It can do either. If you turn off the denoise for the whole photo, the face can be addressed separately and the noise reduced on just the face.
Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania:
Oly 7-14mm f/2.8, 10 sec, f/3.2, iso 6400, EM1 MKII.
[quote=mej49]I have an OM1 on order and I am impressed that you were able to get it in so short of time.
Actually, I ordered mine in late February and picked it up the second week in April. :-)
I replaced my D800 with the OM-1, then upgraded to the MkII and MkIII over the years, and the OM-1 a couple weeks ago. The OM-1 menu is more user friendly, modes as stacking and Hi-res compute much faster, and 'subject detection' auto-focus is just amazing (bird detection even works for airplanes :-) I haven't noticed a great difference in noise at high ISO but haven't looked very carefully either.
Although 'jpg to raw AI' doesn't work on Mac Big Sur or Monterey, you can use Gigapixel at 1:1 to make the conversion.
I used the Olympus 12-40 and 40-150mm (effectively 24-300mm) about equally. Also had a Nikon 70-300mm on a D800. Those were fine for just about all that we saw.
Olympus just came out with free software that allows several of the Oly cameras to act as webcams.
Refurbished EM10 mkII is now $429 with 14-42 mm at the Olympus site and the camera has 'live composite.'
Refurbished EM10 mkII is now $429 with 14-42 mm at the Olympus site and the camera has 'live composite.'
Check the capabilities of the Olympus Tough TG-5 or TG-6.