E-PL8 vs E-P5 in 2018?

ageminmo wrote:

I have searched the forum but it was also comparing PEN-F to these two, of course most people prefer PEN-F. Unfortunately, as much as I love the PEN-F, it is too big for me. If price is not a problem, what would you advice me to get?

I am thinking that E-P5 is better because of its 5-axis IBIS? Or it is worse than E-PL8 since it's IBIS is outdated? I also don't plan to use EVF.

And I am also not interested in panasonic bodies, I recently bought a used e-PL5 just to test the waters and I was fascinated by olympus colors (compared to my GM1/GM5).

The E-P5 has as good an IBIS as anyone needs for general photography, that coupled with f/2.8 zoom lenses has allowed me to stop carrying tripods on holidays. I can reliably get 4.5 stops of stabilisation, and on one occasion 5.5 stops reliably, but seem more like 4.5 now being a little older. Stabilisation depends mostly on the user, so we all get different results.

The much needed zero second anti-shock was added with a firmware update.

The E-PL8 does have the interesting Live Composite, where the E-P5 has the earlier TruePic chip so misses out, it still has Live Time though, but I never seem to use it.

The E-PL8 uses the same batteries as the E-PL5, the E-P5 uses a different battery, the one used in most of the OM-D models.

Some other details on my Timeline page http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~parsog/olyepl1/80-Oly-timeline.html

Some help with E-P5 menus at http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~parsog/olyepl1/56-ep5-custom-menus.html where I've "translated" the manual a bit better.

As for me, happy as ever with two E-P5 and nothing since then has had any attraction for me. Mainly as I use tilt screen only and can't handle those flippy out sideways things.

Regards......... Guy