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
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