Anyone knows if E-M5 is already here in Malaysia? I inquired with some shops here in Penang and says tentative arrival is end of April? It's already available in nearby countries such as in HK and Phil.

My friend is an Oly dealer in Philippines which got his stock last March 31, though all black. Stock of silver will be arriving Sat next week April 14, price is very competitive, around 4.1k for the kit of 12-50, might just get mine there.

Manage to see and hold the black unit just today. Black is beautiful, but I like the classic look of the silver. But they told me stock will arrive on May 15? Can anybody confirm the same info?

Silver has arrived, can somebody give us your impression on the paint? Is it just a matte silver paint or a chrome same with E-P3?

This post has been edited by mcgyver: May 10 2012, 06:59 PM

And that's because majority of the people are enjoying the camera rather than bother all those tiny little ergonomics issues you just mentioned and maybe those issues were not really a big issues after all.

If the camera is really good, it will talk by itself, if it's bad, no matter how good the publicity, it will still be bad.

You're right, as long as we enjoy the tools we're using, I don't care to what other people are saying. No product is perfect that will suit everyone's needs. It's just a tool, at the end of the day, it's still the capability of the user that matters most.

The wait is over, after months of waiting for the silver and seeing it in actual, I'm not impressed on the silver finishing. All the while I thought that the silver finish would look like the old OM's or Leica M9 finish or at least same as Fuji X100. I was thinking that the process could use anodized in silver but the actual looks just a painted silver metal paint. So after all the wait, i finally settled for black and it's worth the wait.

Just want to follow-up on this after I bought the camera and hold it, I didn't find much of the ergonomics issues as mentioned on the above post. The only minor things that I see is that the play button is difficult to reach on first use as the LCD blocks it but if you get used with it, it won't be difficult at all as you find techniques how to do it the right way.

Maybe that's the reason why very few people talk about it.

For new to Olympus m43, I suggest read the manual first, read it again and again and again.

There's a good article guide at DPReview, it helps me a lot even I'm a previous owner of E-P2.
User Guide: Getting The Most Out of OM-D

What I did, at the end of the page, there's a Print View, click it, if you're using a Safari or Chrome, you can save it as PDF, copy it on your tablet or smartphone and you're good to go.

Enjoy shooting.

If you read some previous post, the silver finish is not really that nice.
I waited the silver for so long, sacrifices some good deals on the black one just to wait for the silver, and in the end, after seeing it in actual, I got the black one. The silver is not really that good looking as you seen on the photos. If the finish is somewhat same quality with the E-P3, I might take it. If you take a closer look, you can see that the paint is not in good quality compared to black. It looks like it's going to peel off easily, though it's just my personal observation. Maybe that could be the reason why silver has been delayed all over the world as they have some difficulty manufacturing it.

I suggest, you go to store, check both color and see for yourself.

Both color will complement with each other, even if you have black or silver lenses, it doesn't matter.

For me silver if you want:
-retro looking
-crowd drawer
-cool

Black for
-simplicity
-black is beautiful

Go with the kit. This is to maximize the weather-sealing feature of the body. You also get the benefit of the 12mm wide angle, a macro, a power zooming for video, and an extra function button that can be assigned to various settings you like.

It's also cheaper rather than buying body only. If you don't want the lens, just sell it just below the normal price and you still get a good total cost per unit.

Body+kit = 3.9k
Body only = 3.1k
Lens price = 1.6k

Sell the lens for a minimum of 1.2k (this is still cheap), then you get a body price of 2.7k, or if you like the lens, then just keep it.

One of the first few shots from my OM-D.
Uploaded to iPad, converted to black & white using Photoforge 2.



cheers

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Added on May 20, 2012, 9:22 amwith OM 50mm macro




This post has been edited by mcgyver: May 20 2012, 09:22 AM

As being debated in many online community, in the image quality, the difference between APC's and 4/3 sensor are now negligible. As commented by DPReview:

"The E-M5 can't completely overcome the light capture disadvantage brought by its smaller sensor, compared to APS-C, but it reduces it to the point that it's irrelevant for almost all practical purposes. At which point we think its size advantage, in terms of both body and lenses, will outweigh that difference for most uses. If you're absolutely unwilling to compromise on image quality then spending twice the money and moving up to the bulk of full-frame is the only way of gaining a significant step up from the E-M5."

I disagree on your point on the lens aspect, I would say that m4/3 format has the most number of lenses and I don't believe on the category of the professional lenses as even kit lenses can be used by pros.

Speaking of focal length, here are great line of lenses, this is still incomplete considering lenses from 3rd party.
Prime: 12mm f2.0, 20mm f1.7, 45mm f1.8, 45mm f2.8 Macro, 25mm f0.95, upcoming 75mm f1.8, 60mm f2.8 macro weather-sealed.
Zoom: 7-14mm f4.0, 9-18mm f3.5-5.6, 12-50mm OM-D kit lens and the upcoming 14-35mm f2.8 from Panasonic

Here's the complete line of lenses for m4/3

m4/3 Lens Lineup

Sony and other system don't even reach half of what m4/3 have that are specifically designed for mirrorless.

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Added on May 20, 2012, 9:14 pmYou can set-up your OM-D to behave like your D90 wherein after the shot, you can review your shot on the rear screen, no need to press the "Play".
Here's the set-up:
1. Your EVF should be in auto mode. To set, long press the EVF button on the right side of the viewfinder, then set to ON
2. Set your record view time. The default is 0.5 secs, that's why you didn't notice it, don't know why they defaulted it that way. I set mine to 3 seconds, so after the shot, it will be displayed for 3 seconds. You can set to up to 20secs, to immediately go back to shooting mode, just half-press the shutter
To set it, press Menu, go to Settings (wrench icon), select Record View.

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Added on May 20, 2012, 9:51 pmYou can. Just set the Review Display to longer time, mine is 3 seconds.
The default is 0.5 seconds that's why you didn't notice it.


This post has been edited by mcgyver: May 20 2012, 09:51 PM

See sample below just to demonstrate the bokeh capability of the 45mm taken with Olympus E-P2 using 45mm at f1.8, ISO200, 1/500 shutter speed.