Sony DSLR-A380 vs Olympus E-M5

Olympus E-M5 advantages over Sony DSLR-A380

• 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
• Higher effective ISO

  Higher effective ISO

  Maximum effective ISO is an estimate of the highest sensitivity at which a camera can capture excellent quality photos.

  Cameras with higher effective ISO will be better choices for indoor photography, night shooting, and indoor sports photography, especially if you intend to make large prints.

  You can learn more at our glossary entry.

  Maximum effective ISO test data courtesy of DxO Mark.

  E-M5 test data on DxO Mark DSLR-A380 test data on DxO Mark
  826 vs 614 iso
  Take photos in low light with less noise
• More telephoto lens reach
  100 mm vs 83 mm
  Capture objects farther away with the kit lens
• Thinner
  43 mm vs 71 mm
  Thinner
• Higher max flash sync
  1/250 vs 1/160 sec
  Reduce the effect of ambient light in flash shots
• More dots on screen
  614k vs 230k dots
  Can mean greater resolution or a brighter screen
• More viewfinder magnification
  0.58x vs 0.49x
  Get a bigger view of the scene through the eye-level viewfinder
• 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 1.7 fps
  Faster JPEG shooting (burst mode)
• Higher extended ISO
  25600 vs 3200 ISO
  Higher extended ISO can give more low-light flexibility