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

TomFid wrote:

David wrote:

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!

I'd shoot one for you, but my EM5 is in for service.

I find that I don't use HiRes much, because I shoot landscapes while hiking and I don't carry a tripod. What I do a lot of, though, is stitching of bracketed images. That works well, because you can shoot handheld, and it gets you up to pretty big prints (as long as you don't mind a pano format, or complicated stitching). I generally use LR's photomerge to first stack the brackets to HDR, then assemble.

Hi, yes that would be greatly appreciated if you can...

My purpose for the Hi-Res mode was to shoot a number of Hi-Res 64MP RAW images at different focus distance and stack them together to get a wider depth of field using the Helicon Focus software.  I'm doing that with 12MP and 16MP files with Helicon Focus and the results and prints are absolutely stunning.  My understanding is that, the E-M5 II can do Hi-Res with Focus Bracketing.  And then, all I've got to do is feed the 64MP RAW converted TIFF files into Helicon and voila.

I've done some stitching of bracketed images, but that would mean I have to bracket multiple frames and distances which would create even more work for me.  Which is why the Hi-Res mode is quite appealing to me.  I also read somewhere that blending the Hi-Res images together would smooth out the artifacts or take 3-5 Hi-Res and blend them together via Photoshop would do the same.