Review
Mirrorless / CAMERA REFERENCE
OM-D E-M1X
Olympus
Catalogue announcement:
01 / TECHNICAL RECORD
Specifications
Catalogue specifications. Source: DPReview historical specification record ↗.
Sensor and files
- Effective pixels
- 20 megapixels
- Sensor size
- Four Thirds (17.4 x 13 mm)
- Sensor type
- CMOS
- Max resolution
- 5184 x 3888
- ISO
- Auto, 200-25600 (expands down to 64)
- Boosted ISO (minimum)
- 64
- Uncompressed format
- RAW
Lens and focus
- Lens mount
- Micro Four Thirds
- Number of focus points
- 121
- Manual focus
- Yes
- Image stabilization
- Sensor-shift
- Image stabilization notes
- 7 stops body only. 7.5 stops with 12-100mm lens.
Exposure and shooting
- Minimum shutter speed
- 60 sec
- Maximum shutter speed
- 1/8000 sec
- Maximum shutter speed (electronic)
- 1/32000 sec
- Continuous drive
- 60.0 fps
- Exposure compensation
- ±5 (at 1/3 EV, 1/2 EV, 1 EV steps)
- Metering modes
- MultiCenter-weightedHighlight-weightedSpotSpot AF-area
- Aperture priority
- Yes
- Shutter priority
- Yes
- Built-in flash
- No
- External flash
- Yes (via hot shoe or flash sync port)
- Timelapse recording
- Yes
Video and audio
- Format
- MPEG-4, H.264
- Microphone
- Stereo
- Microphone port
- Yes
- Headphone port
- Yes
- Speaker
- Mono
Viewfinder and screen
- Viewfinder type
- Electronic
- Viewfinder coverage
- 100%
- Viewfinder magnification
- 1.65× (0.82× 35mm equiv.)
- Screen size
- 3″
- Screen dots
- 1,037,000
- Articulated LCD
- Fully articulated
- Touch screen
- Yes
Body and connections
- Storage types
- Dual SD/SDHC/SDXC cards (UHS-II supported)
- Battery description
- Two BLH-1 lithium-ion batteries
- Battery Life (CIPA)
- 870
- Weight (inc. batteries)
- 997 g (2.20 lb / 35.17 oz)
- Dimensions
- 144 x 147 x 75 mm (5.67 x 5.79 x 2.95″)
- Environmentally sealed
- Yes (to IPX1 standards)
- USB
- USB 3.2 Gen 1 (5 GBit/sec)
- HDMI
- Yes (micro-HDMI)
- Wireless
- Built-In
- Remote control
- Yes (via smartphone or wired remote)
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