Aussies - E-P5 again

The market has to rationalise. Olympus is not well placed to have too many models all fighting for space.

The OM-D line is now more or less established with three levels of camera. There's a natural progression where someone entering with the E-M10 can either go to the E-M5 and then the E-M1, or jump straight to the E-M1.

The Pen line needs to do much the same and I suspect that it can only sustain two levels, two versions of the Pen-F, a high end and a lower-end model. The Pen line has to provide cameras with an EVF, as that's what everyone else is doing so, at the end of the day, the E-P line has to end.

Boss of Sony wrote:

Nice IQ and attractive but unfortunately extremely tedious to use

Tedious? I don't get that. I find it extremely easy to use.

, and not really adequate as a video camera.

For adequate video then buy a good video camera.

Why not spend a bit more and get a more recent camera with a built-in EVF,

I only use the screen now. But I'm speaking for only maybe 10% of the users here. The rest of the world uses smartphones with no viewfinder, so it can hardly be regarded as an essential item.

better IBIS,

The 5 axis IBIS always delivers 4.5 stops and on occasion up to 5.5 stops, so that's good enough for me.

proper video implementation,

As I said, get a video camera. The smaller sensors on video cameras make for less AF hiccups.

and even possibly a less confusing and time-wasting menu system.

The menus are fine once used a bit. In my case I have set 4 useful MySets on the Mode dial and now I rarely use the SCP and just about  never use the menu system.

My friend has an E-P5. It looks very nice, but one of the dials stopped working after a little use.

Warranty fix in my case and it still is good a couple of years later. Anyway, that doesn't stop the camera from being used as it's easy to revert back to button adjusts like the E-PL1 until the dials are repaired.

Regards....... Guy

Guy Parsons wrote:

Elliot H wrote:

Guy Parsons wrote:

Elliot H wrote:

didn't the ep5 have a shutter shock problem?

Fixed with a firmware update where they introduced zero second anti-shock, and it works for me, never seen shock yet - until I turned off zero sec anti-shock one time as an experiment.

that's good, but doesn't that delay the shutter, thus slowing down shot to shot etc?

Claimed to be 1/40 second delay but I've never missed any action due to it. It all feels normal.

Regards.... Guy

Excellent!