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A limited quantity of refurbished Black E-Pm1 cameras with kit lens are for sale for $199 only on [shoplink 47995 ebay]eBay US (Click here)[/shoplink]. That’s pretty low price!
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I could get more excited about stale donuts!!!! 🙂
I’ll have a couple stale sugar donuts please
I bought a similar kit for my wife last xMas for $179.99 Canadian, just over $200 delivered.
E-PM1 kits have been going for that price for nearly two years on eBay. As soon as the 16MP Olympus cameras started coming out, the 12MP ones were nearly worthless due to their extremely poor high ISO performance.
I’d say keep shopping. 😉
And just like last time, not a very good deal. Olympus outlet sells E-PM2 with a kit lens for $199, sometimes with 15-20% discount. A good deal on E-PM1 would be something like $129.
Agree to an extent with the comments – but as a second or third camera I think I might have preffered the mk1 over the mk2 because of the nice build materials. But I probably wouldn’t pay $200..
So like, we are now stuck with 50 buck sensors and overpriced camera bodies. Almost every Olympus camera is using THE SAME EXACT SENSOR. You can take practically the same images with a 200 dollar olympus as you can with the EM1. It’s not just olympus though, all of the manufacturers are pulling the same trick. No wonder the market is dying.
Yeh. Canon is doing the same for the past 5 years or so.
But there are other manufacturers like Sony who are bringing new sensor often. Wish they had few more lenses.
With the usual difference that spans first tier and third tier, yes, Canon has not innovated their sensors a lot.
To be fair, the E-M1 actually does use a different part from the E-M5. I have both and I find the low light performance is pretty different and the DR/recoverability is noticeably better on the E-M1, especially for highlights. I find I’m adding contrast more to the E-M1’s photos because of its greater shadow and highlight detail.
You can also see the difference with the E-M1 while changing lenses: the sensor is a different color and in the right light at the right angle, you can see the phase-detection bands near the middle. They look like 7 horizontal lines of varying lengths with the largest in the center.
That said, both cameras are pretty similar in their capabilities. They’re just different enough to notice during post production and for the photos to require slightly different treatment.
Also, I did recommend an E-PM2 to a friend, and while it’s technically capable of the same image quality, the missing roll axis on the stabilization means he can get clear shots down to about 1/20 of a second with a standard (25mm) whereas I can go much lower with stationary subjects. I routinely shoot at 1/5 of a second and as low as 1 second hand-held in low light to preserve noise performance or depth of field. You simply can’t do that with less advanced stabilization systems.
3-axis should be enough to do 1/5 for non-macro but 2 axis in my experience only buys you about another stop, if that.
Yes it’s old and yes, the 12MP sensor is quite noisy. But for casual shooting in good light, the jpegs from my e-pl2 kick my em-5’s butt big time. Again, that’s for jpegs in good light, but that might be all some people need.
Yeah, I agree. The low dynamic range makes for punchy tones with the 12MP sensor, until the noise sets in. Not a bad camera, just not terribly versatile.
“The low dynamic range makes for punchy tones ” LOL what have you smoked?
Seriously, my impression of the E-PM1’s RAW files is that they look like you’ve taken the RAW files out of another camera, darkened the blacks and brightened the whites. It only has 10 stops of DR, so that’s actually the look you’re getting: contrasty without much highlight or shadow detail.
This is sometimes a processing preference of mine: if I want more contrast and visual weight on the mid-tones, I may clip the highlights and/or shadows intentionally. In fact I do it about 40-50% of the time with the E-M1 because it simply has more dynamic range than I want for some shots. Landscapes are the obvious exception: there I’m generally able to recover the sky and shadows. I shoot landscapes with highlight/shadow alert enabled so that I can be sure everything is recoverable. This is virtually impossible with the E-PM1. But punchy and contrasty in good light…it does that very well.
The thing is, you can easily adjust the settings or post process afterward to get this look, but when you have poor DR to begin with, there is no going back. Sure, you can shoot raw and see what you can recover, but lost information is lost forever.
Even with my newer 16mp body, I often underexpose, and boost the shadows in post. The noise is low enough on the new sensors that it holds up unless you go crazy.
On the old 12mp bodies, they had their own look, and it was often nice- but you were stuck with it. I almost forgot skies had color after 2 years with the e-pl1!
Exactly. I also underexpose my landscapes on the E-M1, just enough to keep the details in the sky.
I’d never say that cameras with low DR take bad pictures…otherwise nobody would use a Canon. But that extra dynamic range sure is nice when you want to do some recovery.
You are totally right, in fact I use my old e-pl2 mainly for portraits, with 45mm or, even better, with legacy glass. With some of the old lenses I own (canon fd 1.4, zeiss sonnar 90mm) and good light, the old sensor’s jpegs can be absolutely spectacular.