Olympus OM-D EM10 with Power Zoom Pancake M.Zuiko Digital ED 14-42mm 1:3.5-5.6 EZ Lens - Silver/Silver (16.1MP, Live MOS ) 3.0 inch Tiltable LCD

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A camera created to embody sheer style and cool creativity, it's a very niche and premium-priced product that may be difficult for OM Digital –which cannot afford to make any losses –to resurrect. However, it has been brought up publicly by company executives a number of times in recent discussions. Chunky lugs for attaching the supplied shoulder strap hang at either side of the camera, thankfully out of the way of fingers and controls. The Mark IV also features a compact in-body image stabilization unit with up to 4.5 EV steps of compensation and 15 fps high-speed sequential shooting. There’s also improved Continuous AF precision for continuous focusing on moving subjects. Meanwhile, the Face Priority/ Eye Priority AF is now able to focus on faces in profile or looking down, which should help ensure that users can capture sharp portraits even at unconventional angles. For instance, key features include a 3-inch, 1.04-million-dot LCD touchscreen, 3-axis image stabilisation, twin controls and focus peaking, along with wireless connectivity and control via the Olympus Share app. Panasonic also employs a 100% contrast-based AF system, but enhances its performance by profiling the blurred characteristics of its lenses to better-know how to focus. This DFD technology certainly improves the performance, but still can’t match the confidence of the phase-detect AF systems now being embedded into most of the sensors used by the competition. Buy a modern Sony, Fujifilm or Canon mirrorless camera and you’ll enjoy the benefits of phase-detect autofocus and its ability to continuously autofocus on moving subjects with ease. Olympus also offers phase-detect AF, but only on the flagship EM1 series.

Olympus releases the lightly updated OM-D E-M10 Mark IIIs Olympus releases the lightly updated OM-D E-M10 Mark IIIs

The E-M10 Mark IV is the most photo-centric camera in its category. While its rivals are more geared towards video shooters, this cameras wants to be a great stills camera first and foremost – and it does a solid job. As before, the Silent mode employs a fully electronic shutter with the benefit of extending the maximum shutter speed to 1/16000, giving you two more stops of exposure control over the mechanical shutter – handy if you’re shooting with large apertures under bright conditions or want to freeze the fastest action. Electronic shutters are great for silence, avoiding vibrations and achieving fast shutters, but due to the readout speed of most sensors, they’re not suitable when the subject – or camera – are in motion as the image can suffer from undesirable skewing artefacts – something I still noticed on the EM10 III with only modest motion. They can also suffer from banding under some artificial lighting, but if you’re careful they can still prove useful in discreet environments. The Olympus OM-D E-M10 Mark IV is a rather modest update of the 3-year-old Mark III model, principally adding a flip-down LCD screen that's perfect for taking selfies, more reliable continuous focusing on moving subjects, and USB charging. Inside, the IIIs gets the new option to allow TTL flash with the electronic shutter (to 1/20) and to optionally (and separately if desired) re-enable the AF illuminator and the beep with silent shutter use. These are additions shared with the Mark IV.

Here’s three images I took of a simple macro still life arrangement using the EM10 Mark III and the Olympus 14-42mm kit zoom at 42mm. Update: The E-M10 Mark II has been replaced by the E-M10 Mark III, but it's still widely available at reduced prices, making it a top candidate for anyone looking for the best cheap camera. This article contains content that is written like an advertisement. Please help improve it by removing promotional content and inappropriate external links, and by adding encyclopedic content written from a neutral point of view. ( July 2014) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)

Olympus OM-D E-M10 Mark IV Micro Four Thirds System Camera Olympus OM-D E-M10 Mark IV Micro Four Thirds System Camera

The last option on this tool bar is an on-board shooting hints and tips manual, with the usual 'suspects' of photographing children and pets given the most prominence ('take a picture at their height level' being a summation of the level of advice imparted). We even get tips, as a bit of closet advertising, for attaching Olympus accessories, such as lens converters. It's a subtle change, rather than a revolutionary one, but does help to make it even easier to hold nice and steady when shooting handheld, ably assisted by the pronounced thumb-grip on the rear. The EM10 Mark III also inherits the Keystone Compensation option of recent models which provides real-time correction of converging lines as you compose, although on the Mark III you’ll now find it on the AP menu. There’s nothing stopping you from performing similar skewing after the event, but Olympus likes to offer the chance to do it in the field and I appreciate the chance. Inevitably there’s some cropping of the image and juggling of pixels, but it’s nice to be able to make these corrections in-camera as you compose. Here’s a handheld before and after shot to show you the kind of thing that’s possible with a wide lens pointing upwards taken from exactly the same position, and with the same lens and focal length. Shooting modes include Aperture priority, Art Filter, Manual, Program and Shutter priority, while one-shot echo and multiecho effects can be added to movies. There's also the ability to capture high-speed VGA footage at 120fps. The unique-to-Olympus-these-days ability to use full TTL electronic flash with the silent shutter (shared with the E-M10 Mark IV; in both cases however the top sync speed is 1/20), plus the ability to re-enable the beeper and/or the AF illuminator in silent shutter mode if desired.To see how it fits in, and which model is best for you, we’ve compared the three current OM-D models, spec by spec (the PEN models are a different proposition) and reached a pretty definite conclusion. And the fonctional difference was in the firmware only (along with a small cosmetic difference). One can upgrade a Stylus 1 with the Stylus 1s firmware (I did it). The pictures below were taken of a white wall from a distance of 1.5m, with and without the built-in flash. The results are great-looking images in dim interiors or around the blue hours following sunset or before sunrise without the need for a tripod. Of course the ability to handhold a slow shutter speed isn’t going to help if your subject is moving, but for static subjects it’s an incredibly valuable capability.

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The Olympus OM-D E-M10 Mark IV features a flash that has multiple modes including Forced On, Forced Off, Auto, Slow Sync, Rear-Curtain Sync and almost any of these combined with red-eye reduction. My Nikon V1 is ancient but it came with a mechanical as well as an electronic shutter. So, I was always able to shoot in silent mode if I wanted to. The camera’s battery is rated to around 360 shots and under 30 minutes of video. This is typical for cameras in this class and at this price point. In use, we found it got us through a day of walking around, with it powering down into battery saver mode. If you prefer to compose with a screen, the EM10 Mark III offers the same 3in / 3:2 shaped LCD panel as the Mark II that’s touch-sensitive and can angle vertically upwards by about 90 degrees or down by about 45 degrees. This vertical tilt is useful for framing at high or low angles in the landscape orientation, but won’t help you if you’re shooting in the portrait / vertical orientation. It’s also unable to flip forward to face the subject, making it much harder to frame selfies or filming pieces to camera; it’s a shame since the movie stabilisation is otherwise ideal for handheld vlogging. If you want a screen that can flip out to the side, angle for portrait or landscape orientation, or face the subject, consider either Panasonic’s Lumix G80 / G85 or the higher-end Olympus OMD EM5 Mark II. We tested the O-MD E-M10 Mark IV alongside entry-level mirrorless rival cameras like the Fujifilm X-T200 and Sony Alpha A6100, as well as the E-M10 Mark III, to see just how well the new Olympus compares to its predecessor.Note that this camera is not compatible with the high-power USB PD standard, however, so make sure that you use a suitable powerbank.