On 2/18/2015 5:39 AM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
Thanks. I hadn't seen that. It appears some even more exciting things
are coming in the near future. I also noted this which you won't see
unless you read to the very end of the article.
A strange article, not to be taken seriously. "Mr. Kataoka, General
Manager of Olympus’s product and marketing planning division and the man
behind the R&D of the OM film cameras and the E system" Obviously
completely inaccurate; not only is this guy way too young, but we know
who developed the OM system.
"The advantage that the improved 5-axis image stabilization system gives
OM-D E-M5 ll photographers outweighs simply having more pixels because
it produces better detail in images than a full frame DSLR can handheld,
Kataoka claims. With no mirror action and no mechanical shutter in
electronic shutter mode, the OM-D has no internal vibrations to contend
with and so has a great resolution advantage. He said that resolution
lost to camera shake in DSLRs reduces the advantage of having more pixels."
And this is the guy behind the engineering development of the Pens and
the OM-5 I? All of those had serious problems with shutter shock,
significantly worse than DSLRs. After many years, they finally fix it,
more or less, in the flagship cameras.
Sure, he probably knew about it all the time, may even be the one who
insisted on shutter delay to correct for it. Maybe even fought the
marketers, accountants and lawyers in an effort to admit to it in the
manuals and say what the Anti-Shock really was for and how to use it -
and lost.
I still don't think he gets bragging rights over DSLRs. We still don't
know if shock is really gone with the redesigned mechanical shutter. EFC
is great in many ways, but not so much in others, from geometric
distortion of moving objects to v. limited usability with flash.
I really think he's blowing smoke about shutter shock problems hand held
with DSLRs. As I understand it, the problem comes when the first curtain
closes, with a crash, then reopens to start exposure before the
vibrations die down. Conventional DSLRs aren't live view most of the
time. Their first curtain is closed until it opens to start exposure, so
there is no residual vibration.
The only DLSR I've had with live view is the 60D, which is slow and
clunky enough in that mode, and heavy enough, that shutter shock wasn't
a problem.
Don't get me wrong, I'm still excited about better IBIS, lower shock
mechanical shutter, EFC, full electronic shutter and the other
improvements in the E-M5 II, but this guy sounds like tech marketing
more than engineer in this interview.
Un Convinced Moose