Anyone go from E-P5 to E-M10 II?

Allan Brown wrote:

hockey guy wrote:

Allan,

What do you mean by the flicker in the EVF?

In what way will the E-P5 be faster?

Thanks.

Some people can see the EVF flickering, others can't. I'm one who does see the flicker.

The flicker has been talked about many times on this forum and in a couple of reviews. It is a function of the OLED panel in the EVF. It is not a function of artificial light as I also saw the flicker when outside.

I was one of the first to notice the flicker when I was testing the camera in a store when it was first introduced. It was a promo by Oly and they had several bodies available. I saw the flicker on all the EM10 II's but not the EM5 II that I tested at the same time.

There are no internal settings that can remove the flicker as others have also noted.

Look it up in this forum.

For me, this was a deal breaker as the flicker can induce migraines.

As for speed: I also have an EM5 II. From turning the power switch ON, the EP5 is alive and taking photos while the EM5 II is still waking up. Various other camera operations are also faster on the EP5 compared to the EM5 II. This is quite noticeable when I am out and about with both bodies.

Again, this has been mentioned here on this forum by others.

Olympus introduced a firmware update to address this but with little effect.

Allan

Interesting - I didn't know about the previous posts from 2015 about the EVF flicker and have never noticed it with my EM-10 Mark II (I purchased mine about a year ago). I tried in vain this morning to see any flicker in the EVF but as always just a rock steady display for me - inside, outside - anywhere I have tried. I do understand about people being more sensitive to flicker though as my daughter always said she saw flicker in certain TVs but I didn't, so that maybe why I don't have any issues. Or maybe Olympus have done some changes since the launch, either in hardware or firmware (I have the latest firmware).

On my EM-10 Mark II (latest firmware) with the kit pancake zoom it takes 2 seconds from switching the power on (with the power switch) to being ready for a photo which I find very acceptable - it's a bit quicker than that from sleep mode (when you just touch the shutter again to wake it up). Not sure if this is quicker or slower than the EM-5 Mark II or the E-P5 or not though.