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The camera's movie capabilities have also been greatly enhanced, not just with the addition of 1080/60p shooting and an All-I, 77Mbps compression option for 30p capture, but also with the arrival of a series of supporting features. This uses the camera's sensor-shift system to move the sensor to eight fractionally different positions and create a high-resolution composite image from these eight exposures. The standout change for stills shooters is likely to be the 40MP multi-shot mode. 1/8000th sec maximum shutter speed (1/16000th with electronic shutter).10fps continuous shooting, 5fps with AF.Improved 5-axis image stabilization in both stills and movie modes.Without access to a higher pixel-count sensor, it's not obvious what else Olympus could have added to the Mark II. Nonetheless, Olympus has probably done as much as it can to move things forward.Ĭlose examination of the camera shows that almost every aspect of its design has been tweaked, refined and polished. But how could it be? Cameras such as the Sony's a6000 and a7, and Samsung's NX1 have raised the expected level of capability so far that it would be hard for any new model to represent as much of a breakthrough.
Sure enough, the E-M5 II doesn't feel like as big a step forward as its predecessor was. Technology has moved forward since the first OM-D was launched but simply bringing the camera up-to-date risks feeling like a let down. And, it must be said, it's quite a challenge. How do you follow up a classic? A little more time is going to have to pass before the E-M5 can truly wear that mantle but I have little doubt that that's the question Olympus's engineers and product planners have been asking themselves. The most obvious additions are its more advanced movie capabilities and a clever multi-shot 40MP mode, but you have to look a bit more closely to see how much work Olympus has put into this new model. In fact, at first glance it looks relatively unchanged. Olympus's OM-D E-M5 II is, like its predecessor, a small, attractive and usable 16MP camera.