OM-D EM10 MkIII S - what's different?

iasea73 wrote:

Someone else just mentioned this, and low and behold it's a thing - the OM-D EM10 MkIII S. Seems the big change is that silent mode is now available in P/A/S/M and art filter modes. Is there anything else different?

Here's a link to the manual .

Interesting when the MkIV release is just around the corner.

Well-found on the manual link (I looked earlier today and didn't find it).

Physically, the difference is in the badging (silver-on-black IIIs badge on the lower front, only marked E-M10 ahead of the power switch) and it has the control dials of the Mark IV by the looks of it (extra row of knurling on the front one, black insets in the tops of the silver version).

As you say, the major change is the reinstatement of the silent mode (full electronic shutter) in PASM and Art Modes.

Like the E-M10 Mark IV and the E-PL10, it also has the individual setup choices to allow TTL flash use with the electronic shutter (like them, at up to 1/20, which handily tells us the scan speed of the electronic shutter), to re-enable the beeper, and to re-enable the AF illuminator (both for silent shutter, since earlier 16MP models automatically disabled all these features in silent shutter mode - though some of the more recent ones did allow manual flash control for special modes like focus bracketing and so forth).  These re-enablements had been standard on the 20MP models from the Pen-F onwards, so are also found on the E-M1 Mark II, E-M5 Mark III, E-M1 Mark III and E-M1X (these PDAF models have a maximum flash sync of 1/50 in silent shutter mode, whilst the Pen-F was 1/20). The E-M10 Mark IV is also 1/20 like the Pen-F (maybe a sign it uses a similar 20 MP sensor).  Up till now, the E-PL10 was the only 16MP to have these tweaks, now the E-M10 Mark IIIs joins it.

Looks like it's gained the new Instant Film art filter also included on the E-M10 Mark IV and the E-PL10.

Strangely, it does NOT have the fully-automated in-camera stitched panorama mode of the E-PL10 (and E-M10 Mark IV), but sticks with the version on the original E-M10 Mark III, which requires stitching in Olympus Workspace. That surprised me, since otherwise all the additions are exactly like the ones that differentiated the E-PL10 from the E-PL9.

That's from a quick read through - I might have missed something...!