Olympus has the first compact system cameras with a so-called weathersealing announced, the E-M5. The high-end m4/3 camera has a retrostyling and has a much more light-sensitive image sensor with 16.1-megapixel.
The E-M5 is part of the new OM-D line. This will consist of cameras with a built-in electronic viewfinder, while the existing ‘Digital Pen’-series, an evf only and is optional. The square-shaped E-M5 is a thick nod to the popular TO-slr-series of Olympus from the seventies and eighties.
The Live MOS image sensor with 16.1-megapixel is most likely coming from Panasonic that such a sensor already in the Lumix G3 and GX1 stopped. This is what ruisprestaties concerns clearly the better of the old sensor with 12.1 megapixels that, in the last m4/3 cameras of the brand was. In combination with the TruePic VI image processor with a maximum equivalent to iso 25,600 shot.
In addition to a new sensor, Olympus has the focus in the continuous autofocusstand express and is the sensor-shift image stabilization system is extended with functionality to rotation of the camera, for example, as a result of the pressing of the shutter button, to compensate.
The grip on the front is very shallow with a slightly harder coating, but the camera is a battery grip. It consists of two parts: the lower part where the extra battery in it and that can be used when the camera is in the portrait mode is held, and the second part with a deeper grip that stays on the housing back slide.
Other accessories are supplied opzetflitser, just like the camera sealed seams, a new flash with continuous light for video and an adapter for four/thirds lenses that also weathersealing. The E-M5 will cost 1099 euros for just the body, while in a kit with the new, sealed 12-50mm lens the camera is about two hundred euro more expensive. Read more about Olympus E-M5 in the hands-on that Tweakers.net had with the camera on the CES show in Las Vegas in early January.
In addition to the E-M5 announced by Olympus, a 75mm f/1,8 lens, which on a m4/3 camera with a telephoto range of effective 150mm and because of its great brightness, suitable for distant portraits. Also the company introduces a 60mm f/2.8-macro lens. Prices of these two lenses are not yet known.
