Olympus OM-D EM10 with Power Zoom Pancake M.Zuiko Digital ED 14-42mm 1:3.5-5.6 EZ Lens - Silver/Silver (16.1MP, Live MOS ) 3.0 inch Tiltable LCD

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Here’s three images I took of a simple macro still life arrangement using the EM10 Mark III and the Olympus 14-42mm kit zoom at 42mm. This makes it much easier to find than before, but means you can’t choose the exposure mode to shoot in; now on the Mark III, the Silent mode effectively uses Program only. Instead USB charging allows you to top-up using a portable battery, laptop socket, car adapter, or of course any number of AC to USB adapters you or anyone else might have to hand for other devices. Its Fine Detail II Engine, meanwhile, can apply Olympus lens-specific distortion and aberration adjustments, helping to deliver optimal image quality. It’s easy to style a digital camera like an old film SLR, but doing so can often compromise modern controls simply for the sake of looks.

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Further control over images is given via the Colour Creator, Highlight and Shadow and Aspect Ratio controls. In terms of composition, the EM10 Mark III is identical to its predecessor, with an OLED viewfinder or a tilting touchscreen. Note the USB tethering to a Mac or PC using Olympus Capture software is not supported on the EM10 III – you’ll need to go for the EM5 II or EM1 for that. Although it's not possible to record normal 4K movies with the E-M10 II, Olympus has improved upon the original EM10's time lapse feature with the ability to create 4K time lapse movies in-camera, although playback is limited to 5fps. frames per second (up from 8fps) when the focus and metering is set at the start of the sequence, 4fps shooting with continuous autofocusing and metering, an electronic shutter that allows shutter speeds of up to 1/16000 sec, a silent mode and a small pop-up flash in addition to a hot-shoe.Keen videographers will appreciate the fact that there's greater control over video settings and it's possible to record Full-HD footage at a maximum of 60fps (frames per second) and VGA footage at 120fps. Olympus has also sensibly moved the bracketing options from their previous location in the menus to their new home in the AP mode where you can choose from exposure or focus bracketing. I used this lens a lot when testing Olympus bodies and love the combination of small size with the chance to achieve shallow depth of field results, not to mention working in low light without bumping the ISO up too much.

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Starting with exposure bracketing, the two and seven frame options of the Mark II have gone, leaving the choice of three frames at 1EV increments or five frames at 0.I know this is the traditional (and still most common) way of doing things, but I find the option of recharging a battery in-camera over USB so much more convenient when I’m travelling or simply out and about as I don’t need to bring the charging unit, nor find an available AC outlet for it. Olympus O-MD cameras have traditionally been strong for dynamic range, and the new E-M10 IV is no exception. On the upside, it’s very accurate for static subjects and has also proven to work well in low light. This DFD technology certainly improves the performance, but still can’t match the confidence of the phase-detect AF systems now being embedded into most of the sensors used by the competition.