it seems more biased towards action/sports and landscape, I am considering cancelling my pre-order, but I am in love with the pro-build, my main workhorse is my D850 but I use my EM-1mkII when I need to travel light. Im used to more DR but I wonder could the high res shots give me best of both worlds, however it looks like hand held can't be used with flash which may be an issue. I do some fashion, portrait, nude, an occasional landscape. So should I cancel my preorder? money isn't the only issue, but I don't want to buy something useless. I love pro mode and the interface my EM-, if the sensor was newer on the EM-1MX it wold be a no brainer
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I shoot Portraits, nudes-what does the E-M1X offer me?
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Nothing, it is a camera designed for action photography.
The EM1 ii is perfect for travel, the EM1x is not.
Arek Halusko
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Odd action reviews are popping up and its seems to be doing ok, not every sport involves running people and bounding balls. Time to start saving my pennies for the body unless a used Gh5s comes along before that.
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You can shoot some nude trains?
Why would you need this camera for portrait when you already own the D850?
Baffling...makes zero sense to me.
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Why buy the EM1X?
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How about you post some images and we can then decide if you need a new camera or not 
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Henry Falkner
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I have known a model for 18 years, 17 of them living in the same house.
I use two types of camera - a pocket zoom (Olympus SH-1) and a micro 4/3 (E-M10 II).
Last Wednesday, coming home from shopping, Sandra says 'I have an interview with a modelling agency next Friday. I want you to be ready with the camera in half an hour.'
Would my 18-year-old FL30 external bounce flash work with my 3-months-old E-M10 II? Yes, it did, with the camera set to 'fill-in'. I had no time to figure out the best setting. I rotated the flash head for bounce lighting off the ceiling. That had worked for me at a wedding 16 years ago.
We pruned the number of shots down to the 11 that Sandra liked.
Come the interview, I got pushed into registering as well. They did their own shots of both of us, but they also selected 3 shots I had taken of Sandra.
Next thing, we both have a five-hour shoot next Tuesday.
Now comes the crunch - Sandra does not care two hoots about which camera I was using. All she worried about was that I did not faff around with the camera. Re-setting the flash head for the vertical shots I managed to turn the flash setting in the camera to OFF a couple of times.
If you want to use the E-M1X, that is fine as long as you can use it on auto-pilot.
SHE wants to know she has your attention. If she feels she has to compete with your new camera, you are in trouble.
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I use two types of camera - a pocket zoom (Olympus SH-1) and a micro 4/3 (E-M10 II).
Last Wednesday, coming home from shopping, Sandra says 'I have an interview with a modelling agency next Friday. I want you to be ready with the camera in half an hour.'
Would my 18-year-old FL30 external bounce flash work with my 3-months-old E-M10 II? Yes, it did, with the camera set to 'fill-in'. I had no time to figure out the best setting. I rotated the flash head for bounce lighting off the ceiling. That had worked for me at a wedding 16 years ago.
We pruned the number of shots down to the 11 that Sandra liked.
Come the interview, I got pushed into registering as well. They did their own shots of both of us, but they also selected 3 shots I had taken of Sandra.
Next thing, we both have a five-hour shoot next Tuesday.
Now comes the crunch - Sandra does not care two hoots about which camera I was using. All she worried about was that I did not faff around with the camera. Re-setting the flash head for the vertical shots I managed to turn the flash setting in the camera to OFF a couple of times.
If you want to use the E-M1X, that is fine as long as you can use it on auto-pilot.
SHE wants to know she has your attention. If she feels she has to compete with your new camera, you are in trouble.
Henry
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With these intended uses size and weight are no problem and WR is no necessity. If you are after the latest and best. go Sony FF with the A9 or A7.3: there you get the best ever eye AF. That is, if you are GAS ridden or your Nikon FF is too big and heavy for you.
A A7.3 with 1.8/85 and a 2/28 will cost you about as much as the EM1X body alone and weight less than 3 pounds. This would be a no brainer for me.
Otherwise a D850 is very likely good enough.
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yellodog
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Cameras aren't biased, they're machines that (in the best case) do what you want them to do.
No resonable camera is going to make your portraits better or worse.
You know it's a gorgeous camera and that you want it. Give in. Buy it.
No resonable camera is going to make your portraits better or worse.
You know it's a gorgeous camera and that you want it. Give in. Buy it.
^^^ thats what I'm saying to myself to justify the purchase, to those that responded that I just have GAS, you are correct, but it such a cool piece of "kit" as the englisch would say. When you talk with Olympus fanboys, its always the small sensor is what makes this camera so great and the small size. The X certainly doesn't have small size but its so cool, it seriously reminds me of that photoshopped picture of a camera with too many features, including something like "call spock" on one of the buttons
If you do your shots for yourself, you can make a decision about your level of satisfaction.
If you do photography to your clients, the usually say their requirements to your hardware - most of them are very educated about it.
If your clients uncertain, use your Nikon - better be safe than sorry.
For your kind of shooting light when you have plenty of time to arrange the stage, light and skills of model plays the first hand.
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If you do photography to your clients, the usually say their requirements to your hardware - most of them are very educated about it.
If your clients uncertain, use your Nikon - better be safe than sorry.
For your kind of shooting light when you have plenty of time to arrange the stage, light and skills of model plays the first hand.
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I think you have mistaken the travel to hiking.... As that is where 1D wouldn't at all be nice. Marching with 25kg gear for 50km a day is not fun... And it is not fun at all when you are carrying a larger 11 KG battalion radio with you, among all other personal gear:
Tadiran CNR-900 (PRC-04 / TRC-04)
No replace your personal weapon (~4.2 KG) with a camera gear, and E-M1 is extremely light, small and nice to use.
Now considering that you go to travel across a different countries etc. 1D X is not a problem, the lenses are. And E-M1X is great exemplary how to get again a smaller and lighter body with even better performance and capabilities than anything Canon or Nikon offers, and pairing it with tiny lenses like 40-150mm f/2.8 PRO makes it just far nicer.
My personal only drawback and worry to Olympus gear is the mount. I just don't have that 100% trust that I had with Canon. Reason is that the gear is tiny and light, so it reflects the feeling it can't take the beating. And E-M1X likely doesn't give that one at all.
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The handheld HR mode is not for all kind portraits because it takes a moment to process each individual capture. And between that capture time you are literally waiting a unusable camera at hands.
So if your portrait style is the common fashion kind, where you take a shot every second and the model change the pose constantly, then HR mode is not for you. But if it is that you take 2-3 shots per minute... There shouldn't be problems as long you work with constant or environmental lights.
I think that's really what it would offer you, For your usage the new focus is likely not a big benefit, but you get a more robust body, two batteries (could just add a grip to your E-M1.2), lower latency/higher magnification EVF and that's probably it. If your cameras typically take some knocks then it seems worth considering (although the E-M1.2 is already pretty tough).
I'm really interested in the option of HHHR for portraits too, that could make a big difference.
For what it's worth, my wife does similar work, she's a fashion pro who also does nudes and is an Olympus UK Mentor. We haven't tried the E-M1x yet, and looking forward to giving one a go, but for now it seems unlikely that we'll be investing on one. No doubt it's an awesome tool, but for her usage it probably doesn't offer enough benefit for the extra cost, she is simply not the target market. If she hadn't already invested in E-M1.2's though, it would be well worth thinking about a more pro-build version - and C-AF improvements might be noticeable for catwalk shooting.
this round of GAS pass. You have 2 sets of gear that do 2 different things rather well. That camera does neither one particularly well.
If you want a new m43 camera, get a G9. For your uses it does everything the EM1x does, has a better VF, is lighter, and costs less than half the price.
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......just GAS.....the 850 is an outstanding machine for that line of work....save your money and stick with it, would be my 2 cents fwiw
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