OM System OM-3 Body Only

The OM System OM-3 is a compact system camera that features a range of advanced specifications tailored for both enthusiastic photographers and professionals seeking a lightweight yet powerful imaging tool. Its design and capabilities make it a versatile camera for various photography genres, including travel, nature, and action photography. The advanced 20.4MP Stacked BSI Live MOS Micro Four Thirds Sensor design offers improved light gathering capabilities, resulting in high-quality images with reduced noise, even in low light conditions. The stacked structure facilitates faster readout speeds, benefiting video recording and high-speed stills. The TruePic X Engine is a new, more powerful image processing engine that enhances image quality across the board. It delivers faster processing speeds, improved color rendition, and enhanced noise reduction capabilities. A high-resolution 3.0" 1.62m-dot swivel touchscreen LCD screen offers crisp image playback and live view. Its swivel design allows for flexible shooting angles, making it especially useful for vlogging or shooting in challenging positions. High-resolution 2.36m-dot OLED electronic viewfinder that provides a clear and detailed view of your subject, making it easier to compose shots in bright light conditions where using the LCD screen might be difficult.

The powerful 5-axis in-body image stabilization system compensates for camera shake on five different axes, significantly reducing the appearance of blur in stills and creating smoother video footage, even when shooting handheld. A dedicated button for quickly accessing innovative computational photography features, including High-Res Shot, Live ND, and Composite modes, which allow for creative in-camera effects. The OM System OM-3 features that leverage the camera’s computational power to create high-resolution composite images, apply neutral density effects without a filter, and combine multiple exposures for creative imagery, all in-camera. The camera is built to withstand harsh weather conditions, being both weather-sealed against dust and moisture and freezeproof down to certain temperatures, making it an ideal companion for outdoor photography. It supports fast UHS-II SD cards for quick write speeds, necessary for capturing high-resolution images and video without lag.

Product Features in Detail

Born to create.
Experience creative freedom redefined. The OM SYSTEM OM-3 empowers you to explore and push the boundaries of what’s possible. Unleash your creativity, wherever your inspiration takes you - urban, remote, and everywhere in between.

Creative.
Adjustable Colour and Monochrome Profiles, Colour Creator, and more.

Computational.
Have direct access to enhance your images with versatile in-camera computational features. 

Reliable.
Creativity doesn’t have to stop in harsh weather conditions.

See the OM-3 in action
With the right eye, you’ll see it. With the right tool, you’ll capture it. Discover the OM-3 with our technical experts in these short videos on creativity and connectivity.

Creative Dial
With the Creative Dial, you can simulate film profiles, use the Colour Creator, and more.

Computational Photography button 
Access multiple creative features quickly with the Computational Photography button.

Still, video and S&Q switch
Switch instantly between still, video, and creative Slow and Quick Motion video modes.

WiFi & OI.Share app
Share your art with the world and control your camera with Wi-Fi and the free OI.Share app.

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Heritage x Function
The form and function of the OM-3 are a testament to our innovative legacy. Inspired by its iconic predecessor, the Film OM-1, it seamlessly blends our heritage with modern engineering, featuring a metal body and weather-sealing to truly untether yourself from everyday life and embrace new adventures.

Classic meets cutting-edge
Elegant design encased in a premium metal body, combining ergonomic craftsmanship with enduring reliability much like its original predecessor.

Engineered comfort, crafted elegance
When form follows function, every switch and dial is enjoyable to use. It draws aesthetic inspiration from vintage OM SYSTEM cameras that first appeared in the 1970s.

The past in the present
The OM-3 embodies nearly a century of history, a legacy built on dedication to creating cameras that capture life’s most precious moments.

Creative freedom, reimagined.
The OM-3 brings back the creative dial offering complete control for your creative expression. Through the new Creative Dial you have access to four film-like colour profiles and four monochrome profiles, bringing a timeless aesthetic to your photography.

Creative Dial
Creative Dial is your gateway to creative photography. With Colour and Mono modes, you can choose from eight distinct, film-like profiles to match your vision. The Colour Creator mode allows you to craft unique monochromatic looks and fine-tune colours to suit your exact preferences. Art Mode brings all the art filters into easy access.

Colour and monochrome profiles
Colour and monochrome profiles can be saved as presets to unleash your creativity. You can customise each film-like profile to your liking and share them with others.
4x Colour Profiles
4x Monochrome Profiles

Sharing your film-like profiles
After customizing your colour and monochrome profiles, you can share them with other users, who can then upload them to their camera via OM Workspace.
OM Workspace is OM SYSTEM’s free photo editing and image management software.

Built-in computational features.
Computational features are at the heart of making complex photography techniques easier and achievable like never before. The OM-3 introduces a new way to enable making computational photography the centre of your creative with the new ‘CP’ button.
With just a single press, you can seamlessly access multiple advanced computational photography features, simplifying the creative process.

Live ND & Live GND
No more clumsy filters. OM-3 hold inside the power of Neutral Density filters up to ND64 to capture long exposure shots even in daylight. With Graduated Neutral Density filter you have freedom to position the graduation precisely as you like.
Live ND up to ND64
Live GND up to ND8

High Res Shot
The High Res Shot mode lets you capture stunning details either in 80MP or 50MP modes and now, you can capture high res shots in 14-bit RAW with three times the tones.

Focus stacking and much more!
OM-3 builds in yet so much more from Focus Stacking and bracketing to Live Composite and AI subject Detection AF.
AI detection works with humans too.

Compact, lightweight, and durable.
The OM-3 is designed for robust use, meeting the demands of creative outdoor photographers - from cityscapes to natural landscapes, rain or shine. The OM-3 weighs less than 500 grams while maintaining an IP53-rated, full-metal body.
You need to test it to realise how the camera should feel like!

IP53 Rating
IP53 certified for reliability in any weather—perfect for both urban adventures and nature explorations. OM-3’s internal seals, reinforced with rubber gaskets, ensure reliable protection against the nature’s elements.

From heat to freezing cold
Camera is built to stand extreme weather from heat of Sahara to Arctic Circle’s freezing tempatures. OM-3 is:
Splashproof
Freezeproof
Dustproof

Super Sonic Wave Filter
OM-3’s dust reduction system ensures camera’s internals stay clean, so your photos remain flawless and free of distractions.
Super Sonic Wave Filter vibrates over 30,000 times per second upon startup of the camera.

Uncompromised performance
The OM-3 doesn’t compromise on image quality even in its compact size. Featuring our most advanced TruePic X processor, Stacked BSI Live MOS Quad Pixel sensor and class-leading image stablisation; the OM-3 is built to deliver reliability and performance every time.

IBIS up to 7.5 stops EV
The OM-3’s image stabilisation sets bar high for its class. Up 7.5 stops EV with Sync IS lenses and 6.5 stops EV internally, you can capture the energy of city streets or the beauty of wildlife with ease.

Quad Pixel AF
The OM-3 features our latest backside-illuminated Stacked Live MOS sensor with 100% autofocus coverage and 1,053 AF points for unmatched accuracy and versatility.

Sequential shooting up to 120fps
The OM-3 delivers incredible speeds, with 120 fps sequential shooting in S-AF mode.
In C-AF mode, the camera can track subjects at up to 50 fps, ensuring precise focus on fast-moving objects.

Creative storytelling
With the OM-3 create captivating stories in stills or video. The introduction of a video & stills dial allows you to seamlessly switch between the two, along with easily access Slow & Quick Motion modes. Activating this feature preserves your settings across capture modes whilst enabling creative video capabilities right at your fingertips. To enhance your creative visual storytelling, the OM-3 also introduces two new video colour profiles in OM Cinema 1 & 2.

Quick & Slow video switch
Easily record slow-motion videos that capture movements too fast for the eye to follow and hyperlapse videos that condense long recording times.

OM Cinema 1 & 2
OM-3 introduces all-new creative video modes, OM Cinema 1 & 2. With these new modes you can capture cinematic videos without need of colour grading.

OM-Log400 & RAW
OM-3 is capable of capturing internal 10-bit H.265 video with OM-Log400 colour profile, preserving more data in highlights and shadows. ProRes RAW capture is also available through external recorder.