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This is a unique chance ot grab a MFT camera for less than $100: A limited Stock of Refurbished Black Olympus E-Pm1 cameras are for sale for $96 on [shoplink 49729 ebay]Blinq eBay (Click here)[/shoplink].
And there are massive new Black Friday deals you can check on those special pages at Amazon (Click here), BHphoto (Click here), Panasonic Store (Click here), eBay (Click here) and GetOlympus (Click here). This includes for example the up to 70% off on Sandisk Cards, up to $1,200 off on E-M5 kits, huge rebates on Lexar cards, $70 off on the Bower 14mm lens at BHphoto.
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Bargain. That 12mp sensor was nowhere near as bad as so many made out. I actually kept my EP2 as I liked the way the pictures looked.
You know, I had (at various times) an E-PL2, E-P2, E-P3, E-PM2, E-PL5 and E-P5, and the only one I miss is the E-P2.
It is sitting on my desk right now 🙂
I agree. I think my E-P2 produces nicer images than my E-P5. I really love that cam.
That 12 MP sensor was already left behind by the competition when it came out six years ago, just like the 5 MP E-1 sensor had been when the Four Thirds system was introduced. Only when the E-M5 came out, Olympus eventually had caught up.
That said, while the E-M5 or E-M1 (which I’ve got) does make the E-PL3 (which I’ve got) look really old, it’s still interesting to see how much better the E-PL3 is compared to the E-30 (which I’ve been using for many years now). But the difference comes primarily from a lighter/missing AA filter, so less sharpening is needed in processing, leaving noise slightly less pronounced. Noise as such didn’t change much since the E-30, and everything above ISO 3200 is still really unusable in the E-PL3, making the 12800 setting quite a joke.
You may have missed that I didn’t mention the competition at all. I did some tests with the em5 vs the dated e3, and at base iso the e3 had some lovely rich color and clearer reds.
Sometimes it is more about the way a lens looks than how it measures, and the same can be said about sensors.
I offered DPR readers the opportunity to match the e3 and omd colors with only the use of global sliders in raw, they couldn’t. It seems color may be baked a little harder into these sensors than people know, which would explain the preferences many have.
While it’s perfectly true that even when shooting RAW it is sometimes easier with one camera to produce the color rendition I want than with another, it doesn’t say anything about the sensors, it only says something about what the camera-specific profile embedded in that specific RAW converter gets out of a specific sensor for us to work with.
That said, I do find getting the colors right somewhat more difficult with the OM-D than I used to with the E-30, and one of the reasons is that the OM-D’s auto white balance is off more often, and often in a way I find rather difficult to correct.
These sensors still give a good deal better IQ than any small sensor compacts, and give the 1″ cams a run for their money. Had to beat at that price considering the kind of camera you can usually buy for $100.
The title should say: eBay Netherlands.
That’s a bargain indeed! I have one and while it does not have the OM-D E-M5 sensor (as the PM2 has) the quality for the money is hard to beat! Lightweight and compact as well.
FYI if you buy it directly from the Blinq website you can add the code WELCOMEBACK for a 10% discount so the final price will be $86.93. I guess that makes the deal even better.
The code does not seem to work.
Wait nm I tried it through Ebay. Will try the official store.
Thanks. I bought the last one.
Decent camera, but it’s old tech. However, I tested this baby against the Fuji X-E1 and guess what, it had better image quality.