Olympus OM-D E-M5 prices and specs
The OM-D E-M5 was released on Feb 8, 2012 and is on sale in USA for $292.99
The OM-D E-M5 is a slr style mirrorless camera. It means that the OM-D E-M5 has smaller size than DSLR cameras but however makes high quality pictures and has different kinds of shooting modes.
The camera can shoot images at 16 megapixels max resolution. But if you want to get better picture quality the more important specification is a sensor size. The OM-D E-M5 has a Four Thirds (17.3 x 13 mm) sensor. The camera with such sensor size will become the best choice if you want to make images of a satisfactory quality but don't want to use big inconvenient DSLR cameras. And if you want to shoot images of the best quality check Nikon D4S.
The Olympus OM-D E-M5 has max shutter speed of 1/4000 sec. It is an average shutter speed which is rather good for taking action images of a very good quality. The Olympus OM-D E-M5 has tilting LCD that will let you to shoot high quality selfies. The Olympus OM-D E-M5 produces high quality videos in Full HD resolution.
The OM-D E-M5 is an interchangeable and has Micro Four Thirds lens mount. If the scene needs special photography conditions, the camera owner can switch lens to a more suitable to get better photos.
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- Feb 8, 2012
- SLR-style mirrorless
- 16 megapixels
- 4608 x 3456
- Four Thirds (17.3 x 13 mm)
- CMOS
- TruePic VI
- 1:1, 4:3, 3:2, 16:9
- 17 megapixels
- Auto (200 - 25600), 200, 400, 800, 1600, 3200, 6400, 12800, 25600
- 12
- Yes (1)
- Sensor-shift
- RAW
- 60 sec
- 1/4000 sec
- Yes
- Yes
- Yes
- Yes
- No
- Yes (via Hot-shoe (FL-50/FL-50R, FL-36/FL-36R, FL-20, FL-14, FL-300R, FL-600R))
- Auto, On, Off, Red-Eye, Fill-in, Slow Sync (2), Manual (3 levels)
- 9.0 fps
- Yes (2 or 12 sec)
- Multi
- Center-weighted
- Spot
- ±3 (at 1/3 EV, 1/2 EV, 1 EV steps)
- (2, 3, 5, 7 frames at 1/3 EV, 1/2 EV, 2/3 EV, 1 EV steps)
- Yes (3 frames in 2, 4, 6 steps selectable in either blue/amber or magenta/green axis)
- Tilting
- 3″
- 610,000
- Yes
- Touch control in electrostatic capacitance type OLED monitor
- Yes
- Electronic
- 100%
- 1.15×
- 1,440,000
- 1920 x 1080 (60 fps), 1280 x 720 (60, 30 fps), 640 x 480 (30 fps)
- H.264, Motion JPEG
- Stereo
- Mono
- Contrast Detect (sensor)
- Multi-area
- Selective single-point
- Tracking
- Single
- Continuous
- Face Detection
- Live View
- No
- Yes (Live view image is magnified when the focus ring is rotated. (at S-AF+MF or MF mode))
- 35
- Micro Four Thirds
- 2×
- 425 g (0.94 lb / 14.99 oz)
- 122 x 89 x 43 mm (4.8 x 3.5 x 1.69″)
- Yes
- Battery Pack
- Lithium-Ion BLN-1 rechargeable battery & charger
- SD/SDHC/SDXC
- USB 2.0 (480 Mbit/sec)
- Yes (Mini HDMI type-D)
- Eye-Fi Connected
- Yes (Optional (RM-UC1))
- No
- None
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