Joshua Waller looks at a new Micro Four Thirds flagship, with a number of updates including the world’s first in-camera live Grad ND filter
Buffer Doubled in size for increased continuous shooting (up to 256 raw shots).
Autofocus Improved continuous AF performance is promised.
High-res multi-shot This feature now supports 14-bit raw recording.
Live Grad ND The world’s first in-camera live graduated ND filter is on board.
OM System has updated its previous flagship camera, the OM-1, with a new OM-1 Mark II version. It only seems like yesterday that the OM-1 was first announced, but it’s actually been nearly two years!
If you’re au fait with the OM-1 already, then much of this will be familiar to you, so let’s start with some of the changes introduced with the new Mark II.
New features include the World’s first Live Graduated ND filter, which is built into the camera. The existing LiveND filter option has been improved with an additional stop (to 7 stops total). The high-resolution multi-shot mode now supports 14-bit raw shooting.
For fans of continuous shooting, the buffer has doubled in size, allowing for up to 213 raw shots at 120fps, and up to 256 raw shots when shooting at 50fps with continuous AF. The AF system has also been improved with better tracking as well as better AF during video. Subject detection was already quite impressive, with cars, planes, trains, birds, and dogs and cats fully catered for, but now human detection has been added (on top of face detection).
