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<p>Specs and preview article of the new Olympus OM-D E-M5 Micro Four Thirds body posted here:<br>

<a href="../equipment/olympus/om-d/e-m5/announcement-and-preview/">http://www.photo.net/equipment/olympus/om-d/e-m5/announcement-and-preview/</a><br>

I was able to spend some time with a pre-production OM-D E-M5 last month at CES and have put some of my thoughts into the preview. In short though, I'm excited and think it was a really good move for Olympus.<br>

Agree disagree or insults, please post as comments on the article itself. Thanks.<br>

<a rel="nofollow" href="../equipment/pentax/k-01/preview/"></a><a href="../equipment/olympus/om-d/e-m5/announcement-and-preview/">http://www.photo.net/equipment/olympus/om-d/e-m5/announcement-and-preview/</a></p>

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<p>Given that the unit I used was a pre-production model, and that I didn't have a NEX 7 there to compare, I think it would be unfair for me to give an opinion on comparing the two.</p>

<p>I thought the EVF in the pre-production model was pretty good though. But I'm also not the most familiar with the NEX 7's having only played with it a little bit.</p>

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<p>As a long-time Pentax user, it makes me sad to look at this and the Nikon D800 announcements (and the imminent Canon 5dX), Sony's NEX line and Panasonic's excellent offerings, while those ludicrous toys, the Q and K01, are, apparently, Pentax's take on the market and where it's going.</p>
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<p>The online complaints about the .92x magnification is obviously a case of people crying before they know all the facts. You can set the finder up like a DSLR with limited information underneath the image, meaning the image is smaller. If you use the finder like the Pen VF-2 finder, at 4:3 with the image across the entire finder and the data overlaid, the magnification is the exact same 1.15x as the VF2.</p>

<p>Using the lower magnification finder setup is a user option.</p>

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<p>As a long-time Pentax user, it makes me sad to look at this and the Nikon D800 announcements (and the imminent Canon 5dX), Sony's NEX line and Panasonic's excellent offerings, while those ludicrous toys, the Q and K01, are, apparently, Pentax's take on the market and where it's going.</p>

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<p>It's not really fair to lump the Q and the K-01 in with the N800 and the new 5D. That would be like grumping on Canon for only announcing the G1x when Nikon announced the D4 at CES.</p>

<p>That having been said, there are legitimate arguments to be made for or against Pentax's path in the mirrorless segment as compared to this camera or the NEX line.</p>

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<p>Leslie, I'm as lightened-up as I need to be. Pentax is a small company with limited resources that they're flinging away at present. Yes, the K5's a beauty: why didn't they follow it up swiftly with a KR replacement that would cash in on the sensor's excellence and - sorry, but I have to be profane here - generate some market-share? Instead, they burn time and effort on a toy (the Q), and then come drastically late to the mirror-less party with a joke product: plug-ugly, big and costly as a dslr, and - without evf or articulated screen - only one means to frame a shot: the very worst one (so good luck with those long legacy lenses).<br>

And Josh, I'm comparing business-, not camera models. You make niche products when you have a cult following, like Leica. Whimsy isn't going to get Pentax back into volume sales.</p>

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<p>Pentax is a small company with limited resources that they're flinging away at present.</p>

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<p>From 2007-2011, Pentax was a part of Hoya, a company with 34,000 employees. Since mid-2011 they are a part of Ricoh, a company with 108,000 employees. I thought Hoya really wanted Pentax for the medical imaging products. I'm still confused as to what Ricoh wants to do as the combined 2 companies have tons of niche products. Maybe that's good enough, I don't really know.</p>

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<p>Sigh, yeah I think Oly finally won me back. A decade of using a hand-me-down OM-1 from my father and then collecting my own OM lenses and bodies with plans to get a Canon full frame body at some point to reuse all of the glass.<br>

Then my wife got an EP-L1 for her birthday this past spring and now there is a critical mass of micro 4/3rds glass and now THIS. That design really brought a tear to my eye. Everything I could possibly want (okay, it doesn't have a penta prism and reflex mirror, but I am convinced I will never find THE perfect camera). It won't be anytime too soon, as I just don't have the spare money right now. However, my 30th birthday is next May, and I am thinking an OM-D, kit 14-42 and a pany 20/1.7 or 14/2.5 sounds like a good way to start things out.<br>

Those lenses, an Oly 8-16 or Panny 7-14 and an Oly 45/1.8 should pretty much cover all of my photography needs with reusing a bit of my old glass.<br>

Man, what a beautiful camera.</p>

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Nice that this Oly post is turning into a

Pentax thread.

 

K-01 seems to be a pretty low-risk

move for Pentax since it's not really a

new system, and it's priced more like a

consumer DSLR than an enthusiast

body like EM-5 or NEX-7. It's my

understanding there will be a K-r

replacement within a few months.

 

The new Oly looks promising with a

good specsheet and it appears to be

priced pretty aggressively vs. NEX-7,

and it's good that they offer a number

of accessories. It seems both this and

the K-01 are pretty polarizing in terms

of aesthetics. Count me as someone

who kinda likes the Pentax's modern

look and isn't quite convinced by the

baby-classic-SLR look of the Oly.

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<p><em><strong>The GH3 is gonna have built-in stabilization?</strong></em><br>

<em><strong></strong></em><br /> No way. The only place Panasonic puts stabilization is in their lenses. If you want in-body stabilization in this system, Olympus is the only choice.</p>

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