And now for some portraits. The pop-up flash of the Olympus OM-D E-M10 Mark IV did not really cause a red-eye effect, so the only noticeable difference between the Forced On and Forced On with Red-Eye Reduction settings is that the second causes the subject's pupils to contract slightly. The good news is that these menus are mainly there to allow you to set up the camera exactly the way you want it to be set up – once you're done with that, you'll seldom need to delve into the menus again, courtesy of the large number of external controls as well as the excellent Super Control Panel, which is basically an interactive status display inherited from older Olympus cameras.

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My Nikon V1 is ancient but it came with a mechanical as well as an electronic shutter. So, I was always able to shoot in silent mode if I wanted to. The rear screen can now be tilted down by 180-degrees to face forwards when holding the camera in selfie mode, which makes it a lot more suitable for vlogging. Our signal to noise test measures image clarity, specifically the ratio of the actual image 'data' you want to capture, versus the image noise that you don't want, but will inevitably be visible when shooting at higher ISO sensitivities.The higher the score at a given ISO sensitivity, the better.

And the fonctional difference was in the firmware only (along with a small cosmetic difference). One can upgrade a Stylus 1 with the Stylus 1s firmware (I did it). Autofocus systems need to be predictable, even if they're not the fastest. The E-M10 Mark IV’s autofocusing system may not be the most advanced in this camera class, but it functions consistently and that’s the main thing we want from a camera’s autofocus.

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Just like its predecessor, the Olympus OM-D E-M10 Mark IV is incredibly lightweight and compact. However, Olympus has managed to shave 27g off the Mark IV, making it even more portable. The trade-off with a light camera tends to come down to the body material used to construct it. The Mark IV is made out of plastic, compared to the metal body of more expensive cameras, such as the Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark III. The E-M10 IV's 2.36m-dot OLED viewfinder, unchanged from the previous model, provides a clear view of the scene ahead with settings overlaid on top. This means that once you’re familiar with the layout, you won’t need to take your eye away from the viewfinder to make adjustments. Low light sensitivity stretches from ISO 200 all the way up to a pro-like ISO 25600, partly down to the implementation of the 20.3 megapixel sensor and latest noise reducing TruePic VIII processor, with an extended LOW setting equivalent to ISO 100 also available.The Micro Four Thirds mount gives the OMD EM10 Mark III access to the broadest and most established native lens catalogue of all the mirrorless camera systems. Micro Four Thirds has over 75 lenses available from Panasonic and Olympus along with third parties including Sigma, Tamron, Samyang, Voigtlander and others. So while many rival mirror-less formats are only now beginning to cover most bases with a single lens, Micro Four Thirds typically has two or more options available. Whether it’s Fisheye, ultra wide, fast aperture, macro, super-zoom or good old general-purpose, the Micro Four Thirds catalogue has it covered, and many of them are great quality too – find out more in my best Micro Four Thirds lenses guide. Actually DPR, there are some other changes apart from the ones you mention, both inside and out (in the UK, the E-M10 Mark IIIs launched in August, albeit exclusively to a well-known national retailer - as it did in the Far East and possibly other markets in Europe too). It shares its top plate with the E-M10 Mark IV (it may not look like it but the Mark IV's different look is due to an alteration of its main body, not the top housing). Obviously this is purely cosmetic, though the front control dial thus gets improved grip. You can set the focus to single or continuous, the latter supporting focus-pulling using the touch-screen. Focus peaking is also supported while filming which makes manual focusing much easier.

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Even if you’re shooting subjects that aren’t keeping still though, the stabilisation remains very useful for keeping the image steady as you compose. Even with mid-length telephoto lenses, the image floats eerily on the screen or in the viewfinder, allowing you to very accurately compose without any visible wobbling. Olympus have made just enough improvements to the OM-D E-M10 Mark IV to enable it to remain competitive in 2020. There aren't nearly enough new or improved features to justify upgrading from the previous model, but for would-be owners the Mark IV version still has a lot to offer.It's just a shame that there are no headphone of MIC ports to go with the more versatile screen and the clever selfie shooting mode. In High Dynamic Range (HDR) mode, the camera takes a number of photos in rapid succession, at different exposure settings, and combines them into a single high-dynamic-range image. There are two options, HDR1 and HDR2. In our experience, HDR1 usually yields a credible image but HDR2 tends to produce flat, unrealistic results. The BLS-50 rechargeable lithium-ion battery supplied with the E-M10 Mark IV is good for around 330 shots.