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So my EM1 III arrived today and I've been testing it. Very pleased so far.
However, 2 odd things happened and I'm not sure what to think.
1) I was shooting HHHR, and when I went to image review, the EVF display went kinda crazy. Hard to explain, but there was a wavy pattern and part of the display was extended offscreen to the right, as if the monitor had become desynced. Note I was using normal refresh rate, not high. When I half pressed shutter and returned to camera view, it was still like that. I turned the camera off then on and it was normal again, and so far it has not happened again.
2) At one point I turned the camera on and rasied to me eye and the EVF was just black.
UPDATE: OK, happened again. Had the camera to my eye and turned it on, and just black screen in EVF. Tried again and it worked normally. This is not good reliability.
Should I be concerned? I never had such things happen on my EM5 II.
UPDATE: I just reset my settings to default and removed the battery and reinserted. Fingers crossed this clears things up. (FWIW Menu button location is annoying but eh...)
UPDATE 2: I now reasonably convinced this camera is defective. I was just pointing at stuff in my house to test the AF and after several times the EVF display went wacky again as described above. Looks like I will need to return it for another. UGH.
FINAL UPDATE: Just called Olympus tech support (thanks Jessica) and they confirmed it's not normal and told me to return it. UGH. :-( I will say they have good and responsive phone tech support, first time I ever called.
However, 2 odd things happened and I'm not sure what to think.
1) I was shooting HHHR, and when I went to image review, the EVF display went kinda crazy. Hard to explain, but there was a wavy pattern and part of the display was extended offscreen to the right, as if the monitor had become desynced. Note I was using normal refresh rate, not high. When I half pressed shutter and returned to camera view, it was still like that. I turned the camera off then on and it was normal again, and so far it has not happened again.
2) At one point I turned the camera on and rasied to me eye and the EVF was just black.
UPDATE: OK, happened again. Had the camera to my eye and turned it on, and just black screen in EVF. Tried again and it worked normally. This is not good reliability.
Should I be concerned? I never had such things happen on my EM5 II.
UPDATE: I just reset my settings to default and removed the battery and reinserted. Fingers crossed this clears things up. (FWIW Menu button location is annoying but eh...)
UPDATE 2: I now reasonably convinced this camera is defective. I was just pointing at stuff in my house to test the AF and after several times the EVF display went wacky again as described above. Looks like I will need to return it for another. UGH.
FINAL UPDATE: Just called Olympus tech support (thanks Jessica) and they confirmed it's not normal and told me to return it. UGH. :-( I will say they have good and responsive phone tech support, first time I ever called.
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