I may be getting ahead of Guy Parsons, but how far ahead?

dougjgreen1 wrote:

Humansvillian wrote:

My beautiful wife went out to put up her chickens, and I followed behind with my new OMD M5 II. I'd left the card in the house, so I went back inside, got the card, switched to my fastest lens, but when I got back the chickens were all cooped up.

Honestly, when you start a post with "My beautiful wife went out to put up her chickens, and I followed her with my OMD EM5ii", I expected to see more pics of the beautiful wife than of the chicken coop implements.

priorities. or it was one camera too many for the wife and she's still cold-shouldering him.

/guy

Humansvillian wrote:

My beautiful wife went out to put up her chickens, and I followed behind with my new OMD M5 II. I'd left the card in the house, so I went back inside, got the card, switched to my fastest lens, but when I got back the chickens were all cooped up.

My OMD M10 will see in the dark. It will take photos of the stars, hand held.

Oh, but not like this camera will. On the default settings, right from the box, set on Program, this one does it with a soft shutter sound, using the touch screen to focus and shoot.

After the level of the M5 II and P5, what is there?

Olympus, creates miracles.

It is such a great pleasure to see someone who is also in awe of what these things can do .

Keep it up.

I've been following her around since 2001, and she gets more beautiful every day.

The Kodak DC3200 still takes the same quality of photos today as it did 17 years ago, as when I took this one.

Guy Parsons wrote:

Humansvillian wrote:

I've un boxed, inspected, and tried out the OMD M5 II, and your P5 is blessed among the righteous, for it had years ago, what the OMD M5 II still has today, which is the quality, construction, and feel of the best grade of MFT camera Olympus can make. This was found on the original, short lived P1, P2 and P3, and continued with the OMD M5 and Pen E-P5.

The P5 is the same grade of camera, as the OMD M5 II.

Yes, but moved on a few years and of course the faux SLR style.

Both have essentially the same sensor and are essentially the same in how well they function to take photographs. Only gee gaws and foo fraws, not essential to the camera's righteousness, separate the two cameras. They are far more alike than they are different.

The things I might think that I might miss under some circumstances are the later imaging chip with Live Composite and the fully electronic shutter.

The things I avoid like viewfinder and sideways flippy screen cause me to make certain choices about what body suits me.

The creators of the cameras from Olympus, made sure that if it's their best grade of MFT camera, it takes the same battery as all the other best grade cameras, beginning with the OMD M5 and P5.

The E-P5 was launched with shutter shock so deadened sales somewhat, by the time I bought it was half price and the firmware had fixed it.

But in a more somber note, we should all admit defeat.

Once you have a P5, there are no more Olympus hills to climb.

I keep saying that, but nobody listens.

Regards...... Guy

Well I was a listener for a long time, Guy . . . until recently. I just sold my E-P5 in excellent condition to a gal in Texas who is delighted. I just wanted things like silent shutter, b&w jpg modes, more megapixels and a built in viewfinder. Bought a Pen-F, obviously.

The mechanical shutter on my M5 II is much quieter and sounds softer than anything else on the previous Olympus cameras I've owned, and on any DSLR I own or have ever heard.

In the menus is a provision that might make the mechanical shutter quieter, but I've not explored that fully, yet.

As the little boy says,,,

How Dey Do Dat?

Guy Parsons wrote:

traveler_101 wrote:

Well I was a listener for a long time, Guy . . . until recently. I just sold my E-P5 in excellent condition to a gal in Texas who is delighted. I just wanted things like silent shutter, b&w jpg modes, more megapixels and a built in viewfinder. Bought a Pen-F, obviously.

If they made the Pen-F with a tilting screen like the E-P5, I might flex the credit card. The front knob fun doesn't mean much for me, that can all happen afterwards with the Nik software or whatever, if needed.

Same exterior build E-P5 turned into an E-P6 with updated internals would make more sense to this little bunny. But I think the E-Px line has stopped at the E-P5.

In fact I'm going the other direction and playing with 1/1.7" sensors to see how light a kit I can make as a backup or as an only camera in a belt pouch.

Agree. The camera is a classic M3 beaut. The stupid video screen an unusable deal breaker for me.