Olympus E-M1X Preview - Who needs full-frame? 

Oh my, I have no idea how I missed this video when originally researching the em1x. This is by far the best, most comprehensive feature overview I've seen. You did a truly excellent job and I appreciate the information. Just subscribed. As an em1 mkii owner, this is a serious upgrade for specific use cases, I just wish I could afford it. Thanks again for the excellent info!

This is by far the best in-depth review of features I've seen, bravo. Thanks

Very useful video; thank you. My E-M1X arrived yesterday and though I owned an EM1 mark II three years ago, your video was still helpful and I have altered one of my settings as a result.

The best review of this camera to date..Finally someone who knows what they are talking about..Subscribed and Thanks..from the UK.

Hands down the best E M1X review I’ve seen. The technical focus told me a lot I didn’t know. Thanks!

Outstanding review. No fluff and all substance. Many,, many thanks for your hard work.

Great positive video and thorough preview! So many vids out there that only talks about the cons of this camera. Unfortunate how one's youtube video can kill a product even before people give it a chance especially coming from popular youtubers.

Great reveiw and showing and summarizing all of the important stuff!

Can see now, after this thorough review, how it is the 3k pricing is warranted. Thanks for the great review!

Very good in-depth review. I watched it in 1,5 speed and enjoyed it a lot.

Excellent review without the show and hype. A straight forward and detailed explanation of features. This is the most technically informative video I have seen and the only one that covered all the features and details I was interested in. The limitations of M43 sensors are well established. They are not ideal for very low light or very high ISO (above 3200). But they can be amazing for more. "normal" photography. And quite frankly with a little skill in post processing and shooting RAW you can actually take them higher for normal publication purposes. I am fascinated by the hand held hi-rez. Images I have seen are impressive. Thanks again for a professional and fact-based review. I know you full printed review will touch upon limitations where appropriate. But this video told me. and demonstrated a lot of what I wanted to know. Now if you want more hits, get a scary clown, or a half naked lady, mess up you hair and scream into the camera like a crazy person, and be sure to say that you can't shoot in low light except with a FF camera, and everyone needs to shoot in very low light at very high ISO so must buy a full frame camera and then emphasize how big the E-M1X body is compared to other Olympus bodies, Make certain that you and your image dominates the camera (ignoring the smaller lens size for a comparable angle of view,) and scream some more how Olympus is no good for low light and everyone needs to shoot at high ISO a lot. -- Thanks for a good video preview, and also a good printed online introduction. Will look forward to your full objective tests.

attention to details in this camera is astonishing

Good Video - like it very much because it is so normal spoken and no weiß comments or anything like this. Really refreshing!

Love the X, it is finally THE replacement for my beloved E-5 with grip, albeit a little smaller :)

Finally one company Olympus, standardised the camera.

Very thorough video. I appreciate this kind of work.

Great job Dave, now we know why you spent so much time in Japan recently :)

Hei,this camera look awesome , the auto-focus very impressif .Thank you very mutch for your review

So excited to get ours finally with waiting for the killer deals on Black Friday.

thanks for this fabulous review.

This was a great review/preview and felt very to the point. As a complete sceptic to this camera (not the size though) and it's lack of visible technological advancement you were able to, in many ways, turn me. It looks like, even though they've re-used almost everything (evf, display, cpu, sensor etc) there are some much deeper things underneath the surface. Thanks :)

Well Done! Great to see an excellent positive review highlighting the advantages of the new Olympus OMD e-1 M1X. Only question is, is this the same camera that Jared P previewed in his rants? I will recommend my friends to your review. Thanks.....

Perfect Review for 2021. good job

The build quality 😮😮😮. Maybe the most rugged camera ever! I just bought it minutes ago for video only- just because of the ergonomics. Thanks a lot! I feel that Panasonic is not quite there with the engineering of their hardware. Plus the price and zuico lenses combo is a killer.

awesome review

Excellent review 👍

Amazing video. By the way, I am a canon guy with a fullframe. But a week ago I bought Em1 Mark 1, and boy this camera is amazing! Even for its age. Now I want to buy Em1X next year or as a present for me on New Year. It's a shame that Olympus is leaving the market. :(

Hi, I have a question regarding its viewfinder. I just received my E-M1X the other day (used), was testing and checking it out, then I noticed when I use the viewfinder image seems more "flat" or it feels as though it's using a digital filter. The image that I see on LCD screen is different from the image I see on viewfinder. Is that normal for E-M1X?

Can you custom assign the buttons for portrait mode?

Nice. Great to have animal/bird eye focus.

I love a nonbiased fact-based review. This was excellent.

I might check it out again,since the price dropped a bit...

Amazing Pro review But why Oly removed the Rotating dial on top right? Too bad

Thanks for the review video. This is so much like my lumix G-9. The G-9 has a few more and very little less option. I have 8 lumix Leica and Olympus lens (1-15-22) the price for G9 is around $1,000 and M1X is $1,700 on sell. Don't really need this body but at that price I just cannot pass. Body's in my bag now are, Lumix G9 Lumix LX 100-II NIKON D-800 NIKON D-7500. ORDERED TODAY FROM AMAZON. PS. perhaps at the original price I would pass and buy the NIKON D-850. Now I can buy a 100 to 400 lumix Leica lens and this body for a $3,000 range.

Fantastic review, Dave! Can you clarify: When shooting video, is it recording internally to the SD card at 4-2-2? And also exporting via HDMI to 4-2-2?

Does it come withb1 battery or 2?

So that's it then, leave your FF or APSC cameras on the shelf unless you are printing big or shooting moving subjects at night. Big steps forward from Olympus.

EM1X is so far the best cam on the market.

The AI training is just amazing, we are feeding the AI with what we stream on social media and sure enough the industry is putting it in use, we will see more and more of this and I wonder when Nikon will catch up on this, I have currently the D610 (lol) and I will keep using it until it dies on me.

Im an m43 user, but i have some doubts about this camera, mainly because being focused on sports/action photography, (which means the need for good high ISO performance so you can assure fast shutter speeds), i think it doesn't show any improvement in that matter comparing to other m43 bodies out there, from what i've seen so far on the latest reviews. The improved stabilization and handheld high res, means nothing for action photography, where you still need fast shutter and high ISO, which is once again, the main focus of this camera. The high ISO performance just doesn't look any good. Don´t get me wrong, i really like Olympus, but i start to question if this is the future of m43....

Hello When some thing is too expensive people speaks at it is bad. I have this Body about three month, and my Sony A7r3 and A9 is sitting my desk and gathering dust.

Even now, you can buy it on second hand market is more than enough to avoid buying full frame equipment. Just ISO could be a problem if you need.

This camera actually seems really bad ass, especially if you are into the m4:3 system.. i feel like the only downside is the EVF resolution... but the fact that its 120hz refresh rate and a progressive screen slightly makes up for it.. i hope it drops in price at least a little bit at some point. i wouldn't mind shooting with it.

Awww how cute

Did anyone else catch the subliminal diagram of a heatpipe at 7:46? Hilarious editing there

Bird AI pls

I do not understand the discussion about camera sizes, your hand are THE SiZE in think

R.I.P.

Looks like it’s virtually indestructible

Re weather sealing ! Having owned a 40-150 pro zoom for a year and finding it had moisture inside I would be very careful about the claims Olympus make. They wanted to charge me £400 to fix it. It had hardly ever been exposed to the elements and had been looked after pretty well ( 1 three week trip to Sri Lanka in a good non tropical season was its hardest test) . Their warranty excludes water ingress if you look at the small print, therefore if the lenses are not water tight i would be very dubious about exposing them to " RU-vid type tests". Most of these reviews are with cameras people don't actually own themselves!!

..the right question..!...who needs a fullframe.....for the same or more weight..😂😂

Who needs full frame? Try saying that to Jared Polin. lol

Why are you showing AF tracking on flat TV screen? Show it in real situation when distance to cars is changing rapidly and try to adjust lens zoom while doing it!

Such a big camera for such a small sensor.

9:50 "... very nice view finder system; very high res..." Oh really? VERY high res?

M 4/3 3000 USD hehe

I am a former u43 freak and would love anything Oly launces. But this one..OMG .. old tech packed in one kilogram brig sporting the wold worse EVF and display and thanks for making it even more menu deep... arrrgh! This must be your last gasp ......

Lol let's wait for a real review and comparison to a FF camera costing the same... I can't wait for the fan boys to defend this. My portfolio is made up of 50% of trains so this camera will be bought just for that. Toot toot 🚉 🤣

I was all for it until I saw it was micro 4:3

All the testing confirms it has the same image quality as the EM1 ii, a camera I owned, decent image quality and a great camera, but not good in low light. The auto focus isn't great, and all recent testing confirms that. You have to ignore upfront tests from those invited to the Olympus event, and Olympus 'visionaries' and wait for independent reviewers to assess this camera. Sure, it's got some great gimmicks, but this is a £3k camera, which dispenses with M4/3's USP, of small size and weight. It isn't great for sports and wildlife, and that's where it's being pitched. I've had Olympus cameras for years and love the build quality and the usability, but they have in my opinion, made a huge mistake with this one. Oh, and they've installed the same dated EVF, but that's OK, because you can move your focus points diagonally now, who cares? When they put a full frame sensor in an EM1 ii, then I may migrate back to Olympus, but image quality, autofocus, and low light performance are key deciders for me, not gimmicks added to old technology. I just don't see any market for this camera, and certainly not at the price point it's being pitched at. Despite upfront claims, what we'll see is that the Hi res mode has limited functionality, as does the inbuilt ND filter, which has already been shown to render some very strange effects when photographing water or seascapes.

the question is more who needs this new olympus camera ?! full frame quality of picture is ten times better, all brands : pentax, canon, nikon ...i'd say the same for apsc. 3000 euros, are they crazy ? with this, you can get a fujifilm xt3 + fuji 100-400, with of course, a better quality of image. i had the same qualtiy of image with my previous camera, lumix fz2000. just to let you know. It doesnt mean its bad, its fine, but not for 3000 euros the body's camera...

Comparing a Micro Four Thirds with a Full Frame camera? Really!?

a very poor camera all around, full frame mirrorless is the future

Why does it have to look that ugly?

-But the point is you don't HAVE to add the battery grip to the EM1ii, right? -This is a great viewfinder...4 years ago. As an FYI you lose a little bit of credibility when you don't call a spade a spade. This is a recycled EVF using LCD technology from the same EM1ii. To put it in perspective it has 55% LESS resolution than the Panasonic G9 which was released over a year ago. Sure it increased its magnification. So what. Now you can see the IQ breakdown better when you zoom in? -As for the buffer, the EM1ii also has dual processors so there's no advantage...unless you're writing the same files to both slots and have 2 uhs ii cards inserted. -The new AF Algorithms are cool. It's a shame they don't deploy a firmware update to the EM1ii as it could handle it where it has the exact same 3 year old AF system hardware. -Again the video comments are complete rubbish. "significant strides"???? The specs are the SAME as the EM1ii. It's also worth noting that nobody has ever proven that they can even hit 237mbs. Meanwhile the XT3 can and does hit 400mbs. Come on, guys. Keep it real. -Look it's great to stay positive and I'm sure there's pressure from camera manufacturers who give you pre production perks and what not, but there's a fine line between staying positive and overtly gushing over a camera that has 90% recycled tech and hardware. The EM1x is good. A bit weird in its size and heft, but a good camera. The problem is so is the EM1ii and you can have 90% of the X in that camera for a fraction of the cost.

Who needs full frame is anyone who wants the background completely out of focus and compressed. And the noise at higher ISO on this body is horrific.

For Wildlife this MFT? What a joke. Ever thought that majority of Wildlife pictures, especially birds, is taken early morning or later afternoon where the light is poor. This tiny, dinky sensor based MFT is falling apart at low light. Forget about it. I purchased my Sony A9 for 3000 USD (same as the E-M1X is sold) and this camera really, really delivers. So forget about this MFT. It is about to die anyway.

sorry ive seen shots from this camera in other channels, the pictures are not good, looks like it was shot from a phone. In lowlight its horrible, ISO 3200 is terrible noise. This is why MFT needs to go...its a 3k MFT camera lol, just get a Sony A73 and buy a good lens with the extra 1k, dont be dumb!

This is a crappy camera. Poor low light performance, image quality, auto focus speed. Guys please don't be fooled. Better to buy at least an APSC camera with a good lens.