New Pen F thoughts

BluenoseNS wrote:

Henry Richardson wrote:

Henry Richardson wrote:

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

Oh, and also the E-M5III has weather-sealing. That is not particularly important for me though. Read this:

Weather-sealed gear and lens front element

https://www.dpreview.com/forums/post/63420694

Yeah none of my lenses are weather sealed and I have used them on the ocean with my pen ep5 no worries

If I was shooting under conditions that would require weather sealing I would be worried about getting water on the front lens and ruining the picture anyway

Happens in the rain all the time.  No way to avoid it easily.  Most pro shooters using Nikon and Canon you see with plastic slung over their cameras, but it's not practical if you are walking around.  If the lens is longer than 50mm, you can fashion a longer hood to shroud the front element/filter.