The OM-1 has been a big success for OM Digital Solutions, silencing the naysayers and giving OM System the boost it needed to make its way as a new brand. Along with the last few new M.Zuiko Digital lens releases, it’s also helped OM System become the driving force in the M43 sensor space… which, of course, it needs to be given it’s exclusively backing the format.
The OM-1 Mark II isupgrade, albeit a significant one, and the first model will remain available. The Mark II camera retains the same weather-sealed bodyshell (to the IP53 standard and with freeze-proofing), 20 megapixels stacked BSI-type sensor and ‘TruePic X’ generation processor (albeit with some performance tweaks for the new camera), but there are improvements to the AF system, a bigger buffer memory, a more effective IBIS and a few handy new ‘computational photography’ features. Externally, the only real change is the adoption of ‘OM System’ badging rather than ‘Olympus’ which OMDS was allowed to use on the first model to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the original 35mm OM-1.
