Olympus E-M5 vs Sony A58

Olympus E-M5 advantages over Sony A58

• Lens selection
  Excellent vs Good
  Better lens selection gives you more options
• Touchscreen
  Touch vs No touch
  Interact with your camera just like your smartphone
• Fast startup
  ~1.10 vs 1.9 sec
  Faster startup lets you catch the moment
• More telephoto lens reach
  100 mm vs 83 mm
  Capture objects farther away with the kit lens
• Thinner
  43 mm vs 77 mm
  Thinner
• Higher max flash sync
  1/250 vs 1/160 sec
  Reduce the effect of ambient light in flash shots
• Higher-res screen
  205k vs 154k pixels
  More detail on the screen lets you judge focus and composition
• Shoots 60p video
  Yes vs No
  A faster framerate can give you more editing options
• Wider angle kit lens
  24 mm vs 27 mm
  Capture more of the scene with the included lens
• Longer exposure
  60 vs 30 sec
  Long exposures for night shots
• Faster JPEG shooting
  8.9 fps vs 4.9 fps
  Faster JPEG shooting (burst mode)
• Bigger JPEG buffer
  17 vs 8 shots
  Take more JPEG shots before waiting (burst mode)
• Faster RAW shooting
  9.0 fps vs 4.8 fps
  Faster RAW shooting in burst mode
• Bigger RAW buffer
  16 vs 6 shots
  Larger buffer for RAW shots (burst mode)
• Higher extended ISO
  25600 vs 16000 ISO
  Higher extended ISO can give more low-light flexibility