E-M5 Owner - Comments, Critique, Reviews, and what-nots :-)

[Oly5050]

How to select multiple protected files to make them unprotected?

I dun think u can do that. It would defeat the purpose of protecting the file if it can be so easily unprotected and deleted.

 

[Avonez]

I dun think u can do that. It would defeat the purpose of protecting the file if it can be so easily unprotected and deleted.

This would seem strange to limit its usefulness. In my travel, I only realised I didnt have an empty SD when I have already taken some new photos. I can easily mass select to protect my new photos and mass delete the previous photos which I had backup previously, to free up space. Now, short of formatting, I have to unprotect these photos one by one before I can delete them.

 

[vengels]

I usually just bring a few cards when I travel..
Small items and relatively cheap..

Save the hassle of reviewing and deleting

 

[coughing bean]

Hi all, I just came back from Phuket last week where I brought the EM5. Sad to say it did NOT survive a medium shower in the afternoon and the camera has died from water damage from rain. Olympus said the damage was extensive and comment that that kind of damage can only happen if the camera has been submerged in water. It has not submerged it in water. I am very disappointed that it did not even survive a medium shower with the "weather proof lens 12-50mm" attached with a filter in front of it. Flash was not mounted. and the flash cover and the accessory port was covered.

For those who are interested, the repairs are quoted in the range of $7xx. I am just extremely disappointed that the camera though marketed to be weather sealed, but wasn't able to survive a simple shower. I did check the seals around the lens to see if it might be any particles that got stuck on the rubber ring and allowed water in but found nothing.

Unfortunately I did not test the camera in any shower with the flash hotshoe attached. Hopefully someone else doesn't find out the hard way.

I have used Nikon D70, D2H, Canon 350D, Nikon D3, D700, D7000 in rain without so called weather-proof lenses. The lighter-weight cameras in light rain for hours on end, no issues. However with this weather-sealed camera using weather sealed lens, it died on the 2nd exposure to rain. Luck? Fate?

Either way, you have been warned. Just treat your camera with more care and don't let "weather-sealed" on the specification sheet lull you into exposing the camera to rain or splashes of water.

wow!!!! read your entry too late... I brought it to Port Of Lost Wonder and at the end of the day, I put it under shower tap to "clean" off water from the theme park...
i last i checked it was working.. i would not have done any of the silly thing if i have read your posting earlier on..
let me get home to check if my cam is still working..
i'll be damned if it is not working now

 

[microcosm]

A case of lemon, I must say...

I have put mine through heavy downpour recently as I was caught in the open when the sky opened up, and my camera is still working perfect.

 

[Oly5050]

I usually just bring a few cards when I travel..
Small items and relatively cheap..

Save the hassle of reviewing and deleting

Yah...I usually dun bother with locking or doing any deletion. Just bring extra cards and do the editing on the PC. Data on solid state is usually rock solid.

 

[rhema83]

One important note: don't trust the OLED screen to determine colour accuracy. During my recent trip, I noticed that most pictures look too green on the OLED screen. So I dialed down the green to -3. But when I got home and opened the files on my computer, the pictures all had a red cast (i.e. too little green). Adding +3 green restored colour accuracy. This is a lesson learnt, the painful way. (Why didn't I shoot RAW is beyond me. I guess it is because of how reviews all say the "Olympus colours" are very pleasant and shooting JPEG is good enough.)

I know that editing JPEG files and saving them will degrade their fidelity. I guess I will keep the original ones untouched and only PP those that I want to share...

 

[NazgulKing]

Olympus colors are very much like Ricoh colors, never mind the metering tendencies.

 

[Oly5050]

One important note: don't trust the OLED screen to determine colour accuracy. During my recent trip, I noticed that most pictures look too green on the OLED screen. So I dialed down the green to -3. But when I got home and opened the files on my computer, the pictures all had a red cast (i.e. too little green). Adding +3 green restored colour accuracy. This is a lesson learnt, the painful way. (Why didn't I shoot RAW is beyond me. I guess it is because of how reviews all say the "Olympus colours" are very pleasant and shooting JPEG is good enough.)

I know that editing JPEG files and saving them will degrade their fidelity. I guess I will keep the original ones untouched and only PP those that I want to share...

If u think the jpegs are a little warm, there is an option to turn it off in the camera.

I used to keep the warm cast off for EP3 and EPL3. However, i find that for EM5, i prefer to keep it on as i think the jpegs without the warm cast look too green. But thats up to
individual and olympus gives you the option yo choose. Also if u shoot RAW, u cannot get the oly colours unless you process it thru OV2.

 

[grantyale]

One important note: don't trust the OLED screen to determine colour accuracy. During my recent trip, I noticed that most pictures look too green on the OLED screen. So I dialed down the green to -3. But when I got home and opened the files on my computer, the pictures all had a red cast (i.e. too little green). Adding +3 green restored colour accuracy. This is a lesson learnt, the painful way. (Why didn't I shoot RAW is beyond me. I guess it is because of how reviews all say the "Olympus colours" are very pleasant and shooting JPEG is good enough.)

I know that editing JPEG files and saving them will degrade their fidelity. I guess I will keep the original ones untouched and only PP those that I want to share...

The screen on E-M5 looks accurate enough straight-on, but has a distinct green green/cyan cast when seen from an angle.

 

[ageha]

The screen on E-M5 looks accurate enough straight-on, but has a distinct green green/cyan cast when seen from an angle.

Looks pretty good to me.

 

[116520]

Looks good to me too... better than GX1...

 

[ageha]

Looks good to me too... better than GX1...

And a lot better than GH2.

 

[speedtest99]

in other words, it is the best screen you can find in m43.

 

[Oly5050]

Yup, its the best screen compared to all other m4/3 cameras before that. Even my friends can see that. In fact, for them, they think the EVF is damn good...everything looks so "clear"!!! Hahaha! It's funny to see their amazement.

 

[rhema83]

The screen on E-M5 looks accurate enough straight-on, but has a distinct green green/cyan cast when seen from an angle.

Exactly the problem. I must either "trust the camera" and ignore the cast on the screen, or simply shoot RAW and leave the adjustments to when I get home.

 

[ageha]

Exactly the problem. I must either "trust the camera" and ignore the cast on the screen, or simply shoot RAW and leave the adjustments to when I get home.

Maybe I'm color blind but I don't see a green cast that prevents me from judging the shot on the screen. Guess I'm lucky!

 

[116520]

Any picture of the "green cast"? thanks!

 

[wonglp]

I remember having green cast problems with oled colors with ep3, not with em5 though...

 

[ageha]

I remember having green cast problems with oled colors with ep3, not with em5 though...

Maybe it's just a typical sample variation, mine is fine.