Originally Posted by VisualFeast

My issues have all been with video. First issue was a large blackish spidery-looking area that appeared at the top-middle of the frame while recording. Olympus replaced the IBIS.

Now I have a new problem-- experiencing random single frames that are either brighter or darker by a few stops. No rhyme to it, sometime its minutes between bad frames, other times just seconds. I'm using it on another shoot next week, then it's going back to Olympus.

Originally Posted by David A

Mine is updated to V. 1.2, done the day it was released, and is working fine with no problems. There don't seem to be a flood of negative reports here, either from people with firmware version 1.1 or 1.2 and I think there are enough of us here with OM-Ds for there to have been a number of reports if we were striking problems.

Originally Posted by David A

I was in CameraPro in Brisbane today and they had the OM-D in stock and on display. I was talking to one of the sales staff who said that they were still selling very well and that they were still having to take orders if you wanted it with the 12-50 kit zoom because Olympus couldn't supply enough. No mention of a recall.

Mine is updated to V. 1.2, done the day it was released, and is working fine with no problems. There don't seem to be a flood of negative reports here, either from people with firmware version 1.1 or 1.2 and I think there are enough of us here with OM-Ds for there to have been a number of reports if we were striking problems.

Note for those outside Australia: Bhupinder called Harvey Norman a "camera store". It's a chain of Australian furniture, electrical, and electronics stores, not a camera store or at least not a camera store in my view though they do sell cameras. I think some at least of their outlets are franchises. I bought my E-P3 from one of their stores. While they sell the cameras with kit lenses, they don't sell lenses or other accessories, or at least not at any Harvey Norman store I've been in. You certainly can't buy a lot of the things you expect to see in a camera store from them. I haven't found their staff to be overly well informed about anything I've bought from them in the way of household white goods, cameras, or home theatre gear though they often offer reasonably good prices. Many Aussies *affectionately* refer to them as "Hardly Normal", not "Harvey Norman".

I would expect that if Olympus were going to do a recall, they would hardly leak the news to someone in Harvey Norman before advising other resellers and obviously the store I bought mine from has heard nothing given my experience this morning. If there is going to be a recall, I would expect all resellers to receive advice at the same time and I would not expect the news to break first in Australia, especially in a Harvey Norman store.

Originally Posted by Bhupinder2002

Thank you David for reminding me this all. I think I know very well what Harvey Norman sells. This particular store in Melbourne near Chadstone stocks mores cameras than Teds. I didn't say I believe him. I shared the info which I got from a random source but it's a serious source . I am going ahead and buying it anyway
Cheers

Originally Posted by hkpzee

No need to take offense, Bhupinder! David is merely telling us folks who live outside of Australia what Harvey Norman is, which I, for one, have never heard of before this!

Originally Posted by Luckypenguin

Oh dear, my E-M5 is still running v1.0!

Originally Posted by David A

Thank you, precisely what I meant.

And Bhupinder, I didn't mean any offence. I don't know what your Harvey Norman store is like in Melbourne and given that Melbourne is considerably larger than Brisbane it may be more serious about cameras and camera gear than they are in Brisbane. Up here they'll sell you a camera with a lens attached but you better go somewhere else if you want to find anything else to do with the camera.

I still think that if there is going to be a recall, it's unlikely that we will hear about it first in Australia, and from a leak, rather than from someone in Japan or one of Olympus's larger markets.

Originally Posted by VisualFeast

Now I have a new problem-- experiencing random single frames that are either brighter or darker by a few stops. No rhyme to it, sometime its minutes between bad frames, other times just seconds. I'm using it on another shoot next week, then it's going back to Olympus.