The biggest issue, though, is the Micro Four Thirds sensor: as we mention below, its smaller size means it’s not quite as handy in low-light situations as we’d like at this price. Nor is the E-M1 II’s electronic viewfinder as large and clear as the Fujifilm X-T2’s. It’s not without slight issues, though: it’s the biggest and heaviest camera of the bunch (but still almost feather-like compared to a high-end DSLR), and at £1850 before you’ve even bought a lens, it feels just a little bit too expensive in comparison to the Fujifilm. It’s the least they can do at this price. There’s also five-axis image stabilisation inside the body, meaning any lens you bolt on will benefit from the anti-shake technology and w hile there’s no pop-up flash, Olympus included a mini external unit that can be fitted on the hot shoe. It’s a great feature that you’ll come to rely on in certain situations.

How? Well, as soon as you focus by half-pressing the shutter button, the E-M1 II will begin buffering images fully press and it’ll start snapping away, but will also keep the last 14 of those buffered shots. Heck, shoot in the buffering Pro Shutter mode and it’ll even let you go BACK IN TIME to get a shot you’d otherwise have missed. It’s also extremely fast: it’ll snap bursts at an insane 60fps (albeit for less than a second at that speed, and only in electronic shutter mode), while the autofocus is almost as rapid, not to mention military-like in its precision. It’s built like a bank safe and thoroughly weather-proofed – we used it in a horrific January downpour and got splashed by a wave from the ocean it did not care one bit.

Forget the frightening price tag for a second the OM-D E-M1 II is a hugely impressive flagship compact system camera from a company that has championed CSCs from day one.

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