E-M5 II Hi-Res vs E-M1 II Hi-Res image IQ.. What are the differences?

TomFid wrote:

David wrote:

Hi everyone,

I love printing the images I've taken with my E-5, E-1 and E-P5 and so far, they look great when printed big. Lately, I'm intrigued by the Hi-Res feature of the E-M1 II and the samples I have seen are actually quite good and detailed despite showing some small artifacts which I don't think will show on the print sizes I plan to make -- 16x20 to 24x36". There are some scenes I have taken in the past with my E-5 and E-P5 that I would had wished it were taken with Hi-Res. I'm mainly interested in Hi-Res mode for urban scape and landscape and I'm well aware of the Hi-Res limitation.

So my question is -- how is the E-M1 II any better than the E-M5 II in regards to Hi-Res aside from the 80MP files it generates? Even the 64MP ISO 100 shots taken with the E-M5 II is cleaner than those taken with my E-P5.

Any thoughts and any samples you can share here if possible?

How about prints? What sizes have you printed up big thus far and do you see any artifacts..

The reason I'm interested in the E-M5 II is that, it's getting affordable buying it used or as a demo from a store.

My experience with the EM5ii is that HiRes gets you a smaller increase in linear resolution than the 2x you'd expect. For example, with the 12-40, the increase might be 50% over a normal capture. This makes sense, because you're coming up against lens limitations. I'd guess that the EM1ii is not immune to this, so you might get 60% over an EM5ii normal capture. The EM1ii is apparently more graceful in handling subject movement, which seems like a bigger advantage than the move from 64 to 80 mp.

I totally agree with you that it won't be a 2x increase as I expected, but still it looks better than a 16MP capture.  I wish I can see more Hi-Res samples of the E-M5 Mk II online that I can evaluate, but there are few and far in between.  The ones I see for the E-M1 Mk II are quite acceptable compromise (with artifacts with subject movements) for printing.  Am I too optimistic in expecting that the E-M5 II will have artifacts much less worse than the E-M1 Mk II?

Thank you!