With its clearly photographic heritage, the OM-3 doesn’t look like an obvious choice as a video camera, but as with its photographic capabilities, it inherits the most of the video feature set from the OM-1 Mark II as well. Again, the practical limitations versus the latter aren’t significant and topped by the single card slot which obviously prohibits proxy recording or back-ups.
Both 4K DCI and 4K UHD can be recorded internally at 50 or 60 fps, and Full HD shooting is available up to 200/240 fps for slow-motion clips (in the ‘S&Q’ mode). There’s the option of 10-bit 4:2:0 colour with the H.265 HEVC compression codec which delivers bit rates of up to 152 Mbps. With the standard MPEG-4 AVC H.264 codec and 8-bit 4:2:0 colour, the bit rates…
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