Computational photography offers further inspiration for creative shooting.

The OM-5 is equipped with Handheld High Res Shot. This feature enables hand-held shooting from nearly any angle while capturing high-resolution images.

This model is equipped with Tripod High Res Shot, which supports flash photography and allows you to generate approximately 50 MP high-resolution photos. Two types of High Res Shot can be used depending on the shooting environment and subjects.

By quasi-lengthening of the exposure time, all lenses are capable of slow shutter speed effects as if an ND filter is attached. These effects can be selected from 1 to 4 levels and can be checked in the viewfinder. Not only does this feature eliminate the need to switch filters for shooting scenes and lenses, but it is great for lenses where filter attachment is difficult, such as the M.Zuiko Digital ED 7-14mm F2.8 PRO and M.Zuiko Digital ED 8mm F1.8 Fisheye PRO.

Focus Stacking captures eight shots at different focal positions and automatically generates a single image. This allows you to incorporate background defocusing effects without excessively stopping down the aperture for a large depth of field. You can adjust the focal steps to best match the size of the subject (Approximately seven percent of the angle of view from the top, bottom, and sides is lost on focused stacked images).

The focal location is shifted slightly with each shutter activation for up to 999 shots. You can select from 10 levels of focus shift. Recorded photos can be composited in OM Workspace. This feature makes it possible to easily capture with a very deep depth of field that is difficult to obtain simply by stopping down the aperture when shooting. Also, using Focus Stacking on the camera makes it possible to generate images that are in focus across a wide area.

This function captures split-second photo opportunities that time lag usually makes it impossible. The camera begins recording 20M images once the shutter button is pressed halfway, and retains up to 14 frames of the most recent images when the shutter button is pressed fully.