Price: £1,199/$1,199
The OM System OM-5 may be the first ‘Olympus camera’ not to bear the iconic brand name, but the familiar logo is the only thing that’s missing here – this is a camera that lives up to the Olympus legacy and expands on it in several worthwhile ways.
If you hadn’t yet joined the dots, the OM System OM-5 is the successor to the Olympus OM-D E-M5 Mark III and thankfully does away with the alphabet soup nomenclature. This means it is the manufacturer’s ‘middle camera’, sitting between the flagship OM System OM-1 and the entry-level Olympus OM-D E-M10 Mark IV, which will be renamed as the OM-10 when the next model is due out.
Where the OM-1 is the