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!!)
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.
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 RUclips “experts”.
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.
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.
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. 🙏 😊
@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.
If you take only one shot, you've put all your eggs in one basket. So more spraying, LESS praying. Just because someone comes up with some catchy cliche doesn't mean it's true. Sounding clever while being dumb. But just to reiterate , the more shots you take the greater your chances of a keeper and hence the less you are praying for one.
@@dutchbachelor absolutely agree with you, I’ve been shooting analog for three years now and is has changed my view on photography so much. Currently I go out with my analog of digital, I often shoot more (or less) with my analog versus my digital. The type and style of photos are completely different though. I do street photography with my digital, and often close ups of weird things I notice, and portraits with my analog. But there’s one thing I love, you wait, you observe, you play with the framing, and you shoot just one picture. While with digital you take quickly a few reps of the same angle, then with a slight different angle and settings, and you end up having to sort 20 pictures of the same damn thing. The ones left that are all good are still too many, meaning you should delete the bunch and remain with 1/2 good photos. I said should, because I’m not good at deleting picture that are good, and definitely have to work on killing my own darlings in order to sort out my archives.
@@dutchbachelor doesn’t change I want an upgrade for my OM body. 😅 I just went on holidays, and it’s starting to lag, in twilight is absolutely sheit at getting stable images. I do want that convenience, because I’m often shooting from the hand for a reason. Main reason being that a light tripod costs insanely much, and I refuse to carry around a 1-2kg tripod with me. I got my gorrila pod with me for night shooting, it isn’t perfect but it functions.
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.
@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 was about to pull the trigger on an OM-1 and two lenses and had the items in my shopping basket at OM's own online shopping site. However since I had a question regarding a current promotion connected to the OM-1 I did contact customer support via the link on their website. This was three days ago, and I haven't heard back since. If this is their pre-sales communication, I wonder how bad will post-sales communication be. That's just not good enough for me. You can make the best products, but if you don't communicate with customers properly it's not worth it.
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
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.
What is your favourite Olympus/OM system? Let us know in the comments!
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!
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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
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.
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 RUclips “experts”.
OM-D E-M5 II with 12-45 PRO is my fave kit ever.
Jimmy Cheng is the man!
My favourites are a EM-1 Mk 2 with the 12-40 and the EM-5 Mk 3 with the 12-45.
Thank you for sharing! - Jakub
It's the friendly Jimmy! Nice chap~
Wonderful overview! But have to ask…did you try pulling the sword out of the stone?
I tried, but I am not worthy LOL
Most informative, thanks for posting.
Thank you for making this video especially for me 😁
Great video, what about focus stacking ? which one do you recommend ?
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.
Agreed, the Olympus 45mm f/1.8 is a fantastically small and light lens for the quality images it produces! - Connor
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.
Very nice! That is a lovely setup you have got yourself there - Connor
Thank you so much, this video was such a helpful one!
Pen F FTW!
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
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. 🙏 😊
@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.
If you take only one shot, you've put all your eggs in one basket. So more spraying, LESS praying. Just because someone comes up with some catchy cliche doesn't mean it's true. Sounding clever while being dumb. But just to reiterate , the more shots you take the greater your chances of a keeper and hence the less you are praying for one.
@@dutchbachelor absolutely agree with you, I’ve been shooting analog for three years now and is has changed my view on photography so much. Currently I go out with my analog of digital, I often shoot more (or less) with my analog versus my digital. The type and style of photos are completely different though. I do street photography with my digital, and often close ups of weird things I notice, and portraits with my analog. But there’s one thing I love, you wait, you observe, you play with the framing, and you shoot just one picture. While with digital you take quickly a few reps of the same angle, then with a slight different angle and settings, and you end up having to sort 20 pictures of the same damn thing. The ones left that are all good are still too many, meaning you should delete the bunch and remain with 1/2 good photos. I said should, because I’m not good at deleting picture that are good, and definitely have to work on killing my own darlings in order to sort out my archives.
@@dutchbachelor doesn’t change I want an upgrade for my OM body. 😅 I just went on holidays, and it’s starting to lag, in twilight is absolutely sheit at getting stable images. I do want that convenience, because I’m often shooting from the hand for a reason. Main reason being that a light tripod costs insanely much, and I refuse to carry around a 1-2kg tripod with me. I got my gorrila pod with me for night shooting, it isn’t perfect but it functions.
Just bought a used E-M1 iii from MPB!
Thank you! It's a great piece of kit. Happy shooting! - Jakub
I got em1 for $200. Best value camera ever.
May I ask where you got that grip? It’s the orange metal colored one
Hi Jimmy, how you doing? Thank you for such a fact-filled video, I think my brain just gained weight! 😁
We're glad you enjoyed it!
Oly OM-2N
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.
@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
Great video! I will purchase one of these. Very happy to see what you put together.
so hard to get the pen-F now... sigh
We have a decent stock, depending on where you are: www.mpb.com/product/olympus-pen-f 😉 Thank you for watching! - Jakub
Not buying anymore from mpb. Ricoh GRiii brand new from Ricoh website (in stock by the way) cost less than second hand from MPB xD
Seen 10 Olympus videos now. Nobody talks about viewfinder differences.
I was about to pull the trigger on an OM-1 and two lenses and had the items in my shopping basket at OM's own online shopping site. However since I had a question regarding a current promotion connected to the OM-1 I did contact customer support via the link on their website. This was three days ago, and I haven't heard back since. If this is their pre-sales communication, I wonder how bad will post-sales communication be. That's just not good enough for me. You can make the best products, but if you don't communicate with customers properly it's not worth it.
Hey Jimmy, can I take this backpack?
Typo in the title.
Corrected! Thank you for spotting that. - Jakub
Olympus OM-D E-M1 is Pro model ????Are the 16 MB models even considered Pro?
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
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.
@@dutchbachelorwell you have more room for cropping with higher MP count
Great vid but stop SHOUTING!