Olympus E-P5 Review - Adapted, Legacy & Manual Lenses

Olympus PEN E-P5 review, this time manual lenses, focus peaking & using a lens mount adapter for c-mount lenses and other adapted, legacy & manual lenses and why the EP5 is so good at it...
In this series, an Extensive EP5 review, Blunty style. A multi-part review video series, breaking the Olympus E-P5 down in hardware, stills, video, using the new Focus peaking feature with manual lenses, and a head to head shoot-out shot for shot with the Olympus E-P3.
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[@PhinioxGlade]

I am really enjoying this long form review. I realize you (and us viewers) have lucked out with the early access but I would love to see this format extended to future reviews.

[@BluntyTV]

Mount adapters, yes. Not difficult to find... got my last few off Amazon even.

[@BluntyTV]

I've done it before... Like with the Playstation Vita, and WiiU most recently. Doing something like this is a lot of work though, so I'll usually only bother producing a long form super detailed series like this when I've got rare early access (as in this case) or some another compelling or useful reason to throw so much time and effort at a single product, etc.

[@jes380]

Hi.... with all available options of lenses to adapt..... i was wondering if you can share what you have tested or even do a show and tell video with them. I've been looking around and it is generally uncertain how these lenses will work in terms of vignetting and such. Im particulary interested in a really wide fast lens, something suitable for portraits and also some zoom c-mount lenses I've seen on Ebay... many of which have already found out that they do not cover the micro 4/3 sensor... which reminds me... have you tested adapting to the Pentax Q Series???...thanks a lot for sharing all the info...regards.

[@LindyLooo99]

The Olympus 12mm F2 is the most incredible lens EVER.... I've sold pictures from this lens to corporations..

[@BluntyTV]

I don't think the difference is quite as dramatic as you make out with your choice of phrasing... but it's likely because I've colour graded/corrected many of these clips, as THIS video was about how well the camera works with the adapted lenses, NOT the pre video performance as the other vid was, so I had no need to keep the out-of camera video files "pure" and untouched for the purposes of the review.

[@Marowin]

Holy sweet baby Celestia, thick camera is awesome.

[@BluntyTV]

Yes. Look for it soon-ish on the DigiDirect TV TH-cam channel, I'll be doing it there. (Link is on my channel)

[@PeopleVoicesForObama]

Hi Blunty. Can you do a comparison between this one and the newly soon to be released Fuji X-M1? Other than the fact that the Fuji is $200 cheaper I don't see that the Fuji has any feature that is better than the pen5, maybe possibly the picture quality? The similar lens line up is cheaper than Fuji lens. Every other aspect the Pen 5 comes ahead: in body image stabilization, touch screen focus/shot, time lap. Maybe I just wait until the OMD-EM6 to come out when it will have GPS and Wifi.

[@a176]

Its more like the other video, there lacks significant detail as compared to here. For example when you do the run around of that old engine, it has visibly much higher detail and clarity. Were there differences in shot resolution/bitrate? Or maybe just a youtube issue?

[@175myles]

Hey Blunty, do you think you will be doing a review on the Sigma M4/3 lenses by any chance? They are so damn cheap and look really good for the price!

[@DominikHaake]

Nice. How is a micro 4/3 mount able to adapt all sorts of lenses? Does one need to get adapters or anything? Thanks

[@PhinioxGlade]

Legacy lenses are so much fun, I have like 30 of them, mainly ~50mm M42.

[@LindyLooo99]

the BEST mount to get is M42... so don't go getting 100 different adapters.. M42 is the sweetest.... The most awesome lens I've found is the Mamiya Sekor 55mm F1.8.. sharp as a tack.. nice bokeh...
cheap cheap cheap

[@dominicarnold5256]

Loving the Fawlty Towers reference... ;D

[@MrLouisBrooks]

Hey Blunty, any idea what happens if you use both sensor image stabilisation AND optical image stabilisation? Does it over-stabilise and end up yucky or do you get a doubly stable image?

[@BluntyTV]

Clever.

[@Avario468]

liking that cockatoo island action haha

[@kb5ql]

Oh if only they would give us this as a firmware update to the OM-D E-M5. I guess we'll have to shell out the cash for the next OM-D.

[@XxTangoDownxX1]

good review :D

[@RadicalHam]

OMG I JUST WENT AND WATCHED THE FAWLTY TOWERS EPISODES BEFORE I SAW THIS... imma psychic. QUE?!

[@a176]

Why do the videos in your "Olympus PEN E-P5 Review - VIDEO Performance tests" look so much worse than the videos here?

[@KiddsockTV]

sweet

[@paultaylor5513]

You mean PENultimate. I'll get my coat.

[@CaptainBeardedLlama]

Second to last pen video :(

[@Marowin]

This*