Although we know that Olympus E-P5 borrowed the design of Oba's classic half-SLR camera pen F before its release, we were still very excited when we saw the real machine. Olympus E-P5 is the first camera in the whole E-P series with classic silver-black color matching. Today, with the prevalence of retro style, it will undoubtedly attract more consumers to pay attention to this high-quality mirrorless camera.
For male users who pursue quality.
Olympus E-P5 is equipped with a brand-new16 megapixel Live MOS sensor, TruePic VI image processor, ISO 100-25600, mechanical shutter speed 1/8000 seconds, and built-in improved five-axis anti-shake function. At the same time, Olympus E-P5 is also the first pen camera with built-in Wi-Fi function in Olympus, which supports remote shooting with smart phones. However, the dust-proof and splash-proof function of E-M5 is not added.
▲ mirrorless cameras E-P5, the latest flagship of Olympus, is the top mirrorless cameras OM-D E-M5 before the sword finger, and even surpasses the Olympus E-M5 in many parameters, such as the highest shutter speed of E-P5 1/8000 seconds, improved five-axis anti-shake, peak focusing and WiFi function. However, the positioning of the two cameras is still different. Olympus OM-D E-M5 is suitable for professional users, while Olympus E-P5 is aimed at male users who are more interested in quality.
Reproduce the legendary shape and perfectly interpret the texture.
▲ Olympus E-P5 and Olympus PEN F The design of Olympus E-P5 is inspired by the classic semi-SLR camera PEN F, especially the silver version, whether it is from the body color matching or other? Olympus pen? The word "PEN F" on the top of the fuselage or the same streamlined design, we can all see the shadow of PEN F on the Olympus E-P5.
▲ olimp E-P5 From the picture, maybe you can't feel the real texture of olimp E-P5 camera. Only when you really hold this camera in your hand can you appreciate the design intention of E-P5.
▲ The overall body of Olympus E-P5 is made of magnesium-aluminum alloy. The whole body of Olympus E-P5 is made of magnesium-aluminum alloy. What's even more rare is that this camera adopts a special seamless production process. Except for the bottom of the fuselage, there are no screw holes on the whole periphery of the fuselage. Compared with the previous generation product E-P3, E-P5 has improved the design of the handle, making it more in line with the use habits of the human body.
▲ Top view of Olympus E-P5 fuselage The switch design of Olympus E-P5 has become a lever design, so if the camera is not operated within one minute in the on state, the camera will automatically enter the standby state instead of automatically shutting down. The advantage of this is that you can wake up the camera whenever you want to shoot after starting the machine, and you don't need to start it repeatedly.
▲ 2X2 dual dial control system of Olympus E-P5 Revolution. I think the biggest highlight of Olympus E-P5 is the addition of this brand-new 2X2 dual dial control system. The two dials in tandem and the pull rod behind the fuselage make the overall control of the camera reach a new height. The former PEN F opened an era of PEN series with the concept of semi-camera, and the 2X2 dual-dial control system of E-P5 will surely become a widely acclaimed design in the future. In the following article, we will analyze this 2X2 dual-dial control system in detail.
▲ Olympus E-P5 carefully designed the size and position of each button on the back. The design of the back of the Olympus E-P5 is also quite different from that of the E-P3. The size and position of the buttons have been redesigned, such as putting the delete button and the play button with low usage rate at the bottom.
▲ A 3-inch 1.04 million-pixel reversible touch LCD screen is added to the back, which is another welcome upgrade. However, after actual use, I feel that this LCD screen, like the LCD screens of most cameras at present, is relatively ordinary under strong light. So it is really inconvenient to have no electronic viewfinder, which is why people expected E-P5 to join the electronic viewfinder.
Olympus official explanation for the viewfinder is:? I once considered adding an electronic viewfinder when designing the E-P5, but finally gave up the idea after balancing the electronic viewfinder and the size of the fuselage. ? However, although no electronic viewfinder was added, when Olympus launched the E-P5, it also introduced a VF-4 external electronic viewfinder with 2.36 million pixels, 1.48 times magnification and 100% field of view.
▲ It's not nice with an external electronic viewfinder. Personally, I think the addition of this external electronic viewfinder affects the beauty of the whole camera, so it is imperative to build an internal electronic viewfinder, but I don't know if it will appear in the next generation E-P camera.
▲ Olympus E-P5 is equipped with 1220mA battery. Olympus E-P5 is equipped with the same BLN- 1 1220mA lithium battery as E-M5. This is 70 mA larger than 1 150 mA of electron P3. In the actual test, this battery has a good battery life without using WiFi. Basically, according to the shooting frequency of outbound travel, it is no problem to support one day to one and a half.
▲ The lens tested is m.zd17mf1.8. This evaluation is matched with Olympus M. Zuiko Digital17mf1.8 lens. This lens is designed with 6 groups of 9 lenses, with the nearest focal length of 0.25m and the equivalent focal length of 34mm. At the same time, this lens also uses the ultra-high-speed silent autofocus technology MSC (movie and static compatibility), which can make the M4/3 lens focus faster and quieter when shooting still pictures or videos.
▲M.ZD 17mm F 1.8 can be turned into a manual lens with depth of field calibration. When we push back the focus in front of the lens, the lens will expose a complete depth of field scale, and this lens will become a manual pan/tilt.
▲ Silver M.ZD 17mm F 1.8 lens looks better with E-P5. When E-P5 was launched, the black version of 17mm 1.8 was released, but the silver lens of 17mm with silver E-P5 looks better and has more texture, with an equivalent focal length of 34mm.
Revolutionary 2X2 Double Dial Control System
The design principle of 2x2 double dial control system is that four parameters commonly used in photography can be quickly adjusted by rotating the dial: aperture/shutter speed, exposure compensation, ISO and white balance. By default, the front dial of the camera controls exposure compensation and the rear dial controls aperture/shutter speed. By switching the function lever, you can switch the function of the front dial to control ISO/ white balance, and the function of the rear dial to control white balance /ISO. ?
▲2X2 double dial control system 2X2 double dial control system is a design that Olympus is proud of. Did E-P5 use it? Revolutionary design? Such an evaluation, but I personally prefer to call this design a model of humanized design. The serial dial on Olympus E-P5 camera is designed very smoothly, and the gears on the dial feel excellent and the gears are clear.
▲2x2 double dial control system. You can recall that which camera can directly control exposure compensation without any menu buttons while controlling the aperture or shutter? Or can you control the white balance without any key operation while adjusting the sensitivity? The answer is no, no camera can achieve this effect before the introduction of E-P5.
▲ Mode lever behind the fuselage, of course, here we have to focus on this mode lever behind the fuselage. This lever plays a vital role in 2X2 double dial control system, but its function is far more than that.
▲ There are four modes for the function of the pull rod, which can be selected through the relevant settings in the camera menu. This joystick can also switch video shooting and focusing modes. Here I want to emphasize the point of switching the focus mode, but after we select model4 in the camera, we can switch two preset focus modes only by switching the lever mode. For example, I set up single-point autofocus in mode 1 and manual focus in mode 2, so I can quickly switch between these two focusing modes by simply pulling this lever. Is it convenient to have wood? Personally, I think it is really convenient.
However, before she began to focus on our peak, we called a thousand times and urged it a thousand times.
Since E-P5 can switch AF and MF so easily, it's really a pity that this camera is designed with such care if the manual focusing function is not improved. However, E-P5 did not disappoint. Olympus added a peak focusing function to this camera to assist manual focusing.
▲ Peak Focus Demonstration You may wonder why we have called this peak focus function a thousand times and urged it a thousand times before she started coming to us. The reason is very simple, because we all know that the mirrorless camera is the best medium to transmit the old-fashioned manual lens (the flange distance has an advantage), and there is no one. However, as one of the first manufacturers to join the field of mirrorless cameras, Olympus has been slow to add the peak focusing function to the camera, which is really puzzling.
▲ There are fewer peak focusing options on the Olympus E-P5. At first, I thought I would see the peak focusing function on the E-M5, but in the end, I found it was just an empty joy. So it's a little comforting that E-P5 has added the peak focusing function this time.
But it may be the first time to try to add the peak focusing function. Olympus E-P5 has few peak focusing options. At present, there are only two peak colors, white and black, and there is no way to choose the order of magnitude of the peak.
. Create your own unique camera.
Olympus E-P5 is a camera that needs to be savored. If you think that knowing all the key functions of this camera is equivalent to mastering this camera, it is all wet.
If you don't study every menu option of this camera carefully, you won't find that the buttons of this camera can be redefined except the mode dial and shutter, so the positioning of this camera must be those users who pay great attention to details.
▲ Olympus E-P5, a menu interface with button function, allows each user to have a camera that only meets his own habits. After all, this is an era dominated by personality, and the sameness has long been out of date. If a thousand people have a thousand Hamlets in their eyes, they will have a thousand different E-P5 users.
High resolution color saturation can directly output JPG.
Olympus E-P5' s 654.38+06 megapixel Live MOS sensor and TruePic VI image processor have achieved the same imaging effect as Olympus E-M5. The resolution of the center and edge of the picture is good. Although this camera only uses a small CMOS sensor with M4/3 specification, the image quality presented is not lost to that of a SLR camera.
Of course, the final high resolution is also related to the lens. The Olympus 17mm 1.8 lens we tested at the same time also achieved good resolution performance, especially in the performance of image edge resolution.
However, when the maximum aperture of lens F 1.8 is 17mm F 1.8, the picture appears purple edge phenomenon. After the aperture is reduced to F5.6, the resolution will be significantly improved.
Therefore, when using the lens of 17mm F 1.8, I suggest that you shoot with the aperture of F5.6-F8 as much as possible, so that the picture resolution will reach a better level.
The lens focal length of Olympus 17mm 1.8 is 34mm. Although it belongs to a wide-angle lens, it can be seen from the actual proofs that the distortion of this lens is well controlled. This kind of performance will also make me feel more at ease to use this hanging head which is very suitable for sweeping the street.
Olympus 17mm 1.8 adopts the design of seven diaphragm blades inside the lens. However, when the aperture of F 1.8 is fully opened, the dispersion circle in the center still presents a heptagon, and no circle in the strict sense can be found in the figure. For friends who value the Jiao Wai effect, the performance of this lens may be average, but I personally think this shape is like this.
As mentioned above, Olympus E-P5 adopts a reversible touch screen, which plays a great role in shooting special angles. For example, when I took this photo, I met a flower at a higher position, but E-P5? Reversible LCD screen+touch shooting function? Directly solved my problem.
Moreover, E-P5 follows the characteristics of high saturation of Olympus camera, and basically the straight JPG can get more gorgeous colors without going through the later stage.
E-P5 is gorgeous and tasteful, but it can also retain many details in the picture, which is very suitable for shooting colorful natural scenery and still life.
Faster and more accurate focusing system
Anyone who knows a little about Olympus E-M5 should know that this camera has a very fast focusing speed and is very accurate. E-P5 benefits from the optimization of processor speed and operation speed, which makes the ultra-high-speed autofocus fast autofocus system from E-M5 faster. Not only that, I am very satisfied with the focusing performance of the fast autofocus system on the dark part.
▲E-P5' s super single-point autofocus not only improves the focusing speed, but also improves the focusing accuracy. This is the super single-point autofocus of this camera.
The super single-point autofocus function is very practical when shooting more accurate key shots in a specific range, such as high-magnification macro shooting. It can accurately focus on very small objects, even smaller than the focus area of phase difference detection.
For example, when we shoot flowers, super single-point focusing can help us express the posture of flowers more accurately.
High sensitivity ISO 1600 is the limit.
From the above picture, the limit luminosity that Olympus E-P5 can use should be ISO 1600. The details of image quality below ISO 800 are well preserved. Up to ISO 1600, some details began to be lost, up to ISO 3200 and above, noise began to increase, and details were seriously lost.
Improved five-axis anti-shake
Olympus E-P5 uses the same five-axis anti-shake function as the E-M5. This function has been widely praised on E-M5, and the anti-shake effect is obvious. However, the five-axis anti-shake of E-P5 is slightly improved compared with E-M5. As we all know, five-axis anti-shake is the shake calibration of XYZ three-axis rotation, and the effect can reach -5EV anti-shake. But for many friends who need to shake, the horizontal anti-shake in the five-axis anti-shake completely dispels their creative desire.
▲E-P5 is improved on the basis of E-M5 five-axis anti-shake. Olympus partially improved the five-axis anti-shake function on the E-P5, and achieved a more targeted five-axis anti-shake, horizontal anti-shake or vertical anti-shake mode.
At the same time, the newly added IS-AUTO mode can automatically detect camera shake, which can provide more effective anti-shake effect for horizontal translation, vertical translation or translation at any angle. Moreover, in the process of shooting video, the improved five-axis anti-shake can also play an excellent stability.
For example, for an object moving at a high speed like a skier, the best way to show the kind of movement during the movement is to use the method of shaking. However, when panning, it is necessary to use the anti-shake function to achieve certain stability, so the improved five-axis anti-shake function of E-P5 can better complete the special shooting mode such as panning.
Of course, in the process of our daily life, we can also create such works at any time, such as a street with dense traffic, a shopping mall with people coming and going, or an alley full of Beijing flavor. E-P5 can help people complete their ideas as long as they can think of them, which is why we use cameras.
The shutter speed of 1/8000 seconds reaches the level of SLR.
The high performance of E-P5 goes far beyond the improved five-axis anti-shake. The shutter speed of this camera is as high as 1/8000s, which is directly equal to the top digital SLR camera. Many people may be asking, is the shutter speed of 1/8000s really common? After reading the following photos on the internet, you must have the answer in your heart.
The shutter speed of 1/8000s can freeze the moments that can't be captured by human eyes, freeze the fleeting expression of the model, freeze the state of splash, and even freeze the birds flying in the sky. Another advantage of 1/8000s speed is that users can safely use the large aperture of F 1.8 in the scorching sun to obtain ideal blur effect.
Rich filter effect makes people love taking pictures more.
Olympus E-P5 has built-in 12 artistic filter effect, and my most commonly used filter effects are photo nostalgic particle effect and drama effect. These two effects have appeared on E-P cameras before Olympus, but I still think these two effects are the most popular among all the effects. Especially the nostalgic graininess effect of photos, this effect presents a very delicate graininess, emitting a film flavor from the inside out.
▲ 12 kinds of filter effects Once a brand borrowed the photography style of the famous Japanese photographer Daido Moriyama when advertising a camera, but I think the black-and-white grain effect achieved by the nostalgic grain effect of Olympus photos is a more realistic restoration of Daido Moriyama's photography style. If I get an E-P5, I will only take advantage of its nostalgic grain effect and continue shooting.
Photo nostalgic particle effect display:
The dramatic effect shows:
Other filtering modes display:
In addition to these 12 filter modes, E-P5 also has a surround filter mode called BKT in the filter mode. That is to say, if you don't know which filter effect should be used to express one, you can just choose BKT mode directly, because if you press the shutter once in this mode, the camera will automatically generate 12 different filter effects according to this scene and solve all of them at once.
Interesting jigsaw puzzle function makes people fall in love with life.
Interesting puzzles are also the attraction of this camera. At least in today's extremely popular social networks, everyone hopes that they can upload more interesting photos.
Want to buy clothes, use Olympus E-P5 to spell out a picture and share it with you. Of course, this can also be used as a new way for fashionable men to record their daily wear.
Record every picture with a fun photo frame when eating every day, and you will have your own diet strategy after a while.
Even if you walk aimlessly, using the interesting puzzles of Olympus E-P5 to record the dribs and drabs around you has a unique charm.
Keep up with the trend of WiFi function
Olympus E-P5 is the first pen camera with built-in Wi-Fi function. It can be connected with smart devices through a dedicated Olympus image sharing application, which expands the shooting experience and facilitates sharing works with friends and family.
Touch the Wi-Fi icon and read the special QR code for Wi-Fi connection on the camera screen through OI. Smart phone sharing application allows you to connect quickly and get rid of the cumbersome Wi-Fi connection settings in the past. And cooperate with the remote control function of OI. Share, you can view the camera in real time while shooting remotely. Touch the live view screen on your smartphone, and you can focus on touching and releasing the shutter just like you do on a camera.
Through the geographical location information recording function of OI. Sharing, high-precision GPS location information can be easily imported into camera photos.
Olympus Image Sharing has advanced image processing functions, including 12 artistic filters. By discovering interesting puzzles, you can share more interesting photos and add various seals or handwritten signatures to them.
Olympus E-P5 can connect up to 4 devices at the same time. Through OI. Share application of smart phone can easily read the QR code used for Wi-Fi connection on the camera screen, and get rid of the cumbersome Wi-Fi connection settings in the past.
Unfortunately, we can't show you the WiFi function of this camera, because Olympus E-P5 has not been officially launched, so at present, Olympus has not launched an Olympus picture sharing version that can scan the QR code for this camera in Apple's App Store or Google Play.
Final evaluation summary:
After using the Olympus E-P5, I basically take this camera out to take pictures whenever I get a chance. Because I like the control of this camera, its very textured appearance and rich filters, which make me feel that it is a wonderful thing to record my life.
Of course, there are some personal factors in it, because I personally like the retro appearance, so this time Olympus launched the silver version of the E-P5, which also made me feel much better about this camera. Generally speaking, there is nothing wrong with this camera, all the functions are satisfactory, and there are many more practical functions on this camera. The only drawback may be that there is no electronic viewfinder. Some people may think that the electronic viewfinder is not the most important, but from the practical experience, an electronic viewfinder is still very useful.
At present, this camera is not on the market, but I personally think this camera is definitely worth buying. Previously, we generally estimated that the price of this camera plus a 14-42mm kit was about 7000-8000 yuan, which was a little high and might discourage many friends who like this camera. So if the price is really more than 7000 yuan, friends with financial resources can buy it directly. For friends with insufficient budget, I suggest patience and so on.
Advantages:
1.2X2 Double Wave Disc Control System
2.1/8000s shutter speed
3. Ultra-high speed autofocus fast autofocus system.
4. Improved five-axis anti-shake
5. Rich filtering modes
6.WiFi function
Disadvantages:
1. Without electronic viewfinder.
2. There are fewer colors available for peak focusing.
3. The focus mode cannot be changed in filter mode.