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OMD EM-1 IBIS Noise

Good morning everyone. I picked up my new EM-1 yesterday. So far, seems like a very nice improvement to my EM-5 which I already enjoy.

I have two questions:

1) The IBIS makes a noise when it is operating. My EM-5 does not. Has anyone else noticed this?


2) First few frames look pretty poor in LR 5 - saturation, shadow tonality, even sharpness. I read that LR 5.2 support for EM-1 was considered "preliminary". Has anyone heard of Adobe's plans to address this?

Thanks in advance for your help.

George Pappas
 

Elderly

Well-known member
1) my early EM-5 made an IBIS noise constantly until a firmware fix made it audible only on a half press of the shutter; after the picture was taken the sound stopped.
My EM-1 which I only got yesterday afternoon, acts the same way as the EM-5 after its firmware fix but it does appear to remain audible for slightly longer than I would expect, or remember my EM-5 doing.
 

Godfrey

Well-known member
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1) The IBIS makes a noise when it is operating. My EM-5 does not. Has anyone else noticed this?

2) First few frames look pretty poor in LR 5 - saturation, shadow tonality, even sharpness. I read that LR 5.2 support for EM-1 was considered "preliminary". Has anyone heard of Adobe's plans to address this?
- The E-M1 IBIS does indeed make a little whirring sound for a bit, from when the shutter release is lightly pressed to a second or so after I've released it. I've already stopped hearing it. :)

- LR 5.2 support for the E-M1 was rated "preliminary" and had a fairly rough camera calibration profile. LR 5.3RC removes the "preliminary" tag on E-M1 support: it has a new camera calibration profile and allows the files to be processed with alternative camera calibration profiles, for example the Huelight and Xrite Passport profiles. I'm finding its rendering of E-M1 files much improved in every way.

G
 

lucaloren

Member
I picked up my new E-M1 late last week.

The one aspect of IBIS that really took me aback was the noise level. I am actually finding it louder than I remember on my E-M5.

Can anybody else comment on the relative noise levels between the IBIS on these two cameras?
 
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