OM System E-M1 Mark III ASTRO Camera Officially Announced

OMDS (OM SYSTEM) has officially announced the OLYMPUS E-M1 Mark III ASTRO, a version of the E-M1 Mark III designed for astronomy photography.

“The OM SYSTEM E-M1 MarkIII ASTRO is a dedicated camera for astrophotography that optimizes the IR cut filter located in front of the image sensor of the mirrorless single-lens camera E-M1 MarkIII for astrophotography, allowing you to capture colorful red nebulae that are popular among astrophotography enthusiasts. In addition, the filters included with this product, OM SYSTEM’s computational photography, and M.ZUIKO DIGITAL lenses enable a wide range of expression from starry sky photography to full-scale astrophotography such as constellations and nebulae.”

• The OM SYSTEM E-M1 MarkIII ASTRO is a camera dedicated to astrophotography that optimizes the IR cut filter located in front of the image sensor of the E-M1 MarkIII mirrorless single-lens camera for astrophotography, allowing it to capture colorful images of red nebulae, which are popular among astrophotography enthusiasts.
• The filters included with this product, the OM SYSTEM’s computational photography, and M.ZUIKO DIGITAL lenses enable a wide range of possibilities, from starry sky photography to full-scale astronomical photography such as constellations and nebulae.
• The optical characteristics of the IR cut filter located in front of the image sensor have been optimized to ensure approximately 100% transmittance of Hα rays, which are important for astronomical photography. This allows the camera to vividly capture the beautiful shapes and colors of nebulae that emit light from Hα rays, which is difficult to capture with ordinary digital cameras.
• “Handheld High Res Shot” aligns each image when compositing, so by taking “Handheld High Res Shot” shots while the camera is fixed to a tripod, a composite image is generated in which the movement of the stars due to their diurnal motion has been corrected. Also, when using an equatorial mount, a composite image is generated in which the misalignment of the stars caused by tracking errors has been corrected.
• To make it easy to use for those just starting out in astrophotography, the camera is equipped with convenient camera settings for starry sky photography in the custom modes C1 and C2 (mode dial). In addition to the initial settings such as setting AF mode to Starry Sky AF and LV Boost to On2, frequently used functions in the astrophotography flow can be assigned to buttons for quick access.
• The OM SYSTEM E-M1 MarkIII ASTRO comes with two types of body-mounted filters that are convenient for astrophotography: a body-mounted light pollution cut filter and a body-mounted soft filter.

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