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Panasonic OIS compatibility on Olympus bodies?

Started Feb 24, 2018 | Discussions thread
Guy Parsons
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Re: They went backwards
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Holistic Photog wrote:

Guy Parsons wrote:

With all the usual confusion I finally made a page that shows how Panasonic OIS lenses behave on various Olympus bodies...... http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~parsog/olyepl1/30-oly-stabilisation.html

From E-PL5/E-PM2 onwards the rules are good, before that the rules were bad, except for E-M5 Mk1 if updated to V2.2 where it joins the later rules bunch. My timeline also has some additional stabilisation info...... http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~parsog/olyepl1/80-Oly-timeline.html

Regards..... Guy

Not supporting OIS lenses with no physical switch is a step backward and probably more an attempt to bite into Panasonic lens sales than anything else.

Bad move IMO.

Yes, that decision rates as totally 100% stupid.

They have gone backwards by 6 years to do that.

In the case of the E-M5 Mk1 they eventually updated its rules to handle unswitched OIS properly, it's just so simple to do the same for the E-M10 Mk3 (right now!) - make it a normal Oly camera, not some crippled "beginner's" camera.

In dumbing down the E-M10 Mk3 they went just a few too many steps too far.

My main beef is that this camera is not an E-M10, it is something else. Their old naming standards from last century would have called it maybe an E-M1000.

Regards..... Guy

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