fooddude

Dear Someone 1.00, I would like to speak on behalf of the numerous Olympus OM-D E-M5 owners (like myself), whom primarily use this camera for videography. To cut to the chase, and in short, can you or are you planning on hacking the Olympus OM-D to release it's full potential in video-mode? I would like to request this, since the other famous hacker, Vitaly Kiselev, has already told all of us in the past and has admitted he will never work on a hack nor plan to hack for the OM-D ever, and is primarily focused on the Panasonic cameras. Even though the OM-D is mostly viewed as a "stills-camera" to most, many of us believe it is one of the best video cameras out there currently, if not The best video camera, due to it's ease in run-and-gun, street and casual shooting, because of it's one-of-a-kind IBIS feature. Which, makes handheld shooting without any extra camera-support (such as large and expensive shoulder rigs, fluid heads, tripods, steady-rigs) very much possible and easy in everyday situations. IBIS is THE #1 reason which makes the OM-D a fantastic video camera; and, better than any other camera for us casual/street/run&gun shooters. I even prefer it to, and have actually sold, my previously owned Canon 5D2, Canon 60D and Sony Nex 5N; which are all touted as being some of the best HDSLR's out there; just for this reason alone (IBIS). Stable-video, even with lower bitrates/quaity (ie: OM-D), is much more enjoyable to watch, than shaky video, with higher quality bitrates (ie: 5D2, 60D, 5N). However, the biggest drawbacks of the OM-D for video shooting is it's very low bitrates of 19-20mbps, lack of 24p, inability for IBIS to work in Video-mode with adapted and non-native lenses and the low quality compression codecs, just to name the few, major, issues. If these aforesaid issues were fixed, the OM-D would be one of the most desirable video-cameras out there. Additionally, the OM-D's sensor has been compared to many other cameras and has been proven to be the best m43 sensor to date - in it's clean low-light handling, clean high ISO ability, a very wide/large Dynamic Range which is almost up to par with Full Frame sensors and even beats almost all APS-C sensors, etc. The OM-D's sensor has a very large potential to capture some high quality video images, with a proper OM-D video hack. If you have any opinions or plans on hacking the OM-D, please do let us know. Thank you for reading my request. Regards, fooddude