The shutter release is encircled by the first of two command dials. This one by default allows you to change the shutter speed or exposure compensation when using one of the more creative shooting modes, while the second that's positioned under your right thumb principally adjusts the aperture. It's a neat system that make using the manual mode in particular a lot simpler than on most rival cameras. The camera’s battery is rated to around 360 shots and under 30 minutes of video. This is typical for cameras in this class and at this price point. In use, we found it got us through a day of walking around, with it powering down into battery saver mode. There are 9 ISO settings available on the Olympus OM-D E-M10 Mark IV. The base sensitivity is ISO 200, but there is an expanded low sensitivity setting equivalent to ISO 100. These crops demonstrate the image quality at each setting. JPEG

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Switch the power on and the lens extends by a couple of centimetres with the camera ready for action in less than two seconds; it’s actually not much different to the cold power-up time with a prime or non-collapsing zoom. The zoom operation on the lens is motorised only, using a spring-loaded ring on the barrel – it’s not as tactile as a mechanically-linked ring, but that’s the price of miniaturisation. Meanwhile a thin ring at the end offers manual focusing and while it’s narrow, the damping makes it a lot more usable than the loose ring on the Sony 16-50mm kit zoom.The E-M10 Mark IV is powered by a TruePic VIII imaging processor, which works to deliver reduced noise in images captured in low light and has a native ISO sensitivity range of ISO 200-6400. This can be expanded to ISO 80 (LO) and ISO 25,600 (HI), but you’d be wiser to take advantage of the camera’s quality five-axis in-body image stabilization system (IBIS) before you crank the ISO up to those numbers. 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.

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The pictures below were taken of a white wall from a distance of 1.5m, with and without the built-in flash. The E-M10 Mark IV features capacitive touchscreen operation, although if you're not a fan you can for the most part get away without using it much at all, as there are a plethora of physical buttons which are either dedicated to specific functions or can be customized to suit. Indeed, the touch-sensitive interface hasn't led to a cleaner or more pared-down minimalist look.

The 5-axis image stabilization was even more impressive when we tried out the Olympus OM-D E-M10 Mark IV’s video functionality, providing smooth footage when walking with the camera handheld. The E-M10 Mark IV is the first camera in the OMD series to feature a flip-down LCD monitor, which makes capturing self-facing vlogging footage super simple. This screen is also particularly helpful when photographing high- or low-angle photos. Despite being the most affordable camera in the Olympus OM-D range, straight out-of-the box the E-M10 Mark IV feels impressively robust and reassuringly solid thanks to its magnesium-alloy body. 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.

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OM-D E-M10 Mark IIIs. Catchy and memorable little name. Pretty soon microchanges like this will have subscripts or superscripts, or similar silliness. The EM10 Mark III also inherits the Keystone Compensation option of recent models which provides real-time correction of converging lines as you compose, although on the Mark III you’ll now find it on the AP menu. There’s nothing stopping you from performing similar skewing after the event, but Olympus likes to offer the chance to do it in the field and I appreciate the chance. Inevitably there’s some cropping of the image and juggling of pixels, but it’s nice to be able to make these corrections in-camera as you compose. Here’s a handheld before and after shot to show you the kind of thing that’s possible with a wide lens pointing upwards taken from exactly the same position, and with the same lens and focal length. While the E-M10 II is generally very responsive, I had an occasional problem – as with the E-M5 Mark II – where pressing the info button didn’t actually toggle through all the options, skipping the histogram and level views. Jip hasn't made any decision yet. This is a slight upgrade by Olympus, and it is sold with the same MSRP with Mark III so I see nothing wrong there. Good for new buyers actually.There's a also a new, very thin rubberised vertical strip that runs alongside the LCD screen. This helps you slightly when holding the camera in selfie mode with the LCD screen flipped down. Unfortunately the E-M10 Mark IV still doesn't combine the shots either in-camera or in the supplied Olympus software, so you'll need to use Photoshop or a specialized software program like Helicon Focus to combine all of the shots into one image. In a few years we will look at this camera and be asking ourselves questions like: "why?" and "hun?" 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).