Update:
Unfortunately, I believe the posting on the B&H website that the
Olympus OM-3 is a 14 bit camera is an error. What concerned
me was the too-great similarity of some of the OM-3 sensor specs
to those of previous cameras.
So I went to the Olympus website.
go to: https://explore.omsystem.com/us/en/om-3
scroll 'way down to nearly the bottom and click on the box that says
VIEW PRODUCT SPECS
then scroll down to "Recording Formats", and click on that
it clearly displays: RAW 12bit
As a check, I also viewed the website in French, and under
"Formats d'enregistrement"
it clearly displays: RAW 12 bits
I'm assuming here, of course, that the official Olympus website
is more likely to be correct than the B&H website.
This was a big disappointment to me as the ONE THING
I really miss in my micro 4/3s system is exactly what you
described earlier: the slight but occasionally noticeable
lack of smoothness in some tonal transitions
Thanks Mark for digging in and finding this. If they would just switch to 14-bit we wouldn't have this confusion with spec pages.
Unfortunately, I believe the posting on the B&H website that the
Olympus OM-3 is a 14 bit camera is an error. What concerned
me was the too-great similarity of some of the OM-3 sensor specs
to those of previous cameras.
So I went to the Olympus website.
go to: https://explore.omsystem.com/us/en/om-3
scroll 'way down to nearly the bottom and click on the box that says
VIEW PRODUCT SPECS
then scroll down to "Recording Formats", and click on that
it clearly displays: RAW 12bit
As a check, I also viewed the website in French, and under
"Formats d'enregistrement"
it clearly displays: RAW 12 bits
I'm assuming here, of course, that the official Olympus website
is more likely to be correct than the B&H website.
This was a big disappointment to me as the ONE THING
I really miss in my micro 4/3s system is exactly what you
described earlier: the slight but occasionally noticeable
lack of smoothness in some tonal transitions
Thanks Mark for digging in and finding this. If they would just switch to 14-bit we wouldn't have this confusion with spec pages.