Olympus E-PL5 LCD stays upside down after flipping the screen back down

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On an Olympus PEN Lite E-PL5, the tilting/selfie LCD normally flips orientation when the screen is raised fully upright, then returns to normal when folded back down. Mine stayed upside down after using the selfie position. Is there any way to recalibrate or reset the screen orientation sensor, or perform a factory reset when the Reset/Myset option is disabled?

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Not strictly an answer, but upgrading the firmware from v1.3 to v1.6 seems to have done the trick. I orientated the screen up, folded it back down and the LCD image has returned to normal.

Update - the issue has returned, so I've upgraded to an OM-D E-M10 Mark III.

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A reported fix for this on the E-PL5 was updating the camera firmware: one user found that upgrading from firmware v1.3 to v1.6 restored normal LCD orientation after flipping the screen up and back down. There’s no confirmed recalibration method for the orientation sensor in the provided answers, and no factory-reset procedure was established there.

So the most practical step is to check your current firmware version and install the latest available Olympus firmware for the E-PL5. If the issue returns even after updating, it may indicate an intermittent hardware or sensor-related fault rather than a settings problem.

Olympus E-PL5 LCD stays upside down after flipping the screen back down

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