What is your favourite Olympus/OM system? Let us know in the comments!

@AnastasTarpanov

4 ай бұрын

For my professional work it's OM-1, for travel and pleasure I love the PEN-F and will love to see a new PEN-F version!

Thanks MPB for having me! It's an enjoyable video to showcase these lovely cameras (yeah, there's a MINT OM-D E-M1 with MPB if anyone wants to get it!!)

Jimmy Cheng is such a great presenter. great choice

I’ve always been intrigued by Olympus (having owned the E-P1, and later E-M10ii), but am stuck in the Canon ecosystem professionally. 2023 was the year I dove deep on acquiring dated but stellar performing E-M1ii and E-P5 bodies. They’re a joy to use. Their modest size and the performance of the teeny lenses is outsized. It’s a shame people ragged on the sensor format-I feel like a lot of harm was done to a before-it’s-time system that lead so that Canon, Nikon, etc could follow. MPB has also been a big part of scooping up a system I will only intermittently use for work (95% of my jobs push low light limits, and we can all admit that’s not where OM leads), so I’m glad to see you making nice videos about a brand unfairly bullied by KZread “experts”.

Yeah, after switching from Sony, I have been shooting Olympus cameras for 7 years now and since then I have collected and acquired 8 various Olympus digital and 2 Olympus film cameras. I am still looking for a used good condition Pen F - damm. Thanks Jimmy.

OM-D E-M5 II with 12-45 PRO is my fave kit ever.

Jimmy Cheng is the man!

Great video! I will purchase one of these. Very happy to see what you put together.

Thank you so much, this video was such a helpful one!

It's the friendly Jimmy! Nice chap~

My favourites are a EM-1 Mk 2 with the 12-40 and the EM-5 Mk 3 with the 12-45.

@mpbcom

6 ай бұрын

Thank you for sharing! - Jakub

Great video, what about focus stacking ? which one do you recommend ?

Love my EM1 Mark iii and EM5 Mark ii combo. My full frame Canon 6d has been astro modified and kept purely for night work, these 2 powerhouses do all my landscape stuff.

@mpbcom

Жыл бұрын

Very nice! That is a lovely setup you have got yourself there - Connor

May I ask where you got that grip? It’s the orange metal colored one

Prefer Panasonic cameras generally, but I do like my 45mm 1.8 lens. It's a lovely little thing, packs like an afterthought but produces stunning images.

@mpbcom

Жыл бұрын

Agreed, the Olympus 45mm f/1.8 is a fantastically small and light lens for the quality images it produces! - Connor

I bought in 2016 my first camera ever, all the cameras from Nikon, canon, leica, they’re we’re all DSLR mirror digital cameras. And this wonderful seller, he was an avid fan of Olympus. He introduced me to Olympus and I ended up buying the OM-D 10 (1th gen). It was a kit model, sold for €900. I’m still using that model, and it’s starting to bug me, though it still works fine! The specs are bugging me, especially with wildlife photography I ought to be lucky to get them focused in movement. For portraits and street photography it’s amazing. I cannot wait to upgrade to the om-1, I already made up my mind to go for the 1 series, just not sure if I should go for the latest version, or to buy the em-1 mark iii model. Both of them would be a huge upgrade from what I’ve been using, but if I am going to spend money, I don’t mind if it’s €2000 or €1000, als long as the extra money would mean I’m buying something way more decent than the version prior releases. Does anyone know the difference within the om1/em1 bodies? Any recommendations are welcome. 🙏 😊

@dutchbachelor

4 ай бұрын

@koya5001 People have been shooting wonderful landscapes and wildlife pictures since almost 100 years. No one likes to hear it, but more often then not it's our technique that isn't good enough, not the gear. Some of the nicest landscape shots I did were on a Nikon F75 film camera from 2003. And everyone and his dog wants to make us believe you absolutely MUST have the god-tier camera's to be able to produce decent photographs. That's not true. They make it easier, but it's in no way a guarantee. So yes, even an E-M1 Mk2 should be able to shoot great wildlife pictures and plenty of people have done so. Just look at the image galleries out there. Photography should be about having fun, doing something we love. So if you have money to burn, try out an analog mid-tier SLR with a kit lens. Why? Because it forces you to train your skills in the basic stuff. Like take your time. Nobody does that with digital camera. All I see is people run around, snap a hundred pictures in burst mode of a subject - all from the hand of course - and are disappointed when they come home and there's something wrong with every single picture. Spray and pray. And the newest BTW isn't ALWAYS the best. It all depends on your style of shooting. Expensive also most of the time doesn't equal "the right camera for you". If it's more of a status symbol, sure go right ahead. All the technical innovations do is lower the bar. i.e.: The Image stabilization in the MFT helps you in reaching for a tripod less often but eventually you WILL need it.

Thank you for your video/review. Would you say that the OM-5 is a good entryway into the 4/3 system for a person that does mainly bird and wildlife photography? I was also looking at the Panasonic GX 85, and though it gets excellent reviews, it is an older camera and I’m not sure I would be best served by that camera for the style of photography that I’m doing. Would like to know your thoughts. Thank you.

@dutchbachelor

4 ай бұрын

@mden2490 People have been shooting wonderful landscapes and wildlife pictures since almost 100 years. And you don't always need the god-tier stuff to do so. Unless you do it for a living. No one likes to hear it, but more often then not it's our technique that isn't good enough, not the gear. Some of the nicest landscape and animal shots I did were on a Nikon F75 film camera from 2003. All the technical innovations do is lower the bar. The Image stabilization in the MFT system helps you in reaching for a tripod less often but eventually you WILL need it. In my experience that is something that people overlook a lot: many great pictures were possible to take only with the use of a tripod.

I love both my Xseessessxsssees ... also em1.2

Wonderful overview! But have to ask…did you try pulling the sword out of the stone?

@Red35Photography

9 ай бұрын

I tried, but I am not worthy LOL

Pen F FTW!

@mpbcom

7 ай бұрын

PEN F is an absolutely beautiful camera. Fingers crossed we'll get an updated version some time in the future. Thank you for watching! - Jakub

Just bought a used E-M1 iii from MPB!

@mpbcom

11 ай бұрын

Thank you! It's a great piece of kit. Happy shooting! - Jakub

@shaggyfeng9110

10 ай бұрын

I got em1 for $200. Best value camera ever.

Hi Jimmy, how you doing? Thank you for such a fact-filled video, I think my brain just gained weight! 😁

@mpbcom

9 ай бұрын

We're glad you enjoyed it!

Oly OM-2N

Hey Jimmy, can I take this backpack?

Olympus OM-D E-M1 is Pro model ????Are the 16 MB models even considered Pro?

@mpbcom

6 ай бұрын

Please remember we're talking about a camera released in 2013 here so what was a Pro body back then, may not look like one now. In terms of what makes a camera Pro it is usually not the megapixel count but a robust, weather-sealed body, speed and reliability. So I think even a 16Mp camera can be considered a Pro model. Thank you for watching! - Jakub

@dutchbachelor

4 ай бұрын

Most pictures today are used online only, so they are compressed and cropped anyway. So unless you shoot for billboards and posters where people will pixel peep from up close, why would you need insane Megapixel counts? It doesn't make your image any sharper for the most applications. And for the definition of Pro I agree with Jakub: weather sealing, reliability, ruggedness make this a pro camera. And you can still get great shots with it, even though the pro crowd in most cases has moved on to newer models.

@Pwng

3 ай бұрын

@@dutchbachelorwell you have more room for cropping with higher MP count

Great vid but stop SHOUTING!