A few more photos. The first from Aperture and the second from RAW Developer. 

High ISO Olympus OM-D Samples

Here is a simple image set from ISO 1600 to ISO 25600 on the Olympus E-M5 OM-D. The exposure wasn't consistent - and was handheld from the car - whilst waiting for drive through take away. In my opinion ISO 6400 is useable, and ISO 1600 and 3200 is pretty good.

ISO 1600

ISO 3200

ISO 6400

ISO 12800

ISO 25600

Leica X2 with Canon 250D

Here are some shots with the Leica X2 and the Canon 250D diopter - DNG straight into Aperture - no changes. Very rough. But gives you an idea of sharpness and distortion. Not too bad at all! They were all at f/2.8 and hand held. Not sure about the shutter speeds - you can check the EXIF data. 

Pier

A day at the beach/pier with my Leica X2 - Mui Wo in Lantau Island, Hong Kong - to be exact. Terribly bad day. Very bright, hazy, smoggy, feel like you are in a tanning booth... A few comments. CA is fairly well controlled - red and purple fringes can be seen from about 50% upwards. There was a lot of CA along the horizontal members of the gantry, the vertical posts had very little (not sure which is the exact optical phenomena that is, but there is a name for it...).

Loading Platform.
(Leica X2 1/500 f/5.6 ISO 100)

Sharpness again is generally quite even across the frame. But I do not that DOF, even with a 24mm lens set at f/5.6 is not everywhere. In my eyes, the  field that appears to be sharp and in focus extends from the bottom of the rusted steel platform; all the way to the end of the timber platform. If you look carefully at the light blue rendered wall on the right hand side. The wall surface appears to be rendered with very good detail and sharpness. But if you move down towards the concrete pier itself, a lot of that becomes softer - which it should, cause it is on a similar focal plane.

A few notes about the colour and exposure. It was difficult lighting conditions, but still, the Leica X2 files were very easy to work with. In this particular photo, it had an exposure of -0.65, had RGB, Blue and Lab Luminance curves applied; along with some contrast, saturation, tint mid tones and tint highlights applied in RAW Developer.

Some test of RAW Processors

Some test black and white shots from the Leica X2. Please note this is in-progress testing.

Test 01 - RAW Developer: Everything off

Test 02 - RAW Developer: Everything off Enable Soft Look On

Test 03 - RAW Developer: Enable Soft Look On an RL Sharpening

Test 04 - Aperture: Fully edited - Obviously different exposure to the above.

Lightroom - Fully Edited

RAW Developer - Fully Edited

More test snippets from the X2

Please find some more snippets from some test shots with the Leica X2. 100% crops. All process within RAW Developer. No colour correction, purely noise and sharpening applied. 

Leica X2 1/125 f/2.8 ISO 1250

Leica X2 1/2000 f/5.6 ISO 400

Leica X2 1/125 f/2.8 ISO 800 (Focused section)

Leica X2 1/125 f/2.8 ISO 800 (unfocused part from above photo)

E-M5 and 45mm Macro

Up close and personal. Find some test shots I did this morning using the OM-D and the Panasonic Leica DG 45mm f/2.8 Macro lens. Handheld and natural light. Using the built in body IS, with the lens IS turned off. All I can say is wow, the image quality is superb. I did notice that when getting near to 1:1, the front of the lens and the lens hood gets quite close to the object which is really an issue. But then again, the working distance offered by a 45mm lens at 1:1 is not great. The image has beautiful transition from sharp to blur and renders the overall image so well. On a side note, even with such low shutter speeds and high magnification, the IS seems to be doing its job really well. Enjoy.

Olympus OM-D E-M5 with Panasonic Leica 45mm f/2.8 Marco (ISO 200 f/4 1/100)

Olympus OM-D E-M5 with Panasonic Leica 45mm f/2.8 Marco (ISO 200 f/8 1/100)

Sample Shots with OM-D E-M5

Here are some of my first shots with the Olympus OM-D E-M5 using the 12mm f/2.0 and the Panasonic Leica 45mm macro. They were shot as RAW and processed in Aperture. Post processing has been applied - I am not interested in what I get directly out of the camera, but what I can get out of the files.

Olympus OM-D E-M5 with Olympus 12mm f/2.0 (f/4.5 ISO 200 1/500)
Taken from the apartment balcony. Possibly a little over sharpened. But again, look at the detail in the windows and the metal balustrades. 

Olympus OM-D E-M5 with Leica 45mm f/2.8 (f/2.8 ISO 250 1/100)
Look at the focus point - it sits between the 5.6 and 11 aperture indicator on the right. You can see the small surface of the 12mm lens. Super sharp. Also move the creamy background.