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You can download the new Olympus E-PL2 manual (Source: Olympus America and ForumOlympusFrance).
Manuals For Download:
– E-PL2 Instruction Manual (English) (4.42 MB)
– E-PL2 System Chart (English, Español, Français) (400 KB)
– E-PL2 Manual de Instrucciones (Español) (4.77 MB)
– E-PL2 Manuel d’instructions (Français) (4.49 MB)
P.S.: Right now the Red (Click here), Silver (Click here) and the Black (Click here) E-PL2 are in Stock at Adorama. Black only E-PL2 is also in Stock at Amazon (Click here) and Bhphoto (Click here)
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wow … got it before you get told to remove the link!
(I’m waiting for LR to support E-PL2 before I get one)
Gee, I’m so glad you posted this. Not sure where I’d be without it. Great content.
The XZ-1 manual can also be had (at least for the moment) by changing the file name at the end of the URL. I just downloaded the English version by entering XZ-1_Instruction_Manual_EN.pdf
All Olympus 4/3 and m4/3 manuals for all products are publicly available at Olympus Japan site. This is not a great secret. I just like that site better since all products’ manuals are listed on a single page.
http://www.olympus.co.jp/en/support/imsg/digicamera/download/manual/dslr.cfm
http://www.olympus.co.jp/en/support/imsg/digicamera/download/manual/pen.cfm
thanks – bookmarked those links
Nikon don’t allow this sort of thing!
About the E-PL2 features compared to PL1:
– new and I think great feature is the ability to adjust the tone curve for highlights and shadows separately (p.38)
– It seems that in P-mode the dial and EV-compensation does not work like in E-series DSRL: turning the dial adjusts EV. After pressing +- the buttons adjust the EV and up-down adjusts program shift. It should work the other way round.
I am not sure the dial is at all that usable in E-PL2. It is not used on several occasions where it should. There seems to be need to press those directional buttons anyway. Maybe they fix this in the next firmware update.
After glancing through the manual it seems like the UI experience is still pretty much the same as in PL1. Which I have and which I do _not_ hate at all.
VilleV: Presumably you can change the dial behaviour as documented on page 79 of the manual. I haven’t used a camera with a single dial recently since I sold my E-510, but it looks from the manual that the E-PL2 defaults to doing EV while the E-620 defaults to doing program shift. But it is simple to change the defaults.
Thanks for pointing that out. I missed that on first read.
Is it possible to find a printed user manual for Olympus E-PL2?