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Join OM SYSTEM team members and Ambassadors across 3 continents and time zones as they discuss what they love about the new OM SYSTEM OM-5.

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34 Comments

  1. Nordic Light Photo Tours

    As Fulltime landscape photographer I love to work with my OIympus gear. The gear shows its versatility and ruggedness, which I believe is so important when you are out in the field and hiking a lot to capture stunning images. It seems however that a lot of the EM1 Mark III has gone into the new OM-5. I understand the reasoning behind this, but I sincere hope that we are getting some new groundbreaking features in the next series of the OM cameras as the competition does not stop! I am shooting the Northern Lights and Astro with my Olympus gear for many years now and hope that OM System will implement the Star Tracer feature. This would be killer feature to have as you do not need a star tracker anymore when hiking up the mountain to photograph the night sky…..it saves so much weight! Break-Free! OM System gooooo!

  8. Steven Thomas

    A very poor and pointless update. Slightly better IS and the rest could have been done via firmware. Really poor OM system.

  11. TL

    Why or why does the EM5 mk3 need to be replaced so soon? What we need is a pure street camera and I have been patiently waiting for the Pen F replacement. Sadly that is not to be, so I shall be switching to Fuji soon to replace my aging Pen F and other Olympus gear. So sad as I have been using Olympus gear for nearly 40 years continuously.

  12. Antun Troha

    The OM-1 was announced as a Wow camera. Very good camera, but far from Wow! Now the OM-5 comes with the E-M1 mk3 processor, but with a sensor that was already outdated when the E-M1 mk3 came out. The same sensor is in the EM-1 mk2. (September 2016) I'm not sure, but I think it's the sensor from the PEN-F (January 2016). Let's be realistic, OM-5 brought absolutely nothing new. All the features are old and crippled. I am disappointed I cannot express how disappointed I am!

  18. David Sax

    I believe in positivity and don't usually comment, but I also believe in trying to be fair and objective when it comes to companies selling us stuff. After watching the review of the new OM-5 on DPReview here it goes….. I currently use the new OM-1. I switched over from the EM1-III mainly for the AF and subject detection upgrades, which I feel are significant and a joy to use. I also prefer the new menu structure and definitely like the added processing speed which if you've used the high res mode for example on earlier models, you'l note it is notably slower than the new camera. All that said, I didn't feel the OM-1 as a whole was a "Wow" type of upgrade, but at least it has been worth it for me. I was looking forward to the OM-5 – hoping for something special and different. Offering something that was complimentary to the OM-1 and an evolution of the line as a whole. I remember when the original EM-5 came out. What a great camera for the time. But now, 10+ years later it seems that what OM System delivered as the OM-5 was a re-purposed EM-5 III body and minimal improvements. Nothing Wow or noteworthy about it. No evolution from what I can see. If you own an EM-5 III would you really upgrade? If you were new to the system compared to the competition, would this be your camera? I really hope that OM-System has something "Wow" in store for us in the near future…..

  19. Kurt K

    Such a disappointing product launch. As a long-time M43 user, I can't help but worry about the future of this system.

  20. tdunster2011

    How could anyone seriously recommend buying this camera when the previous version is available at half the price? Then there's the lack of USB-C and the cheap plastic body which would be difficult to justify on anything half the price let alone at what the OM5 is retailing for.

  22. Ervinslens

    Breathtaking shots and composition my friend. This is fantastic! Simply fantastic! 🔥🔥🔥

  26. anon anon

    extremely disappointing. this is basically an EM5iii with an OM SYSTEM badge on it. checkout the chris nicholls' review over on dpreview. the EM5iii was already dated when it came out, and now with the current rebadge it's a dinosaur. and at a price tag that's unjustifiable from any perspective. you can get more photos and videos in the G9 for less than half the price.

  27. handel1111

    Disappointing ! Bring back Olympus branding. OM System is ugly. Thanks OMDS you just helped me decide to buy Nikon ZFC over this

  28. Dave Bellamy

    I'm hoping for the suucess of OM System cameras because I've been a liker of Olympus gear since 1981 when I was after an OM2N but bought an OM10 so I could also afford a zoom lens. On the launch day of the OM5, I took deluvery of an EM5 Mark iii which suits my budget at the moment as a functional upgrade to the marvellous little EM10 Mark ii that I bought a few years ago.

  30. Alec M

    I think OM systems are going round in ever decreasing circles, someone give them a nudge before it’s too late !

  31. chee ho lim

    Recycling is good, until you are still using the same old sensor as the Em1 Mark II is shameless

  32. Tonnix Ong

    This is really concerning for me to buy om system because of the way to upgrade their new product. It seem like they are moving backwards or slow on competition

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