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Really pleased with this camera. It has now been up[dated to a Mk II and a vastly higher price for better sensor and some new features. I will probably upgrade to Mk III when a Mk III comes out and the price falls! Lots to learn, but take it slowly! The Landscape setting gives beautiful colours, much better than my previous camera. The seller was great too - so helpful when I need to get hold of a dedicated USB lead which wasn't part of the package (the camera was used)
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-owned
Pro: Well made, solid-feeling but light and small, especially compared to DSLRs. Comfortable grip. Outstanding viewfinder – large and bright. Good to have tilting touch screen. Other controls seem well laid-out. Weather-resistant. Con: Difficult to use: touch screen isn’t used that much, there’s inconsistency in the user interface so you’re never quite sure how to move on or back-out of a situation. Specifics: The menus are strangely complex and non-intuitive. There is a “Super Control Panel” (SCP) that Olympus is rather proud of, that shows the current main settings but which doesn’t help you to actually change any. It takes a double-tap on a setting to bring up a form or sub-screen to change a value, or you can tap on a value and press the OK button on the body. You’re constantly having to use the arrow pad on the camera body when it would have been much simpler to just touch the new setting. In theory you can touch the screen where you want to focus, but this means taking your eye away from the viewfinder and pressing a button (Fn1 or one of the arrow keys) before touching the square on the screen where you want to focus, then pressing the OK button. That provides not much chance of retaining the composition you had. So this facility is only useful when the camera is on a tripod or equivalent. Say you want to change the ISO setting for a particular scene. Press OK to bring up the SCP, touch ISO and press OK (or double-tap ISO). The series of possible values are shown across the bottom of the screen. No you can’t just touch one to select it, you have to use the arrow pad to go left/right then press OK to select it. Oh and if you’re a bit slow selecting, the display reverts to the SCP and if you leave that alone for a second or two it disappears too. There’s no “back” button, whether on the camera or on screen. If you ever select something you didn’t want (or change your mind), you have to wait 10 seconds for the screen to time-out. Then whatever you touch or press doesn’t resume display of what you had been looking at. Infuriating! You never know consistently how to navigate the settings, unless you’re using the menu only. OK, there must be some plus points. The image quality does seem good, the EVF is excellent and the camera is weather resistant. I bought this camera mainly for these reasons. Also the shutter sounds nice! At today’s prices (2018) it’s good value as it is after all a good camera and its success the Mark II is widely available but at 4 to 5 times the price. But when the camera is this hard to use its IQ is irrelevant because it’s going to be sitting in a cupboard most of the time, not giving value. All in all this has been a mistake for me. I was lucky enough to have bought it from a dealer who accepted returns. Conclusion: I’ll stay with my little Lumix GX80 where the touch screen does everything you could expect or want, where the user interface is consistent and intuitive, where there are several physical buttons that you can reassign if you want and where the touch screen acts as a track-pad including while your eye is at the viewfinder and the rear screen is of course blank. The menus are organised reasonably sensibly and there is a rough equivalent of the SCP called QMenu, where you can have one-touch access to your own selection of settings and functions. It’s not weather-resistant so I’ll have to keep using my umbrella or get a plastic bag and its EVF isn’t great, but with the finger-tracking and the overall excellent ergonomics maybe it’s not that important. This camera does go everywhere with me and needs no cupboard. Read full review
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-owned
Compact, packed with features (possibly too many), excellent stabilisation and beautifully made. A delightful camera to use and a very good bargain at current prices. I was also lucky in buying a near mint example from a keen photographer on Ebay. In fact I was so pleased with it that I saved my pennies and recently bought the Mark 2 version, while keeping the Mark 1.
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-owned
The good: Pretty good image quality. Great ergonomics. Small size and light weight. Good control button layout. Great range of lenses available at reasonable prices. The Bad: Menu is a bit hard to navigate at first. Overall: You just want to pick this camera up and use it.
Verified purchase: No
5 Axis IBIS and more thumbwheels than you can shake a stick allows you to swiftly adjust settings and shoot in low light or with long focal lengths. Loads of great features helped by V4.1 firmware upgrade such as focus stacking and bracketing. Perfect size, weather sealed and plenty of good lenses to choose from. Seller had exceptional low price and delivery was next day.. The menus are comprehensive but great fun to chew through - they all make sense (mostly).
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: New
