016 | Discussions thread
Guy Parsons
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Re: E-PL6 firmware update
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Roger Wiseman wrote:

I just updated my firmware to 1.3 and it says that this provides compatibility with Olympus lenses with ios, I don't currently have any OLY lenes with ios. What does this update do?

It is to accommodate the only Oly lens so far with OIS, the 300/4.

Also, and this is more important to me now, does this work with Panasonic lenses with ios?

Yes, the old rules for the E-PL5 (same camera mostly as E-PL6) are on my page.

http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~parsog/olyepl1/50-epl5-comments.html#stabilisation

That was tested with 14-45mm with OIS switch and with the unswitched OIS 45-150mm.

My E-PL5 also had that update but I have not gone back to check whether the rules have changed now for that as well. But I cannot see that anything would change except for the Oly 300/4 which probably by default on those cameras had the OIS always disabled until this update.

On some other bodies (like the E-P5) the update enables the OIS and also combines that with just the roll correction function of the 5 axis IBIS. But no roll correction on E-PL5/6 so possibly the rules still look the same as before for E-PL5/6.

Regards...... Guy

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