Olympus OM-D E-M10 Cameras (2015) vs Olympus OM-D E-M5 Cameras (2015)

Macworld, a review site with a history of doing objective hands-on testing, has great things to say about the Olympus OM-D E-M10 Mark II (2015). In fact, it's "Ranked 3 out of 9" in its "Best camera 2016: Best DSLR and best CSC cameras UK" roundup, which points toward it being a good Mirrorless Camera.

Moving on to the Olympus OM-D E-M5 Mark II (2015): it was unable to reach the very top of any roundups from sources that conduct reliable and unbiased testing. Nonetheless, it still managed to impress reviewers from a number of such sites, like ePHOTOzine, Photography Blog, The Phoblographer, shotkit.com, Digital Camera World, TrustedReviews, Techradar, Digital Photography Review, Tom's Guide, PCmag, and DXOMARK, enough for them to include them on those lists.

We examined all of the review data that we could find and first took a look at sources that reviewed both of them, like Photography Blog, ePHOTOzine, The Phoblographer, Digital Camera World, Techradar, Tom's Guide, PCmag, and DXOMARK, and found that they haven't shown a preference for either product.

Then we checked which sources liked these two Mirrorless Cameras best and found that the Olympus OM-D E-M10 Mark II (2015) got its highest, 10, review score from reviewers at Photography Blog, whereas the Olympus OM-D E-M5 Mark II (2015) earned its best score of 10 from ePHOTOzine.

Lastly, we averaged out all of the reviews scores that we could find on these two products and compared them to other Mirrorless Cameras on the market. We learned that both of them performed far better than most of their competitors - the overall review average earned by Mirrorless Cameras being 7.9 out of 10, whereas the Olympus OM-D E-M10 Mark II (2015) and Olympus OM-D E-M5 Mark II (2015) managed averages of 8.8 and 8.9 points, respectively.

Due to the difference in their prices, however, it's important to keep in mind that a direct Olympus OM-D E-M10 Mark II (2015) vs. Olympus OM-D E-M5 Mark II (2015) comparison might not be entirely fair - some sources don't take value for money into account when assigning their scores and therefore have a tendency to rate more premium products better.