E-M10 review: still an excellent camera

108 wrote:

Great review and comparison .

As said , the BIG pluses :

0 second anti shock , better buttons , built in flash

I wish my old Em5 had a zero second antishock , instead I have to reckon with a 1/8 that I have never found obvious .

I never experienced shutter shock with my E-M5, but some people certainly did. I recall back around 2012 or 2013 someone demonstrated it very well using his Olympus 45mm f1.8. I tried my 45mm at the shutter speeds he would get it and mine was fine. Some people had problems and some didn't.

The 1/8 second shutter delay was shown to somewhat help, but it is not the same at all as the way the 0 second EFCS shutter operates, so the 1/8 second was only partially effective and most certainly an undesirable kludge since it introduced a 1/8 second delay for every photo. Fortunately, I never had to resort to using it on my E-M5. It seemed like most people had no problems with shutter shock, but a few did. Probably just that some got bodies that were less than optimal.

On the "positive" ( ? ) side 1 the Em5 demands thus to be shot like a regular Dslr , close to your eye and holding still , no quick snap-shots possible as with the Em10 , and 2 the built quality makes the Em10 feel like a toy in comparison , but otherwise the little Em10 is a much more pleasurable camera to use

I have used my Em10 for some years now and it's close to impossible to miss a shot, especially with a good small prime like 17 or 20 mm . Now I have the PL15 glued on it .

I tried version 2 and wasn't that convinced except for the E shutter and better EVF , and it had that dreaded LCD screen black out when pulled out so I returned it to the seller who swore naturally that he had never seen the problem .

The Em10 is a great camera that embodies what is best about m4/3

Humansvillian wrote:

My first Olympus MFT camera was a PL-1.

I still own it, and if you use it in daylight at ISO 200 I can’t tell any difference in image quality compared with my OMD M5 II.

But when I got an OMD M10, that was the first Olympus MFT camera that was:

1. Affordable

2. With EVF and pop up flash

3. With really great IBIS

4. Blazing fast

5. Two wheels on top

6. Zero second anti shock

7. 16mp sensor

9. Takes the Pen series BL 50 battery

10. Looks like the thousand dollar M5

The M10.2 and M10.3 are exactly the same gadget with more toys to play with, and the M10.4 adds a 20mp sensor, but the M10 started the base OMD series cameras which are very capable of shooting in low light, with higher ISOs, and have the same basic operation and controls as the M5, or even M1, for that matter.

Any OMD M10 is not just a good starter camera, it’s really the only camera anybody needs to shoot MFT.

I most certainly agree. Both the E-M10 and E-M10 II are excellent cameras and they can be bought used for great prices now. Personally, I would skip the E-M10 III though. The E-M10 IV got a few things restored that were removed from the E-M10 III, but it unfortunately didn't get the 4 MySets/Custom modes on the mode dial back.

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Nice to hear the praise on the original M10.

A marvelous little camera. I still prefer it above the make II, which I also have. The EFV is less clear but the experience is much more natural. And it's faster. The control wheels are less stiff. And the  placing of the other controls is, in my hands, more ergonomical.

And - not important - I like its more subtle styling. I only miss the silent shutter sometimes.

Thanks for sharing!

The E-M10 is what got me into m4/3.

I had a full-frame Canon dSLR system, having previously shot mirrorless APS-C, and really wanted to get back into mirrorless. I really disliked the Fuji options at the time (I had the first camera, the X-E1 or whatever, and the first three primes, and was not happy), and Sony had decided to make their APS-C system into a consumer line (I had an A5100 and some lens), so m4/3 was really the only mirrorless system that looked promising at that time.

I thought I would get a m4/3 as something small and light, and probably just one lens. In the end, I loved the E-M10 so much that I used it all the time! Loved the controls and handling, loved all the options for customization, liked the IQ, and loved the size and weight (the Canon 6D hurt my wrist very fast every time I used it, and could not reach the controls!). I started buying more primes, and using the E-M10 more and more, and finally got rid of the Canon system.

I wound up buying several thousand dollars worth of primes and (pricey Olympus hoods :-x), and finally an E-M1, which was my fave camera ever at the time. I finally gave my E-M10 to a friend who was using a really old P&S to do product photography of handles he was making for Japanese knives. Last year I added a G9, which a few months later got destroyed when a plumber set our house on fire. In the end, I did not replace it, and instead added another system. However, recently I bought a used GX9, and just love it.

So I still keep using m4/3, because the system just has sooo many appealing features, and a lot of strengths! And that little E-M10 and a PL 25/1.4 was the gateway drug for my m4/3 addiction!!

Thanks for the review!! I feel the E-M10 is still an awesome entry camera that can grow with people getting into intense photography, and I came close to buying a used MkIII when I got my GX9. The bummer is how they crippled the MkIV. And also the concerns about the future of Olympus gear.

Carol

InkedMarie wrote:

All removed now. Says a lot.

Marie

Marie, greyghost59's reviews weren't removed. They never existed because greyghost59 has not done any. That is the joke.