Sad Used Prices for EM-1 first edition

Chippy99 wrote:

Tom Caldwell wrote:

My E-M1 had evf “blobs” (developed within months of ownership) which were fixed with the dodgy back wheel (as supplied). The repaired wheel survived but despite careful use the blobs eventually returned.

Not careful enough, obviously. I've had my E-M1 since launch and had no problems with it whatsoever. I am careful not to let the sun shine through the EVF however, which takes only an atom of thought/effort. Maybe it's easier in the UK since it's rarely sunny

I think that you are quite right - the sun in Australia is frequently quite hot enough to literally fry eggs on a car bonnet.  Not only that but we often get weeks on end without a cloud to be seen.  The UK would fit over a map of Australia somewhere south of Tasmania.  Glasgow is about the same as the “uninhabited” Macquarie Island in the Antarctic region ....

My response to the evf burn issue is that I have a number of Panasonic camera bodies with evf and it is always set to my eyesight on the dioptre - so there cannot be a dioptre setting issue.  Furthermore I use all my camera bodies in similar use-type in similar places.  Not one of my Panasonic camera bodies with evf have ever shown evf screen burn even when used in the hottest, brightest, sun-scary conditions.

GM5, GX7, GX85, GX9, G9 (the latter shows the largest and clearest evf in the business).

I was supremely paranoid after the first screen burn issue on my E-M1 and for a while I used a self invented blind to cover the eyepiece.  After a while I decided that 1) There had been some issues with the original evf, and 2) Olympus probably had found a way of fixing the issue by the time when they made the repair.

In fairness there are a number of small pinprick burns that I only notice when I go looking for them.  Hardly worth fixing - but they are there. The previous issue burned so severely that they simply could not be ignored.