{"id":7015,"date":"2014-01-29T06:05:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-29T06:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amateurphotographer.co.uk\/uncategorized\/olympus-uncovers-om-d-e-m10-updates-e-m5-firmware-7015"},"modified":"2014-09-02T12:42:46","modified_gmt":"2014-09-02T11:42:46","slug":"olympus-uncovers-om-d-e-m10-updates-e-m5-firmware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/latest\/photo-news\/olympus-uncovers-om-d-e-m10-updates-e-m5-firmware\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympus uncovers OM-D E-M10; updates E-M5 firmware"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The third member of the OM-D family features the design and focusing speed of the OM-D E-M5 – but in a smaller body with built-in Wi-Fi (for remote shutter release via a smartphone during long exposures, for example).<\/p>\n

Pitched against DSLRs such as Canon’s EOS 700D, the micro-four-thirds newcomer houses the same TruePic VI imaging processor as the top of the range E-M1 and delivers a performance close to a “mid-DSLR’, claims Olympus.<\/p>\n

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Billed as the most compact of the OM-D family, the metal-bodied E-M10 sacrifices the on-sensor phase detection (featured on the E-M1) and has no hotshoe-based accessory port, for example.<\/p>\n

A new image stabilisation unit has been used to help make the camera body smaller and lighter, said Olympus’s SLR products planning manager Toshi Terada in an interview with AP.<\/p>\n

Olympus claims that the 1.44m-dot EVF is the fastest in the EM series. A larger, optional, [EP-14] eyecup will be available for glasses wearers, while larger buttons have been added following customer feedback on the EM-5. <\/p>\n

Also on board is a minimum ISO setting of 100, a claimed eight frames-per-second burst rate, plus a pop-up flash.<\/p>\n

The camera deploys Small AF Target and Super Spot AF in a move designed to enable zooming and accurate focusing on \u2018minute sections of the frame’.<\/p>\n

Olympus has today upgraded the firmware in its E-M5 to offer an ISO setting down to 100 and Small AF, as included on the E-M10.<\/p>\n

Designed as an everyday camera for \u2018discerning hobby photographers’, the E-M10 sports a 3in, 1.44m-dot, tiltable LCD screen and three-axis image stabilisation.<\/p>\n

The E-M10 is due to go on sale this month priced \u00a3529.99, body only.<\/p>\n

It will also be available as a kit with a new \u2018super-slim’ M Zuiko Digital ED 14-42mm f\/3.5-5.6 EZ [electronic zoom], priced \u00a3699.99.<\/p>\n

Terada told AP that the \u00a3299 lens – trumpeted as the thinnest pancake zoom on the market – has the same diameter as the previous 14-42mm model but uses a high-refraction lens to enable it to retain the same specification. It deploys an ED lens to help correct chromatic aberration.<\/p>\n

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Meanwhile, Olympus is also poised to launch a new 25mm f\/1.8 lens, following customer demand. <\/p>\n

There will also be a new 9mm bodycap lens containing five elements in four groups and two aspherical elements. <\/p>\n

The 25mm lens, due in March, is set to cost \u00a3369.99 and will bring Olympus’s micro-four-thirds lens portfolio to 14.<\/p>\n

A price for the bodycap lens has not yet been announced. <\/p>\n

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