WHAT IS IT? The Olympus OM-D E-M5 Mark III reincarnated in the new OM System era. Had things been different, this would have been the Mark IV variant of the E-M5 and, as it is, much is still carried over from this model, but with quite a number of additional features inherited from the flagship OM-1. This makes for a very capable mid-level mirrorless camera and, being a Micro Four Thirds format model, it's exceptionally compact in the spirit of what the original Olympus was all about. The OM-5 model number carries on from where the 35mm OM-4 left off way back in 2002 when production ended with the OM-4Ti.
The big deal with the OM-5 compared to the E-M5 III is its latergeneration quad-core TruePic IX processor -as is used in the OM-D E-M1 III-which delivers a bunch of
