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The Olympus OMD EM1 Mk II Can Be Handheld for 15 Seconds And Get Clean Exposures

Chris Gampat
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11/03/2016
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Last Updated on 11/03/2016 by Chris Gampat

Last night, we were out with Olympus at Chelsea Piers in NYC getting some personal hands on time with the new Olympus OMD EM1 Mk II. We got to play with it in Iceland, and at Photokina, and last night we got to do something really crazy with the camera. Olympus claims up to 6.5 stops of image stabilization. So last night, we put that to the test and were quite surprised.

We tested the camera with the 300mm f4 and the 12-40mm f2.8. Check out what we got last night. Remember, this is all handheld and done by holding my breath. In fact, I ended up feeling sort of woozy last night after trying to stabilize my breath and body over and over again.

Olympus 300mm f4

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ISO-800 1/4-sec-at-f-4.0. Olympus 300mm f4

A quarter of a second is pretty good at such a long focal length!

Olympus 12-40mm f2.8

Now here’s where we really had our minds blown. Totally handheld, by holding my breath and getting as stable shots as I could. There’s a ton of innovation and truly game changing technology here that professional and enthusiast photographers alike should really, really be paying attention to. Forget the whole school of thought that says “It’s Micro Four Thirds” when you can do this with a camera, who really cares?

They’re all so good these days to begin with. We’re still working on a full review, but know that it’s coming soon.

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ISO-8000 0.8-sec-at-f-4.0
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ISO-800 20.0-sec-at-f-13 (here’s where I screwed up and couldn’t hold it any more.
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ISO-800 15.0-sec-at-f-13
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ISO-800 8.0-sec-at-f-9.0
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ISO-800 4.0-sec-at-f-8.0
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ISO-800 2.0-sec-at-f-4.0
image Long Exposure Olympus OMD EM1 Mk II
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Chris Gampat is the Editor in Chief, Founder, and Publisher of the Phoblographer. He provides oversight to all of the daily tasks, including editorial, administrative, and advertising work. Chris's editorial work includes not only editing and scheduling articles but also writing them himself. He's the author of various product guides, educational pieces, product reviews, and interviews with photographers. He's fascinated by how photographers create, considering the fact that he's legally blind./ HIGHLIGHTS: Chris used to work in Men's lifestyle and tech. He's a veteran technology writer, editor, and reviewer with more than 15 years experience. He's also a Photographer that has had his share of bylines and viral projects like "Secret Order of the Slice." PAST BYLINES: Gear Patrol, PC Mag, Geek.com, Digital Photo Pro, Resource Magazine, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, IGN, PDN, and others. EXPERIENCE: Chris Gampat began working in tech and art journalism both in 2008. He started at PCMag, Magnum Photos, and Geek.com. He founded the Phoblographer in 2009 after working at places like PDN and Photography Bay. He left his day job as the Social Media Content Developer at B&H Photo in the early 2010s. Since then, he's evolved as a publisher using AI ethically, coming up with ethical ways to bring in affiliate income, and preaching the word of diversity in the photo industry. His background and work has spread to non-profits like American Photographic Arts where he's done work to get photographers various benefits. His skills are in SEO, app development, content planning, ethics management, photography, Wordpress, and other things. EDUCATION: Chris graduated Magna Cum Laude from Adelphi University with a degree in Communications in Journalism in 2009. Since then, he's learned and adapted to various things in the fields of social media, SEO, app development, e-commerce development, HTML, etc. FAVORITE SUBJECT TO PHOTOGRAPH: Chris enjoys creating conceptual work that makes people stare at his photos. But he doesn't get to do much of this because of the high demand of photography content. / BEST PHOTOGRAPHY TIP: Don't do it in post-production when you can do it in-camera.