Administrators Andrew Reid Posted September 10, 2013 Administrators Share Posted September 10, 2013 Olympus have announced a new flagship Micro Four Thirds camera, the OM-D E-M1 which goes head to head with the GH3 but without any of Panasonic's focus on video. The camera offers only one frame rate at all resolutions - 30p. [url=http://www.eoshd.com/content/11115/new-olympus-e-m1-with-moire-reduction-but-no-24p]Read the full article here[/url] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xenogears Posted September 10, 2013 Share Posted September 10, 2013 HDMI live view clean and uncompressed is a no-no on the M1? Great photo camera by the way, i own the M5 and this is a great evolution of a great camera, is sad the video specs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
/p/ Posted September 10, 2013 Share Posted September 10, 2013 So there is no 25p for PAL versions of the camera? That's just aggravating.. And It would have to be on purpose though right? Surely they're not that moronic over at Olympus. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Julian Posted September 10, 2013 Share Posted September 10, 2013 Andrew, check the studio comparison at DPreview again. I think they made a mistake somewhere, as ISO 6400 is not selectable anymore. The E-M1 doesn't look better than the GX7 at 3200 or 12800. Maybe they put a wrong value for 6400 and removed it... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.P Posted September 10, 2013 Share Posted September 10, 2013 So so sad, looked so promising. And focus peaking only seems to work with lenses that have electrical connection. Is there anything we can do? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jgharding Posted September 10, 2013 Share Posted September 10, 2013 A few lines of code... a hell of a lot fewer sales... That bloody stabilisation... it's like sticking a Ferrari engine in a box. All that potential wasted on a poor codec and too high a frame rate! ARG! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.P Posted September 10, 2013 Share Posted September 10, 2013 Full official specs: http://www.olympus-europa.com/site/en/c/cameras/om_d_system_cameras/om_d/e_m1/e_m1_specifications.html At first I thought, fine, they just don't wanna add more programming cost to creating menu options with e.g a high bit rate mode. But looking at video specs it seems to already be two modes for 1080p, one "high" bitrate 24 Mbps and one lower 16Mbps.. So it's just tweaking of numbers, this was a deliberate choice, what is going on here?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike_tee_vee Posted September 10, 2013 Share Posted September 10, 2013 Any chance a firmware (either official or "hack") could bring out 24p video? Otherwise, I'll save my $1,399. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kuban Posted September 10, 2013 Share Posted September 10, 2013 I'd love it if someone could foucs on a hack for the EM5, personalviews had a thread on that, but sadly has somewhat stalled. I'm hoping that in the near future a firmware update is issued for the EM1 and could be engineered for the EM5, at least we could up the bitrate and codec on video. As to why Oly are so stumborn on the issue of video, this from someone on the inside of the company "we left the video side to pana'. For over a year I've emailed filmakers and bloggers who wrote about this cam and are of the opinion, it is what it is and Oly knows what the filmaking community out there wants, but they simply don't care of that side of the cam. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ntblowz Posted September 10, 2013 Share Posted September 10, 2013 The high ISO is definitely an improvement over E-M5 and GX7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
albuswulfricbrian Posted September 10, 2013 Share Posted September 10, 2013 Full official specs: http://www.olympus-europa.com/site/en/c/cameras/om_d_system_cameras/om_d/e_m1/e_m1_specifications.html At first I thought, fine, they just don't wanna add more programming cost to creating menu options with e.g a high bit rate mode. But looking at video specs it seems to already be two modes for 1080p, one "high" bitrate 24 Mbps and one lower 16Mbps.. So it's just tweaking of numbers, this was a deliberate choice, what is going on here?! I love that Olympus's "high bitrate" is the same bitrate an iPhone from several generations ago does. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xavier Plagaro Mussard Posted September 10, 2013 Share Posted September 10, 2013 Probably this video specs castration is consequence of the deal with Sony. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nigelbb Posted September 11, 2013 Share Posted September 11, 2013 So there is no 25p for PAL versions of the camera? That's just aggravating.. And It would have to be on purpose though right? Surely they're not that moronic over at Olympus. The only conclusion is that they have agreed with Panasonic or more likely Sony that they will only provide basic video functions so as not to compete with these other manufacturers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atlasman Posted September 11, 2013 Share Posted September 11, 2013 The only conclusion is that they have agreed with Panasonic or more likely Sony that they will only provide basic video functions so as not to compete with these other manufacturers. Any non-compete would be more moronic than Olympus not leveraging their 5-axis stabilizer in the growing video market. Olympus has moved forward with the E-M1, but they fell sadly short of the mark. As Andrew has said, maybe Sony will leverage the 5-axis. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.P Posted September 11, 2013 Share Posted September 11, 2013 :( Zach and Julian 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nigelbb Posted September 11, 2013 Share Posted September 11, 2013 Any non-compete would be more moronic than Olympus not leveraging their 5-axis stabilizer in the growing video market. Olympus has moved forward with the E-M1, but they fell sadly short of the mark. As Andrew has said, maybe Sony will leverage the 5-axis. Presumably Olympus are getting something out of not competing. After the scandal their financial status must be pretty poor otherwise why would they license their fabulous stabilisation technology to Sony instead of keeping it as a USP? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Julian Posted September 11, 2013 Share Posted September 11, 2013 The whole Sony <3 Olympus thing is pretty new though. Olympus always only had 30p, while Panasonic went full out with video functions (GH1, GH2)... The deal between Sony and Olympus is mostly about the medical branch of Olympus. Sony invested heavily because they don't just want to rely on the consumer market. Camera wise technology is going in both directions, the sensor in the OM-D is from Sony for example. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ntblowz Posted September 12, 2013 Share Posted September 12, 2013 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86ND5X8SjSQ Pretty interesting about the new colour creator feature, it can be applied to video too! Does that mean goodbye to 4X4 coloured filters? :P Its like colour grading in camera. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Andrew Reid Posted September 12, 2013 Author Administrators Share Posted September 12, 2013 Video quality looks good. Very detailed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xenogears Posted September 13, 2013 Share Posted September 13, 2013 Here's a video sample (at botton of the page), very good indeed. http://www.photographyblog.com/previews/olympus_om_d_e_m1_photos/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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