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| sent on 15 Ottobre 2025
Pros: Lightweight, tiltable screen, well stabilized, tiltable screen, good image quality, tiltable screen, full of features (compatible with the design age. Ah yes: tiltable screen.
Cons: The battery is not charged directly in the room, in subsequent developments the brainy but complete menu and tiltable screen have been abandoned.
Opinion: Never sold, not even when I had bought a mark IV with the idea of replacing it, often used instead of more performing machines on paper just because "I like it". Compared to the mark I, I didn't like the choice of large knobs, but otherwise really a step forward. I hated the complex and incomprehensible menu, but now I wonder what went through the mind of Olympus/Om System to change it, since its completeness made the camera a unicum between configurability, lightness, performance and cost. The same goes for the screen; I do photography, not video, and the articulated screen makes me seasick, I often shoot from below and above and doing it with that makes me lose time, concentration and maybe even photographic quality. I took the OM1 for obvious technological advantages, but I try to avoid my usual shots; when I return to em1 or em10 II I breathe a sigh of relief. The only comparable advance, for me is the Panasonic GX9 (look at how it is made); I tried the mark IV, but the new menu, very poor, depoetized me and I resold it immediately. A word on the image quality that many define as unacceptable from 3200 iso upwards: first of all the stabilization is for this, not to go up too much with the iso, then the development with DXO solves every problem, I took photos of a series of classical music concerts almost all at 6400 iso because of the non-luminous optics (who wants to go and see them, gallery "Duo") and I don't think I would have had extraordinarily better results with 2000 euros more of material. Today she is the queen of the second house, with a couple of vintage Pentaxes, these yes bright, and her grip for when the lens weighs; Being able to photograph with her is pure pleasure. |