Olympus OM-D E-M5, E-M1, E-M10 - Mk1, Mk2 & Mk3 Owners Thread

Fordsabroad said:
The problem isn't really the buffer size but the fact that you cannot do anything while it is downloading IE switch pro capture off. This means that when I have cocked up and left pro capture active and shot a static subject I cannot turn it off to shoot - say a turn of the head until it has completed downloading. I can shoot and capture the head turn but it gives me far more frames than I want or need - 1st word problems!!
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.... I see what you mean but you soon get used to instantly recognising which frames to keep and which to delete when culling dozens of images before editing.

I only use OM Workspace for previewing the downloaded card's contents and culling ready to Move (not Copy) to my ON1 Editor. You can delete images in batches in Workspace. You probably know all this already.
 
RedRobin said:
..... Regarding the weight of the OM 150-400 when out shooting, it is especially well balanced when a Battery Grip is also mounted on the camera body. Okay, the Battery Grip adds more weight so you have to decide how the balance and hence weight FEELS to you personally. The Battery Grip also very greatly helps physical/ergonomic handling.

The longer you hold any camera in the same position while looking through the viewfinder, the heavier it will then become to feel ~ Even a weightlifter's arm muscles become tired.

When out and about I usually take a Gitzo Carbon Travel monopod with ball swivel foot and 2-way Arca-Swiss head (RSS). This allows me to hold the same position for longer or to be steadier for an in-camera Focus Stack.

If I am going to be in the same position for several hours I take a tripod with gimbal head.

As already posted, I always have a Peak cross-chest strap with an Acratech Quick Release Arca-Swiss clamp under my coat so I can walk around hands free. I never ever use neck straps on any camera and the very first thing I do when buying a new camera body is remove those annoying jingly strap lugs.

We each have our own individual preferences but mine may be helpful.
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I don't use a neck strap. I use a leofoto cross body QD strap. Or, for Nikon I use a Black Rapid Sport QD cross body strap with a Kirk QD plate on my Z8 with the 1470gm 600mm PF lens.

The OM 50-200 will likely replace the Nikon 100-400 as it is lighter and handles better. Also the 90mm OM macro looks to be excellent.

The challenge for me is to get my head around the 2 differenct menus and haptics.

I have a monopod and use it when needed. Thanks for the battery grip suggestion. I need to follow this up.
 
Well, as I usually do, I've gone in and ordered a whole plethora of MFT kit :ROFLMAO:

I've spoken to a couple of colleagues who shoot the same types of sports jobs I do, and they've used MFT cameras that are not as new as the OM1 MKII, so I have the intention of trying to start to use this lighter equipment for my sports jobs (hence the second body), as well as personal.

I've ordered:

2 x OM SYSTEM OM-1 Mark II Mirrorless Camera Body
1 x M.Zuiko Digital ED 12-40mm f/2.8 PRO II Lens
1 x M.Zuiko Digital ED 40-150mm f/2.8 PRO Lens
1 x M.Zuiko Digital ED 150-400mm f/4.5 TC1.25x IS PRO Lens
1 x Panasonic 9mm f/1.7 LUMIX G LEICA DG SUMMILUX ASPH Lens
1 x OM SYSTEM BCX-1 Battery Charger
1 extra OM SYSTEM BLX-1 Battery

All going well, I see myself gradually moving away from heavy Canon kit, the sale of my Canon RF 100-300 2.8 funded everything on the list above.

The 12-40mm and 40-150mm will cover my regular outdoor running events and other events such as Tough Mudder etc, the 9mm f1.7 will be great for personal use but will also be very useful for the Hyrox events I shoot, a couple of the stages require a wide lens so 18mm full frame equivalent will be ideal.

The 150-400mm will be used for wildlife and I'm also excited to get back to the Mach Loop in Wales to test it out on aircraft.

Also, before anyone screams that I'm a gear whore, yes I know I am, I always have been and don't apologise for it! :ROFLMAO:
 
I don't think you will be disappointed.

I have the OM1.2, OM1 and OM5.2

My 90 mm Macro lives on the OM1

The OM1.2 has the choice of 8-25 F4 (great lens in my opinion), 12-40 F2.8 V ii and the 40-150 F2.8

The OM5.2 has the 17mm F1.8 Vii on it (although sometimes I used the 8-25).

It is a great system in my opinion
 
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Adamcski said:
I don't think you will be disappointed.
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I don't think I will.

Hyrox this year in Manchester was 5 days, averaging 12-14 hours a day. By the end I was a physical wreck, my Canon R1 and all the RF lenses are amazing with super fast AF and top of the line image quality, but I was physically exhausted and just thought there's got to be a better way, I think this is it.

Especially when you see a colleague wandering round with his MFT camera and lens, shooting one handed :ROFLMAO:
 
Hanley said:
Well, as I usually do, I've gone in and ordered a whole plethora of MFT kit :ROFLMAO:

I've spoken to a couple of colleagues who shoot the same types of sports jobs I do, and they've used MFT cameras that are not as new as the OM1 MKII, so I have the intention of trying to start to use this lighter equipment for my sports jobs (hence the second body), as well as personal.

I've ordered:

2 x OM SYSTEM OM-1 Mark II Mirrorless Camera Body
1 x M.Zuiko Digital ED 12-40mm f/2.8 PRO II Lens
1 x M.Zuiko Digital ED 40-150mm f/2.8 PRO Lens
1 x M.Zuiko Digital ED 150-400mm f/4.5 TC1.25x IS PRO Lens
1 x Panasonic 9mm f/1.7 LUMIX G LEICA DG SUMMILUX ASPH Lens
1 x OM SYSTEM BCX-1 Battery Charger
1 extra OM SYSTEM BLX-1 Battery

All going well, I see myself gradually moving away from heavy Canon kit, the sale of my Canon RF 100-300 2.8 funded everything on the list above.

The 12-40mm and 40-150mm will cover my regular outdoor running events and other events such as Tough Mudder etc, the 9mm f1.7 will be great for personal use but will also be very useful for the Hyrox events I shoot, a couple of the stages require a wide lens so 18mm full frame equivalent will be ideal.

The 150-400mm will be used for wildlife and I'm also excited to get back to the Mach Loop in Wales to test it out on aircraft.

Also, before anyone screams that I'm a gear whore, yes I know I am, I always have been and don't apologise for it! :ROFLMAO:
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The words "deep"."jumping", and "end" come to mind. :p But I don't think you'll regret it (says he who rarely shoots anything faster than a glacier or a sleeping pensioner of a Jack Russell).
 
Hanley
Welcome to the club - not the micro 4/3 club but the I've got more kit and camera systems than I could possibly need club. I believe I could be a founder member. I, like you am a camera tart! I used to have the Fuji gfx system as well but couldn't justify keeping it. I do still look at it on the grey sites though!
I am a little surprised at your choice of the 40-150 rather than the weather sealed 50-200 f2.8 which i thought would have been more suited to your football photography.
I am sure that you will enjoy the OM, less buttons than the R1 but still a very customisable camera.
 
Fordsabroad said:
Hanley
Welcome to the club - not the micro 4/3 club but the I've got more kit and camera systems than I could possibly need club. I believe I could be a founder member. I, like you am a camera tart! I used to have the Fuji gfx system as well but couldn't justify keeping it. I do still look at it on the grey sites though!
I am a little surprised at your choice of the 40-150 rather than the weather sealed 50-200 f2.8 which i thought would have been more suited to your football photography.
I am sure that you will enjoy the OM, less buttons than the R1 but still a very customisable camera.
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It’s my understanding that the 40-150 f2.8 is weather resistant. I may be wrong though, I frequently am!
 
Fordsabroad said:
Hanley
Welcome to the club - not the micro 4/3 club but the I've got more kit and camera systems than I could possibly need club. I believe I could be a founder member. I, like you am a camera tart! I used to have the Fuji gfx system as well but couldn't justify keeping it. I do still look at it on the grey sites though!
I am a little surprised at your choice of the 40-150 rather than the weather sealed 50-200 f2.8 which i thought would have been more suited to your football photography.
I am sure that you will enjoy the OM, less buttons than the R1 but still a very customisable camera.
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I'm not doing football anymore, because photography isn't my main job it was too much of a strain on my spare time, especially considering lots of games are midweek / evenings now.
So the majority of my sports is running, so the 40-150 2.8 is ideal at a ff equivalent of 80-300. I did look at the 50-200 but as I've also bought the 150-400 I thought I didn't really need the crossover of focal length. As I understand it the 40-150 is also weather sealed.
 
Hanley said:
I figured the 40-150mm is a closer fit to the 70-200 that we're all used to. Also pairing well with the 12-40mm, I see this as my MFT equivalent of a 24-70 and 70-200.
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That is how I approached it also.

I then added the 8-25 F4 Pro as I got GAS but actually use it more than the 12-40 F2.8 now. It is currently attached to me OM5.2
 
Adamcski said:
That is how I approached it also.

I then added the 8-25 F4 Pro as I got GAS but actually use it more than the 12-40 F2.8 now. It is currently attached to me OM5.2
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I looked at the 8mm-25mm F4 but in the working scenarios where I need wide, which is generally Hyrox, where the lighting is awful, I need as wide an aperture as possible, so the 9mm Panasonic at F1.7 is a better fit. :)
 
Stephen L said:
It’s my understanding that the 40-150 f2.8 is weather resistant. I may be wrong though, I frequently am!
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.... You are not wrong ~ The Oly 40-150 F/2.8 PRO is absolutely weather resistant to a IP51 certification. The OM 50-200mm and OM-1 mk2 are both IP53. I had my 40-150 from 2019 to this year and it was subjected to many many long sessions in pouring rain and without those fiddly third-party covers which become saturated.

TIP : Don't use neoprene covers on lens bodies other than on the lenshood only because they get saturated with water! The people who sell those covers, usually camouflage patterns, don't tell you that.
 
Hi all, I have an EM1 mki that has developed an issue.
When I put the battery in and turn it on, I get nothing, just a black screen. When I remove the battery and re-insert it, it turns on?.
First time it did this I only had to re-insert the battery once, today I had to try it 4 times before the camera would turn on.
I know that they are after market batteries, but they are fully charged, and slide in and out without issue, once the camera turns on it works just fine.
Is there anything I should/can do apart from cleaning the contacts?. or is only going to get worse?.
Cheers Andy
 
Carpy2001 said:
Hi all, I have an EM1 mki that has developed an issue.
When I put the battery in and turn it on, I get nothing, just a black screen. When I remove the battery and re-insert it, it turns on?.
First time it did this I only had to re-insert the battery once, today I had to try it 4 times before the camera would turn on.
I know that they are after market batteries, but they are fully charged, and slide in and out without issue, once the camera turns on it works just fine.
Is there anything I should/can do apart from cleaning the contacts?. or is only going to get worse?.
Cheers Andy
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The obvious is try another battery, preferably an OEM. How old is the battery you are using?
 
Carpy2001 said:
Hi all, I have an EM1 mki that has developed an issue.
When I put the battery in and turn it on, I get nothing, just a black screen. When I remove the battery and re-insert it, it turns on?.
First time it did this I only had to re-insert the battery once, today I had to try it 4 times before the camera would turn on.
I know that they are after market batteries, but they are fully charged, and slide in and out without issue, once the camera turns on it works just fine.
Is there anything I should/can do apart from cleaning the contacts?. or is only going to get worse?.
Cheers Andy
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None too sure but just a thought........about
what might be happening but is the date & time AOK or is drifting or even unannounced needs resetting???
If so, that could be a sign that an onboard settings control battery has reached the end of its life i.e. no longer functioning and not user replaceable.

NB the above bearing in mind the earliest E-M1 MK1 is IIRC about 14 years old?
 
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Box Brownie said:
None too sure but just a thought........about
what might be happening but is the date & time AOK or is drifting or even unannounced needs resetting???
If so, that could be a sign that an onboard settings control battery has reached the end of its life i.e. no longer functioning and not user replaceable.

NB the above bearing in mind the earliest E-M1 MK1 is IIRC about 14 years old?
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I have the habit of removing the battery everytime I put the camera away, so the time/date need to be set every time I use it again.
 
Carpy2001 said:
I have the habit of removing the battery everytime I put the camera away, so the time/date need to be set every time I use it again.
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As @Box Brownie says, The basic battery should charge the internal battery so the time and date are kept. If this is indeed happening, and you keep a battery in the camera for at least a day every so often, then that means the internal battery of the camera itself is faulty. This is not a consumer changeable component. I have this same fault on my Panasonic LX100.
 
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Stephen L said:
Even at their discount prices they are far more expensive than so-called grey market products.
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You may be right on some, but the ones I checked looked fairly close or better than grey, albeit for reconditioned gear with an OM warranty rather than new & grey with seller warranty:
e.g. 12-100mm f4 Pro £1149 before discount, £689 after 40% taken off at OM vs Cotswold Cameras (Grey), £669
or: 8-25mm f4 Pro £899 before discount, £539 after 40% taken off at OM vs Cotswold Cameras (Grey) £749
or: 20mm f1.4 Pro £599 before discount, £359 after 40% taken off at OM vs Cotswold Cameras (Grey) £449

It looks like the newest cameras went quickly (e.g. OM-5 II body only reduced to £659).
 
Carpy2001 said:
Hi all, I have an EM1 mki that has developed an issue.
When I put the battery in and turn it on, I get nothing, just a black screen. When I remove the battery and re-insert it, it turns on?.
First time it did this I only had to re-insert the battery once, today I had to try it 4 times before the camera would turn on.
I know that they are after market batteries, but they are fully charged, and slide in and out without issue, once the camera turns on it works just fine.
Is there anything I should/can do apart from cleaning the contacts?. or is only going to get worse?.
Cheers Andy
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Happened to a mate of mine. Turned out the camera didn’t recognise the lens. Cleaning the contacts sorted it.
 
Hanley said:
Well the goodies arrived this morning, haven't really had a chance to have a good look as I'm working but first impressions are wow they are light :ROFLMAO:

Looking forward to being able to test them all out.
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I think you'll need more spare batteries. I find I'm changing batteries far more often than i expected.
 
St207 said:
For those in the market for some updated gear, OM Systems (UK) are running their reconditioned equipment promotion again. Currently offering 40% off stock items - https://explore.omsystem.com/gb/en/reconditioned-products-promotion
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I don't know if anyone here is VAT registered but I bought a reconditioned OM5 from OM DS and they wouldn't supply a VAT invoice. They pointed me to some small print in the T&C's which states that they do not supply business to business.
 
jerry12953 said:
I think you'll need more spare batteries. I find I'm changing batteries far more often than i expected.
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I've got 3 , I bought 2 bodies and 1 spare battery, I'll be ordering at least 1 more when I order a grip at some point. :)

I shot over 25,000 images on Sunday in the 10K so I'm definitely going to need a few more batteries.
 
jerry12953 said:
It could be the way I use my OM1 mk1 or the camera itself might be faulty in some way. I'll soon know.....I'm just about to road test my OM1 mk2.
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My cameras are set to sleep very quickly, and I'm not shooting wildlife etc., so can't say what theyre like for that. A battery easily lasts all day for me though.
 
On the subject of batteries, I would not recommend using any other than OEM and therefore I would recommend against third-party batteries.

I would rather pay to have peace of mind and the knowledge that Olympus/OMD would sort out any issues. It's not worth the gamble. All in my opinion.

I use E-M1X and OM-1 mk2 and previously OM-1 'mk1'. I always use Battery Grips and carry an extra battery plus a portable recharger. I shot over 6,000 frames of women's football (it would be rude not to!) on Sunday and on SH2 Drive at 50fps and no lags nor hiccups, and 1 battery barely emptied (95% remaining).
 
RedRobin said:
On the subject of batteries, I would not recommend using any other than OEM and therefore I would recommend against third-party batteries.

I would rather pay to have peace of mind and the knowledge that Olympus/OMD would sort out any issues. It's not worth the gamble. All in my opinion.

I use E-M1X and OM-1 mk2 and previously OM-1 'mk1'. I always use Battery Grips and carry an extra battery plus a portable recharger. I shot over 6,000 frames of women's football (it would be rude not to!) on Sunday and on SH2 Drive at 50fps and no lags nor hiccups, and 1 battery barely emptied (95% remaining).
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Personally I concur!

Yes they cost more but ever since my EM-1 mk1 I have stuck with OEM batteries.
But one way to look at it, is why fuel them with less than optimal design of both power cells (yes, potentially identical to 3rd party (?) ) but who knows what short cuts 'they' may have taken with the onboard charging & power delivery control circuitry.

Of course YMMV as is ones risk profile on such matters.

Oh, over the years I have never paid full price as offers come up and sometimes, as in IIRC one case the free battery came with a power grip!
 
Just ordered my first lenses, apart from lens that came with the camera, I hope they are decent, wanted a 60mm macro but these looked like good value.

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