Completedigitalphotography.com is giving you the final answer! …or may not? They recommend you the Panasonic GF1. Thom Hogan recommends you the Olympus E-P1, I recommend you to focus the attention on your real needs!
Completedigitalphotography.com is giving you the final answer! …or may not? They recommend you the Panasonic GF1. Thom Hogan recommends you the Olympus E-P1, I recommend you to focus the attention on your real needs!
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Well, and I finally (!) decided to forego m43. Not gladly.
A friend of mine bought the E-P1 (partly because I coached him to), I had it for a weekend, and while it’s a great, no, lovely camera, the image quality is just not there.
I just tried the k-x for a day, and it’s a difference like night and day. That’s an incredible sensor for the money (wait: for any money)
I really tried to talk myself into m43, like: “‘You buy into the system (lenses), a better backend/sensor will come”, but I just can’t stand the noise at all iso, even in bright daylight. Also, going to flickr groups of m43 and apc-c cameras, the apc-c images generally look better to my eyes, even from entry-level groups/bodies.
Sad, I really looked forward to the small body. And I have no trouble with no VF, no flash and slow autofocus… And I don’t even need high iso. iso200 performance is it for me, and it’s just not there (compared with modern aps-c sensors).
Sorry for the long rant, but I just agonized over it for the last two weeks, and I really wanted the e-p1 to win. Didn’t.
(The GF1 is not even a contender for me, no stabilization, bad jpeg engine, fast af not important for me; only the 20mm kit on the pro side)
” I recommend you to focus the attention on your real needs!”
Well, my real needs are to have the out-of-the-camera image quality of E-P1/2 and the focus speed of GF-1.
That is why I haven’t bought a m4/3 camera yet and I will not until the two brands engage in real competition.
The IQ of the E-P1 is amazing.