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January 2010
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Bottom Line
First Look
The attractive Olympus Pen EP2 serves up unique incamera controls
Interchangeable lenses
And a compact design
But it costs significantly more than an entrylevel DSLR.
Excellent resolution with lots of detail in the shots
Appealing
Bright and punchy out of camera results and well optimized JPEGs
Improved AF performance (though kit lens holds it back)
Pretty retro design puts SLR quality into a compact body
Collapsible kit lens is small and offers decent quality
Superb optional viewfinder aids stable holding and shooting in bright light
Good high ISO perf
Small
Inspiring design
Mirrorless design allows smaller optics
Smaller body
Very compact lens designs
Compatibility with a wide range of existing lens designs using adapters
Albeit with limitations
Good heft
But reasonably light at only one pou...
D-SLR-quality images. Sharp images from ISO 100-800 at all f-stops. Low noise from ISO 100-1600. Attractive design. 720p30 HD video capture. Mini HDMI port.
Image quality
New EVF
Handling
Super Control Panel
Creative feature set
IAuto mode
Dust reduction system
Styling
Build
Art filters
Lens
EVF.
Compact
12megapixel camera with interchangeable lenses. Giant LCD screen. Great lowlight performance
Professional features including full manual control and RAW mode. That design is hot
Son. Hot!
Striking design
Excellent build quality
Very good photo quality
Compact body with DSLR-sized sensor
Built-in stabilisation which works with any lens
Accessory port and superb EVF supplied
HD movie mode and HDMI port.
Retrostyling
Incamera image stabilisation
Lownoise image quality
The editors didn't like
Some highlight clipping (and poor dynamic range at ISO 100)
Low resolution screen that's hard to see in bright light
I-Enhance picture mode can't be disengaged when using iAuto
No built-in flash (and the optional flash is expensive and pretty basic)
Complicated menu system not that easy to navigate
Preview image brightness doesn't always match the captured image brightness
No quick way to s
Relatively limited Micro Four Thirds lens selection from Olympus (as of April
2010)
Short battery life (especially compared to an SLR)
No built-in flash
New accessory port devices hijack flash hot shoe
And don't daisy-chain -- so accessories can't...
Slow autofocus. No built-in flash. Electronic viewfinder is no match for an optical viewfinder. Camera picks up lens motor noise when shooting video.
No custom mode setting
No (built-in) viewfinder
EVF needs hot shoe
Price
Screen in brighter conditions.
A good deal more expensive than the nearly identical EP1. Costs about the same as a fullsized DSLR. LCD viewfinder is lowerresolution than the main LCD and is annoyingly laggy. Viewfinder also hogs flash hotshoe
D-SLR-quality images. Sharp images from ISO 100-800 at all f-stops. Low noise from ISO 100-1600. Attractive design. 720p30 HD video capture. Mini HDMI port.
Slow autofocus. No built-in flash. Electronic viewfinder is no match for an optical viewfinder. Camera picks up lens motor noise when shooting video.
The E-P2 Micro Four Thirds camera has all the benefits and shortfalls of the less expensive E-P1, but it also includes a detachable electronic viewfinder....
With the tweaks and refinements to the Olympus E-P2 being relatively modest, existing E-P1 owners shouldn't feel the need for an upgrade. To sum up, chief 'improvements' are the newly included EVF and port for such, (slightly) enhanced functio...
Compact body with DSLR-sized sensor, Built-in stabilisation which works with any lens, Accessory port and superb EVF supplied, HD movie mode and HDMI port.
Leisurely AF system and so-so face detection, No built-in flash and average resolution screen, Superb EVF adds considerably to cost, Newer E-PL1 a compelling alternative.
The Olympus E-P2 takes the already compelling E-P1 and equips it with the ability to connect an external microphone via an optional adapter or fit a supplied electronic viewfinder. And it's not just any old electronic viewfinder either. Unlike the dis...
Abstract: As many DSLRs get bigger and heavier, a new class of camera, the Micro Four Thirds camera has introduced the idea of an interchangeable lens camera that is almost as small as a point-and-shoot camera. Offerings by Panasonic and Olympus have provided e...
Bottom Line, First Look: The attractive Olympus Pen EP2 serves up unique incamera controls, interchangeable lenses, and a compact design, but it costs significantly more than an entrylevel DSLR.
First Look: The attractive Olympus Pen E-P2 serves up unique in-camera controls, interchangeable lenses, and a compact design, but it costs significantly more than an entry-level DSLR. ...
Abstract: of Micro Four Thirds the format has found its niche. MFT does away with prisms and reflex mirrors but retains the same size sensor as its larger predecessor. Instead we have cameras with Live View LCDs, and also built-in or accessory electronic viewfi...
Abstract: When the Olympus P1 was introduced, people admired this bold step by Olympus. The PEN camera was and is in many ways a unique camera, although Panasonic has now introduced a similar camera. The design of the Olympus PEN P2 camera is virtually identical...
Abstract: Santa visited my house early this year, and dropped off the new Olympus E-P2 Micro Four Thirds digital camera. The first Olympus Micro Four Thirds camera, the E-P1, passed through Gadling earlier this year, and left me mighty impressed, so in this firs...
This is our First Look at a pre-production E-P2 Digital Pen camera. Please check back in the next few weeks to see our in-depth conclusion, once we are able to put a full production unit through the paces.Just five months ago, Olympus announced their f...
Abstract: This is a preview of the Olympus E-P2 interchangeable lens camera. The camera described here is preproduction, and the features described in this article may be different in the final product. Olympus has requested that photos from this preproduction ...
