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New Pen F thoughts

Started Dec 29, 2019 | Discussions thread
Henry Richardson Forum Pro • Posts: 21,959
PEN-F vs. E-M5III
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The Silver Fox wrote:

However, serious question: Is the Pen-F worth buying now that the OM-D EM-5 mk3 is out?

The E-M5III has just a few things over the PEN-F that may or may not be important to you and at the same time Olympus has quietly removed some firmware features which also may or may not be important to you. The main update is PDAF which is mostly for better C-AF.

Personally, PDAF is not particularly important to me. There have also been reports that the 20mp sensor has somewhat worse high ISO than the PEN-F 20mp sensor. My PEN-F doesn't have PDAF, but I never use C-AF and it does not have the crippled firmware of the E-M5III.

A few other smaller things such as very slightly better IBIS are also included and better video. It has a plastic body which may or may not matter to you. I don't use video so I don't care about that.

Read through this thread to see what has been quietly removed from the E-M5III firmware:

https://www.dpreview.com/forums/post/63339096

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