Good old days: Olympus E-5

Olympus, which led the camera industry into the mirrorless era together with Panasonic by the M4/3 system, confirmed the sale of its camera business to Japan Industrial Partners Inc. (JIP), and according to public information, the details of the deal are about to be finalized at the time of this writing. At this time, I want to talk about the legendary DSLR – The last 4/3 cameras OLYMPUS E-5.

Equivalent: f/4.0 are always f/4.0

Once I went to a studio for attending a pre-wedding photographing event. I was interested in the studio lighting operation. The photographer told me his exposure settings and let me had a try. He shot with a 35mm format DSLR and I used 4/3 format camera E-M1. As a result, we found that we obtained the same result while we used identical exposure settings. I often see someone stated that because of crop factors, the shutter speed of smaller format systems will be slower, or the ISO sensitivity will be higher with the same aperture settings. I would like to […]