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.
Despite the fact that the camera is sealed against moisture and dust, has the E-M5 a fold-out oled touch screen with 614K subpixels. Above the display almost completely flat for shots close to the ground or shoot from the hip, while the 3″screen is also angled downwards.
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.
