DPReview.com is closing April 10th - Find out more

Pen-F : the best Olympus ever for image quality ?

Started Apr 28, 2017 | Discussions thread
Steve_
Steve_ Senior Member • Posts: 2,876
not exactly proven

I have GH4 (EM1 sensor) and EPL5 (Em5 sensor) and the GH4 sensor is better. not worse. Dynamic range is better and you can really see that instantly when shooting side by side under testing conditions. And nighttime shots of noctilucent clouds uo to 10 s were better on the GH4 compared to EPl5. But the longer exposure problem is correct but it only seems to appear after 15 seconds.

DxO also show GH4 sensor (hence EM1) to be slightly better than EM5.

There's a lot more to GH4 vs EPL5 than sensor. Expecting to extrapolate the EM5 vs EM1 results from it may not be valid. And you'll have to pardon me, but I'm not overwhelmingly motivated by DXO's results.

I have and shoot an EM5 and EM1, and although the difference really isn't field-relevant the EM5 appears a bit better at 2:1 inspection of the RAW in Lightroom, and has essentially equal DR. By the time you make a JPG, though, you can't notice any difference.

 Steve_'s gear list:Steve_'s gear list
Olympus OM-D E-M5 Olympus E-M1 Panasonic Lumix G Vario 7-14mm F4 ASPH Olympus Zuiko Digital ED 50-200mm 1:2.8-3.5 SWD Panasonic Lumix G 14mm F2.5 ASPH +13 more
Post (hide subjects) Posted by
(unknown member)
(unknown member)
(unknown member)
(unknown member)
Keyboard shortcuts:
FForum PPrevious NNext WNext unread UUpvote SSubscribe RReply QQuote BBookmark MMy threads
Color scheme? Blue / Yellow