mopixels Posted March 10, 2012 Share Posted March 10, 2012 I have been seeing a lot of beautiful stills out of the new Olympus OM-D E-M5, new sensor with amazing quality, high ISO and low noise, etc., but I went to their web site and looked at the specs for video on the camera. If these are final, then they've blown it for video - totally. 30fps sensor output, but recorded as 1080i, no 30fps progressive at 1080, no 24fps period, AVCHD at a maxium bit rate of 20Mbps. Does anyone know anything about this camera first hand? Andrew, have you played with it? Quoted from their site: [url=http://www.olympusamerica.com/cpg_section/product.asp?product=1583&page=specs]http://www.olympusamerica.com/cpg_section/product.asp?product=1583&page=specs[/url] MOV（MPEG-4AVC/H.264 ），AVI（Motion JPEG） [MOV] Full HD: 1920(H)x1080(V), 59.94i Recording *3 20Mbps（Fine) *4 / 17Mbps（Normal) *4 : Aspect 16:9 HD: 1280(H)x720(V), 59.94i Recording *3, 13Mbps（Fine) *4 / 10Mbps（Normal) *4 : Aspect 16:9 *3 : Sensor output 30fps *4 : bitrate [AVI Motion JPEG] HD: 1280(H)x720(V), 30fps *4, Aspect 16:9 SD: 640(H)x480(V), 30fps *4, Aspect 4:3 *4 : Except for some of the Art Filters Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sara Posted March 10, 2012 Share Posted March 10, 2012 yup dumb. end of story. for months everyone as known the video on it would be worthless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Andrew Reid Posted March 10, 2012 Administrators Share Posted March 10, 2012 It's rubbish. Stick to the Olympus lenses - they're good. Forget the cameras, they have lost the plot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sara Posted March 10, 2012 Share Posted March 10, 2012 Speaking of great lenses - has there been any testing of the newly announced Macro 60mm or the 75mm F1.8? Still concepts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Andrew Reid Posted March 10, 2012 Administrators Share Posted March 10, 2012 Don't think they're out yet. Looking forward to the 75! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mopixels Posted March 11, 2012 Author Share Posted March 11, 2012 Thanks for the replies, I thought it was just me. ??? What a waste, so much potential there and I love their lenses. I used to have an OM2-SP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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