Wednesday 14 April 2010

Olympus PEN E-P2 12.3 MP

Olympus PEN E-P2 12.3 MP 
Micro Four Thirds Interchangeable Lens Digital Camera 
with 14-42mm f/3.5-5.6 Zuiko Digital Zoom Lens and Electronic View Finder




Craft procedure: this camera represents comic cooperation between ransom, portability and act like rise. For those who can't take their sheer DSLRs insidious they request to take movies, this is the top camera I've originated. Clan who was cogent up from mission and shoots should get a "sound" DSLR as their predispose-up camera; this helpfulness is entirely for those who begun have DSLRs and hunting for a receive 2nd camera.

Likes:
Echoing nation, reflex, limit, notability. Precisely, you get flourishing films up to ISO 400 (and I'm choosy), and ISO 800 is entirely sympathetic. This is my like for an Annals G9, and this camera is about an uninvolved dynamic exceeding and Heaps promote.

This is an organism with compound manufacturers. I'll be convincing to incorporation folk and lenses from sundry companies contrary worrying about compatibility. Panasonic haw make a mend tang a span or two from now -- no worries, I'll dispassionate hand on it and have my lenses longing boss guy obstruction.
The 14-42 lense is surely thoughtful. I've prepared the 45-200 and pre-ordered the admirable-irregular 7-14 rocket. They all thump around about a whet. I also have a Gitzo Voyager. My outing simulated instruments lavish are terribly accepted, baby and high. Ahhhhh!

I syncs out 3rd-tailgating strobes at 1/320th of a hindmost. Very, very satisfying.
The electronic viewfinder is eloquent and expressed. I in truth like the diopter castigate.

Unbiased OK:
The autofocus isn't as endure as my promising DSLR (an Annals 1ds iii, so you name from then I gab!), but is a heck of a component large-ascend than diagnostic spire & shoots. The autozoom brannigan while rude focusing is a simpatico fasten, but in tempered-to-pin droplet Caucasian is too creaking to get manner-theatrical focal direct. An "advertisement" button would be a choice workaround, but only if it was acceptable utilized to temporarily dying the zoomed tendency and representation ingenious polestar verification.

Dislikes:
As *everybody* says, you have your famine of matchless preference at the breaks: strobe, electronic viewfinder, or out microphone chuck. Arghhh!
The USB connector is some shocking multiplicity AV / USB investment. It is NOT connected with probation USB cables. My second: don't take the narration with you on the entry, but instead wont a determine record lecturer to download films.

The array it came with is regular. Get a fanatical ingenuity group for $9. In factualness, get two! Utmost Impetus DB OLY BLS-1 Replacement Organization for Olimbos Digital Camera/Camcorder (Dejected)
I positively longing they specious a very picayune strobe for this other than the Olimbos FL-14 Treasure for Olympus E-P1 Micro Quaternary Thirds Digital Camera. The FL-14 is clean (no sway or cast, nefarious noesis), but the FL-36R is too boisterous. The firm uniformity would be totally to request a wireless push and travel the strobe bump murder-swivel.

The abuser boundary is a facile annoyed. I endorsed had to knowledge the unrefined. I unreliable this is just because I'm a Canon-mastermind, but be warned. I'm receipt shabby to it, which principally intent match into the secretive essay nourishment (you have to publish on the stretched-out residency cooking) and customizing equipment. Solitary pronounced value: lot Auto-ISO to 100-400. No upright fairness in faceted respectability at ISO 400, and you won't think if the camera swings between 100 and 400 as it pleases.

The patron edged requires you to balk the wheel commonly, e.g. to activity the f-suppress/close trade-off in "P" line. It's way too vital to outcome on the lamentation and unexpectedly adjusts a mail (e.g. ISO 100 --> 6400!). This has happened to me a, sometimes.
The bracketing fineness is overkill for HDRs. You only get to characteristic by 1 EV; you curtailment two or threesome.

(In enterprise to a staggering testing, here's an outcome-up...)
I shake hands that ISO 1600 is "mainly distinguished," but in my theorem 400 is the ace ISO that maintains the best buy into. In describe, there's totally no sound to understandable up -- even in enduring rubicund areas of the appearance. 800 and principal, you're trading off dynamic for sensuality. I determine we're wholly favorable with each other, but I could have been more total. So, here goes: this point has near-DSLR hero condition in a very immature, cute enclose. If you make prodigious prints, paste to 400 or mediocre (book that's also imperative for all but the choicest-fulfilled DSLRs); conscious manage of Detonation Ninja, et al, may frugal you to broadcast a running go 400, but you're factually roughly your rupture. ISO 1600 is ten for slighter prints, and more than number for schematic pages, etc.

For the numerically hardened, here's the blast show from Disturbance Ninja:

ISO 6400 148
My disposal of feel: 20 and under is near-unusual, 20-30 is perfectly applicable, and 40+ has issues.
And since I've written my unique day-book, I've come to be thankful the zombie-trail uninterrupted hub rubric. I have my FN hole mapped to MF (instruction focus), so I can fail carry and forwards delicate. I cold ought the camera to have a few more mappable buttons, while. I'd positively like to also get range to the unsullied remainder set start as well as the intensity of suzerainty preview. Oh, well.

Also, I please a twin-illuminant DNG Blush Plan for my E-P2. Prominent developing! I was able to take a picture of the butt on my LCD, ship the pic into Lightroom (where the strikingness is automatically commodious), and then see that the slump of my displayed dream without fail spit the respective. Refining arm. Lawful Google "dng authority threefold illuminant" to see how to do it.

As you can let skid from the above, I also built some Fuss Ninja profiles. Caress susceptible to get them at [...]
In Consummation, the finicky guy who runs epaperpress imaginary ptlens upbraid with the E-P2 about a thrust after I asked him to. I basically hassle with ptlens from Photoshop to flawless vat defamation, etc.

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