Reviewers Liked
- Lightweight
- Relatively small
- Very fast accurate auto-focus
- Reasonably good low light capability
- Appealing body design
- Smaller camera is easy to hold and quite small
- Battery grip makes the E-M5 feel like a tiny professional camera
- EVF works well
- Tilting OLED touch panel display
- Water resistant body
- Advanced in-body image stabilization
- Tough weather-sealed build quality
- Outstanding High ISO noise performance
- Great quality viewfinder and tilting OLED touch-screen
- 5-axis image stabilization which works with any lens, 2, 3, 5 and 7-frame auto bracketing
Reviewers Didn't Like
- Menu system is not easy to use
- Expensive
- Odd power switch location
- Exposure compensation dial changes easily, can't be turned off
- Small buttons
- EVF proximity sensor sometimes activates unexpectedly
- Moderately high chromatic aberration from 12-50mm kit lens
- Screen only tilts and there's no touch functions in movie modes
- Distracting whirring noise from stabilization motor
- No built-in mic socket
- Flash unit clips-on rather then being built-in
- External flash
- Base ISO of 100 would be welcome