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E-M5 II owner looking for upgrade. G9 or E-M1 II w. 12-40 and 40-150 lenses.

Started Oct 1, 2018 | Questions thread
Michael Meissner
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Re: E-M5 II owner looking for upgrade. G9 or E-M1 II w. 12-40 and 40-150 lenses.

OlafOleOlaf wrote:

Something to consider, but others need to chime in on this: It's my understanding that an Olympus firmware update information speaks of supporting this or that Panasonic lens, it means it supports that lenses inbuilt image stabilization.
Oly themselves currently have two stabilized lenses but they stabilization is currently not supported on Pana bodies.

Olympus cameras since the introduction of the original E-m5 mark I have an option that says use sensor shift stabilization or use lens based stabilization.  I believe the E-m1 mark II will support using both the 12-100mm's and 300mm's stabilization along with the sensor shift stabilization.

However, Olympus doesn't support using both sensor shift stabilization and the lens stabilization found in many Panasonic lenses.  I presume it would fall back to the option of which stabilization method you choose (i.e. sensor shift only or lens only).

My G85 will use dual stabilization when I use Panasonic lenses with stabilization.  The G85 doesn't have an option to choose between sensor shift stabilization and lens stabilization like the Olympus cameras have.  I believe it uses the lens stabilization over the body stabilization.  I recall from reading Kirk Tuck's blog that the GH5S (which has no sensor shift stabilization) will work well with the 12-100mm.

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