I have been using my EM-5 for a while with the 20 Panny lens and have not experienced any problems with it. It may be some glitch on your side, but if you can spare the time, it better get checked out rather than wait it out until it gets worse..

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Good day!

Regarding E-M5, luckily, I cannot remember the last time my camera locks up.
I haven't experienced it for quite sometime.

I'm not sure but I think the latest firmware fixed it.

Mine is set to sleep in 5 mins.

Auto power off is 30 mins.

I have the camera for about one month (a black one which came with firmware version 1.0) and I never had any of those problems described. I used it a lot always with the vertical grip attached and I also made use extensively of the sleep mode, not a single lock-up so far. Sounds like Olympus has serious quality control issues.

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Well no one judge you as casual user or a newbie, but seeing you are new member in this forum and the fact that many new owner of OM-D (who happen also new to Olympus system) coming to this forum and keep asking repeated question and share same things that may already have obvious answer might make other member reluctant to respond.

This forum is not an official Olympus or Panasonic forum. We all here share the same joy and tears of using m4/3 system. And we try to help each other by sharing the knowledge and get enrich by other knowledge throughout the forum.

Many member in this forum coming from and still use the 4/3 system (which you also use) and other brand and system as well. And during our experience with any camera system there must be the occasion that we get bad luck. I personally appreciate your willingness to share your bad experience with OM-D, but the fate that you have the 'bad quality' OM-D not always parallel with others (including me) who happen quite lucky to have normal OM-D.

If you find the tips and knowledge on this forum doesn't meet your demand. Perhaps it's a time for you to forward the complaint to Olympus. I'm sure if your's is truly have defect they will respect it either by fix it or replace with the new and normal OM-D.

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My Gear : EM-5, E-1, EPL-1, + Lumix 20, 14; Fujinon 55; OM 35, 135; mZD 45, 12-50, 14-42, 40-150R; ZD 35, 14-54 mkI, 40-150 mkI

I'm waiting to hear back from Oly level two tech support. He is trying to locate another new silver body e-m5 with the 12-50mm lens so that we can swap out my defective one. That way I won't be down more than a day. I'm very glad to hear that others are not experiencing the same thing that I am because I soooooo love my e-m5 (in spite of its attitude right now). I still believe that this is the perfect camera.

The whole reason I decided to join this forum was to hopefully get answers to this lock up problem so I wouldn't have to part with mine (wishful thinking) and also learn more about the camera in general. It has a lot more functionality than my
e-410.

The things that I can do with this camera in low light would never have worked (at least not so well) with my e-410. See the attached photo I captured yesterday in a very hard rain. I was able to get this amazing image under the protection of a tent with my 40-150mm lens set to 150mm at ISO 640.

Luckily, I can and do still use my beloved e-m5. It locks up, but I have been able to always revive it thus far. I hope to get more time soon to post more of the iimages that I've captured... captured a lot of food images yesterday during a gourmet charity event.

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I have experienced this lockup once with the 12-50 and a couple of times with the 20mm. I am hoping that a fix for this would be released soon.

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I've been in New York the last week with a new E-M5. I've been using mostly the panny 20mm on it and it's locked up many times. I also have the Oly 9-18mm, my 2nd most used lens and that has never locked up. To me it seems the 20mm locks up the camera most often right after the camera goes to sleep. I had mine set to a very aggressive sleep timer to conserve battery power because I have only one battery. To unlock the camera, I have to remove the battery for a few seconds and then re-insert it.

Just had this problem with a 12-60 attached. Lens worked, took pictures, moved to a new area a few feet away, and the camera would not respond. Switching off and back on resolved the problem. It turns out the battery was *close* to low, as about 2 hours later, and 5-10 pictures later, the battery was fully discharged.

So in my case, it's *possible* battery drain was the cause.

Happy to say after 3 weeks of using every feature available and every setting I've had NO lockups. I use ONLY the Olympus brand lenses. The kit 12-50, M. Zuiko 75-300 and 45mm f1.8. So far so good. I haven't used it enough in one sitting to drain the battery and that's an afternoon of shooting pics and movie clips. So far I think I got one built mid week LOL not on a Monday or Friday apparently.

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