New Olympus E-P3, E-PM1, E-PL3 review and hands-on articles!
E-P3 AF speed test made by Unwire.
There are tons of new Pen and Lens articles. Thanks to everyone for sending me those links!!! Here is the list:
Olympus E-P3
Olympus E-P3 Hands-On Preview at Photographyblog: “Although we shall reserve final judgment until we can bring you a fully-fledged in-depth review, our initial impressions of the Olympus E-P3 are exceedingly positive. The camera is solidly made, very responsive, extremely fast to focus and has great manual controls (although as noted we missed the dedicated ISO and WB buttons).”
Short E-P3 review at Wired: “bottom line on the PEN 3 is it’s a real shooter’s camera, not just a designer’s desktop paperweight. It’s an easy-to-use, fast focuser and shooter that’s got a steamer trunk full of fun, functional features, lenses and accessories.”
Olympus E-P3 JPG and RAW Photos at Photographyblog.
Olympus Debuts Dazzling New Micro 4/3 Gear (TheOnlinePhotographer).
The E-P3 has been added to the Four Thirds Matching Simulation.
Olympus event in Vienna at Photoscala (german).
Mass of E-P3 image samples on Flickr.
Olympus E-P3 Image Samples at TVsmith.
Olympus E-P3 review by Robert Wong.
Olympus event in Japan at DC.watch.
Olympus 12mm f/2.0 lens
Olympus M.Zuiko Digital 12mm f/2.0 Sample Photos at ePhotozine: “the image quality and sharpness of this lens is very good, with excellent detail right to the corners, and very little flare“.
Olympus E-PM1
Olympus E-PM1 Hands-On Photos at Photographyblog
Olympus E-PL3
Olmpus E-PL3 Hands-On Photos at Photographyblog.
Olympus PEN Lite E-PL3 Hands On Preview at ePhotozine.
Olympus new flash unit
Olympus PEN flash unit at Letsgodigital. Olympus PEN E-P3 accessories at Letsgodigital.
Olympus new camera grips and accessories
Olympus PEN E-P3 camera grip at Letsgodigital.
The new Olympus PT-EP05L underwater case for the E-PL3 (Olympus Japan).
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Olympus 45mm f/1.8 preorders at Amazon US, Adorama, B&H.
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Camaman
11 months ago |Good articles!
Any info of the new external EVF?
What will it be high end or low end gimmick.
TBS
11 months ago |Hmm … http://www.photographyblog.com/previews/olympus_ep3_photos/
photos from Die Spanische Hofreitschule. Photographing during the show is forbidden as it disturbs the horses and the crew.
ijack
11 months ago |Interesting grips
Andyoz
11 months ago |Thanks for the link. I just had a play on the four thirds matching sim website looking at the new E-P3. Its always fun. I cant decide on a silver or black E-P3. The silver looks a bit too silver – the old E-P1 had a black panel on the back with IMHO looked a bit better. I think I am leaning toward black but I dont know if Olympus will ever offer the 12mm and 45mm lenses in black.
Mr. Reeee
11 months ago |The silver/metal body is extremely nice and actually quite beautiful!
The black has those hideously tacky chrome bands. The white isn’t even worth mentioning! It’s amazing how a simple color difference changes the same body completely.
I didn’t realize the EP3 doesn’t have dedicated ISO and WB buttons! That’s awful. WHAT were they thinking? It must have been the same committee that chose white.
Andyoz
11 months ago |Good point about the silver. I agree that the white isnt a great choice. The chrome bands on the black model dont offend me as much as they do you! Each to their own. I just wondered whether the black would look more understated. I probably need to see the models to make a choice. Just thinking about it, the silver model would also look fantastic with a black leather covering from one of those aftermarket companies. Then it would look like the original Pen F.
Has anyone out there put a JnK leather skin on their E-P1 or E-P2? How did they look? Are they able to be removed easily?
Ulli
11 months ago |I use the Jnk type 2 black leather on my E-P2, my prev E-P1 had it also, and imo both look and feel great in it, though keep in mind the leather is quite thick, which can be both good and bad(bad because its not flush with the edges on the body)the 3M film under the leather is strong, but if you’re carefull you can remove the skin without problems, see their website instruction videos.
Andyoz
11 months ago |Thanks Ulli.
Appreciate the info. Thats great to know. I think i might go for a silver E-P3 and put the black leather on it. I was just looking on ebay and I cant seem to find them selling anything but some E-PL1 skins. Are they still in business or do they have their own website for sales? Once the E-P3 gets released I guess that accessories like this will start to appear.
Ulli
11 months ago |Andyoz,
i got mine from this ebay seller:
http://shop.ebay.nl/evernjoy/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_from=&_ipg=&_trksid=p3686
btw, i think the e-p3 needs a modified version of the current ep-skin they offer!
Andyoz
11 months ago |Thanks Ulli. Yes you are right that the E-P3 will need a modified version. I will wait and see if they produce one.
deniz erdem
11 months ago |black ep2 + Jnk = not a very good idea. it ruined the paint on my ep2. seems like black ep2 is prone to paint damage
Ulli
11 months ago |Deniz, really? thats bad..
Bob B.
11 months ago |Hey now…LOL!
I think the white camera is awesome….just get rid of the HIDEOUS tan grip and put one of the black ones on it. That combo with the silver lenses really has a look….AND…white doesn’t get hot in the sun. Dare to break new boundaries!!!!!
Also…lint and dandruff don’t show up on it!!!!!!!!
I have a white GF-1 from Japan with a red shutter release button. Everywhere I go with that camera it is a show stopper. People love it.
anskar
11 months ago |this site can see the AF speed of E-P3 (chinese)
http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=zh-TW&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&sl=zh-CN&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Funwire.hk%2F2011%2F07%2F01%2Folympus-ep3-preview%2Fheadline%2F&act=url
admin
11 months ago |Thanks! I posted it!
Eric
11 months ago |Did you disable the iPad specific theme? I’m seeing the desktop theme on my iPad today.
Miroslav
11 months ago |Well, after reading tons of previews, reviews and press releases, here are my thoughts on new Oly gear and why I’ll be buying only 12mm lens.
First of all, there are many positives, nice of Olympus to have finally implemented some must have 2011 features, such as AF assist lamp and full HD video. Nice of them to have started with putting touch screens, stereo microphones and interchangeable grips. Faster AF is major breakthrough and ticks one box that was the advantage of DSLRs up to now. ISO 1600 is as good as on NEX – at least to my eyes – from dpreview samples. Two new lenses and two reworked are major news for the system as a whole – many have waited for those. Small flash is nice as well, although specs sheet is unclear and one color is missing (black).
Top and entry level model are logically spec’d and have their space on the market, although it’s unclear why are some things left the same as they’ve been in the previous PENs. Why aren’t fps and flash sync speed raised on E-P3? New sensor and processor surely enable higher. Nice of Oly to continue with the retro line for those who like it – not me – and to finally add flash ( taken from E-PL1/2 ). Touch focus is also great addition. E-PM1 has its place as well – real P&S upgraders’ camera – should show common folk WHY you need to upgrade: good pictures even when the light is not and fast AF in small package. Now price it at 300 EUR / 400 USD and conquer the photo world. And where are size comparisons with NEX and its kit zoom now? Sony has probably asked the websites not to publish them for a while
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My biggest gripe is with camera I pinned my biggest hopes on – E-PL3. Why put a swivel screen as thick as tilt and swivel on it? And how am I supposed to carry this camera with larger lens ( see its photo with new 40-150 )? I’m not holding it by the lens, no thanks. And I’m not going to glue add on grip or buy leather case ( yuck! ). Clip-on flash is a mixed bag – yeah the size is smaller, but you lose hot shoe and it seems to me it can’t bounce. Oh, and sync speed is down to 1/160 from E-PL2′s 1/180. So, buy FL-300R and carry it all the time on camera. Nice, it is GN28 and can bounce, but according to ( incomplete ) specs, its sync speed isn’t any higher ( WTH ? ). So no fill function in compact package yet. And it comes silver only. I know – until black version becomes available as part of “special E-P3 all-black kit”. We’ve seen it before with E-P2 and FL-14…
I feel like GF1 owner – waiting for a “real” successor of my camera. So, I’ll stick with E-PL1 for a little longer, save money for 12mm lens ( can I have it in black, please ? ) and in the meantime buy a new underwater P&S that can be used for those situations E-PL1 ( and its successors ) can’t handle. The one that has that very hard to implement panorama feature.
Tobias W.
11 months ago |I don’t quite understand why you would choose the E-PL3 over the E-P3 in the first place. The E-P3 is geared towards photographers knowing how to work an exposure, the E-PL3 and its predecessors are geared towards fire&forget enthusiasts.
You own an E-PL1 just as I do. You must have realized that the E-PL1 body is inferior to the E-P2 by many many aspects, don’t you? When I bought the E-PL1, I bought it for using my old Minolta lenses in A mode exclusively and the most important exposure setting in this mode can be changed on the attached lens directly. If the E-P1 had the accessory port, I would have chosen that body over the E-PL1.
The next Micro Four Thirds body on my shopping list will not have less direct physical controls than the E-P3. The E-PL3 and E-PM1 are not viable camera bodies in my opinion. I don’t want the same disappointment that I suffered from the E-PL1.
Miroslav
11 months ago |Couple of reasons I don’t like E-P3… The first is the size. Simply too big ( too wide ) for me. E-PL3 is maybe smaller than what I’d like, but with flash and some custom grip, it would be just fine. Second is fixed screen which is not the champion in outside visibility according to many reviews. Besides that, on the inside they are pretty much the same.
So the decision comes down to features vs controls/usability. I’ve never used E-P2, but I’ve learned over the years of using various cameras, mobiles, laptops etc. that you get used to controls on your device as time goes by and that what you didn’t like in the first place becomes natural. Fingers just push the buttons by themselves
. People get used to the way they control their device and are not ready to learn something new. That’s why I don’t trust the “usability” parts of the reviews – the reviewers just don’t spend enough time with the gear they test. Yes, I’d like one or two wheels on my E-PL1, but I’ll try to reconfigure the zoom buttons to change some settings, since I don’t use MF. And wait for Olympus m4/3 version of Panasonic G3 or L1 …
BTW, I don’t have any MF lenses and I don’t plan to get any ( except CV 25mm F0.95 maybe ) until Olympus puts in their cameras some kind of visual or audio focus confirmation for MF.
One more thing I really don’t like about E-P1/2/3 is the design. I’m really not into retro tech.
slantyyz
11 months ago |I would say that the problem with the Oly Pen E-x designs is that they’re either not retro enough or not modern enough. It’s as though they were designed by a committee – “Let’s go with the best of both worlds”. Meh.
In my mind, they should have gone 100% retro a la X100 or 100% non-retro a la GF1.
deniz erdem
11 months ago |i dont think there is any problem with the pen design
occam
11 months ago |You forgot one other item… no orientation sensor (except on E-P3). Shameful on any modern digicam regardless of price point.
FlamingJune1967
11 months ago |You are absolutely right! As soon as I saw that the E-PL3 had no OS, it was an no-go. I know a lot of people consider it a minor quibble, but it is something that would continue to aggravate me long after the newness of a fancy new camera had worn off! In this day – when even my daughter’s $75 point and shoot that I purchased this week has an Orientation Sensor, it is totally unacceptable for a system camera – entry level or not – to exclude this very basic function. But, then again, Olympus has a habit of holding out, so that they can add an element that should have been there to begin with and call it an upgrade. sad
walken
11 months ago |Ha, I was waiting for a thread for people to compare their thoughts on the new models.
Here are mine – I bought an E-PL2 ~6 weeks ago, so this is what I’m comparing them against.
First, while the ultrafast AF is technologically impressive, it seems to me the largest practical improvements comes from lower-tech feature additions: namely, the AF assist light (for indoor conditions) and the touch screen (on previous models, the controls to select a focus point are not very quick to use, so one ends up ignoring them and doing focus-and-recompose, which is both slightly imprecise as it rotates the focus plane, and not stealth for street photography purposes).
The E-PL3 and E-PM1 models are too much geared towards point & shoot usage for my taste: tiny controls, no grip, … Personally I don’t care THAT much for miniaturization at the cost of usability. The E-PL2 provided most of what I want at a cheap entry price; it is sad to see that the current line-up only provides that in the higher cost end of the line.
The tilt screen would seem nice-to-have but the the 16:9 aspect ratio kinda ruins it IMO – way too much empty space on the sides when shooting in the sensor’s native 4:3 format…
Comparing E-P3 against my E-PL2, the features I envy the most are those related to faster shooting: thumb dial & extra function button, AF assist light (these two arguably SHOULD have been added onto E-PL2, but oh well…), touch screen, reduced black period after taking a picture. Next comes the sensor improvements with ultrafast AF, improved colors and DR – but, while more is always better, I am actually not unhappy with my E-PL2 performance on these points. Finally, the E-P3 offers a more rugged metal construction, which I understand matters a lot for some people.
Overall, that’s a lot of improvements for E-P3 over the E-PL2, but not enough to justify the high price difference IMO. I guess my dream version of a camera for people like me would be an updated E-PL2 with AF assist light, touch screen and the new sensor for a modest (<$100) price bump. However, I can see how the lack of differentiation with higher end E-P3 model would make that a tough sell for Olympus.
Miroslav
11 months ago |“my dream version of a camera would be an updated E-PL2 with AF assist light, touch screen and the new sensor for a modest (<$100) price bump."
Exactly what I hoped for + articulated screen, but I guess E-PL2 and E-PM1 weren't targeted towards us current users, but were made with new ones in mind.
As for 16:9 LCD – I like it, because I shoot mostly at 16:9 when in landscape mode. Hope they'll keep that.
Peppone
11 months ago |At the end of preview you can find a comparsion whit sony nex c3
http://www.imaging-resource.com/PRODS/EPL3/EPL3A.HTM
Pablo
11 months ago |From the comparison, I like the C3 much more than EPL3. It has better, more hi-res, thinner swiwelling LCD, bigger sensor, faster and more convenient to use lens… as you don’t have to twist and turn it before shooting like the Oly lens. 18mm on the wide end gives you also more depth and perspective than 14mm with the same effective FOV of 28mm in FF equivalency.
Besides that, I find the clip-on flash on the EPL3 ugly and too much protruding outside off the camera shape.
And… regarding the samples here:
http://www.photographyblog.com/previews/olympus_ep3_photos/
NO WAY, that my apsc would give me so much noise at 2000 ISO in such a well lit room.
And, ergonomically, I guess a sane person would like the EPL2 much more, as it has a reasonable grip compared to the flat EPL3.
Don’t you think the same?
Tobias W.
11 months ago |Well, your fixation on sensor size hasn’t gone away. No surprise there.
From the samples I’ve seen on DPreview so far, I don’t think the APS-C sensors have a substantial advantage over Four Thirds up to ISO 1600. And given my photographic habits, I don’t use ISO 1600 in 99.9% of the times, so there’s no value to an APS-C sensor to me if 99.9% of the times I shoot ISO 200 to ISO 400 which looks the same or better on Four Thirds to me.
Also, looking at the images of the C3, what puts me off most is the size of that lens. Look how much bigger and how much more clumsy that combination is! Granted, the C3 has a grip, but it probably needs it as that body/lens combination won’t work at all without a grip in the first place.
An absolute no-go is the lack of any option to attach an EVF to the C3. Unless I’m mistaken, judging by the images of the C3 body, I don’t see any way to attach a viewfinder. Given the C3 must be more difficult to hand-hold as the lens adds more weight to the front of the combination, I don’t think stable shots are as easy as using a PEN with the VF-2 attached.
Other than that I basically reject both the E-PL3 and the C3 on terms of lack of ANY basic direct exposure control interfaces. When I bought the E-PL1 that was a major mistake, I should have gone with the E-P2 back then. I won’t even consider the E-PM1 or E-PL3, both are not serious cameras. I like the E-P3 though.
Eric
11 months ago |+1 on what Tobias said. There is no doubt Sony makes an amazing sensor, but that’s all they have going for the NEX system. They only have 3 lenses and none are worth buying (perhaps that will change with the Zeiss 24mm). They have no direct way to control off camera flash. I had to rig up a trigger using some tape and an IR sensor with my NEX-3, and it only worked 1/2 the time. That screw-on acc port is a PITA to use. Why couldn’t they just have made it snap on like Olympis did? Finally, of course there are no view finders to use.
Long story short, I can’t even begin to consider anoer NEX camera until Sony has built a legitimate system. I estimate it will take them at least 2 years to get to the point where m4/3′s is today. Perhaps at that point I will consider buying into the NEX system again.
elflord
11 months ago |> Other than that I basically reject both the E-PL3 and the C3 on terms of lack of ANY basic direct exposure control interfaces.
Could you elaborate on this ? The EPL3 has aperture priority mode, shutter priority and manual modes for example, right ? Is the complaint that it lacks the wheel that is on the EP3 ?
What makes a camera “serious” ? Granted the E-PM1 is not going to convince DSLR or GH2 users to switch, but given its size it makes more sense to compare it with higher end point and shoot compacts like the Canon S95, Panasonic LX5, Olympus XZ1 etc.
slantyyz
11 months ago |In my opinion, the thing that makes the camera “serious” is the living apparatus that is holding it.
omox
11 months ago |ha ha! This is one of the best comments I have seen so far!
Miroslav
11 months ago |Missed that. What I’d like to see more is Olympus E-PM1 vs Sony NEX-C3 size comparison. Smallest vs smallest. It would be interesting to see GF3 in there as well.
Andyoz
11 months ago |That auto focus speed in the video is very impressive. Certainly fast enough for me and most users I would imagine. Well done Olympus.
cocute
11 months ago |i think AF in video is a little brusque.
Panasonic video is light years away.
zigi_S
11 months ago |Waiting to see the ZD lenses autofocus on the new pens. The old m4/3 lenses in particular the 17mm pancake doesn’t look like it’s faster than with the older pens. Guess the fast autofocus works only with new lenses.
Myst
11 months ago |is it just me or does that e-pm1 look quite good, very minimalistic and stylish design it should be very inconspicuous for street photography, just hoping the ISO and the scene selection won’t be to well hidden in menus.
Mr. Reeee
11 months ago |The EPL3 is almost exactly the same size as the EPM1. Only 3.3mm (3/16″) thicker for the pivot screen, width and height are exactly the same. The pivot would make it for me.
I’ll be curious to compare the EPL3 to the GF3. In person.
taran
11 months ago |Um, why does Olympus insist on giving complete morons who have no idea how to use the camera the first shot at a review (Photography review)? Via the youtube links we have extremely unattractive men who have messed up the video (admittedly) and who are using a flash diffuser outdoors! Does anyone at Olympus realize these guys couldn’t shoot their way out of a paper bag?
Give me a pre production E-P3 and I would shoot Brazilian bikini runway shows in Miami the right way, not some guy talking about a rock. I could effectively double Olympus market share overnight. Grrr…
Danonino
11 months ago |Could not agree more with you. Thumbs up. But I guess that would show the flaws of the “4 years behind” sensor..
Michael
11 months ago |I laughed out loud at this. Regardless of the content, the way you put it was just too funny
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Ben Y
11 months ago |Agreed, they have a habit of choosing the wrong people. Not all of them, mind.
Danonino
11 months ago |For god sake, Im so tired of these review sites.. Its apparent that they expose manually after carefully reading the light. Then always shoot with the sun from the back.. Any simple camera can handles that kind of situation. Please Photographyblog and every other review site, shoot “straight into the sun”-situations so we can see how cameras handle
highlights/colours in near blown out/ blown out areas . Thats all that matters with digital cameras.. We dont need to see all the simple light situations, because all cameras can handle those!
TBS
11 months ago |I agree …
Mr. Reeee
11 months ago |+10 Exactly. Just put the thing in iAuto and walk away.
It’s like auditioning hi-fi gear. I never bring excellently recorded music (okay, maybe a couple), but ones that aren’t so good, like 90% of recordings. A better system will show how it well handles the less than ideal situations.
Harold GLIT
11 months ago |This 8 minute video shows once again that Not anything is worth posting. To call this a review is pure non sense. That John guy belongs on a harley not in a photo review. he is clearly reading spec sheets and does not know what he is talking about
Of course the best quote is when he said that : because of that brand new sensor, the AF is much faster
Laughable
H
Frederick Hew
11 months ago |Well, it would seem to me you are being critical mostly because the you don’t appreciate the presenter’s taste in cloths, hair or tattoos.
As for autofocus, in contrast detect systems performance relies on being able to acquire data from the sensor as fast as possible – which is exactly what Olympus were trying to do with the modified 12.3 MP sensor.
With all due respect, did it ever occur to you that it is YOU that do no know what you are talking about?
Respectfully,
F. Hew.
Mr. Reeee
11 months ago |F. Hew? C’mon, is that your real name?
By any chance, do you know my old pal Fah Cue.
(sorry, couldn’t resist)
Harold GLIT
11 months ago |Frederick
I don ‘t care how a person dress or looks to make a presentation. I am just saying that there is NO proof that it is a brand new sensor . More likely it is a tweaked one . and if you listen to the sentence I am referring to , you would understand my point
Harold
SteveD
11 months ago |I hope they make that little titling flash that comes with the E-PL3 and the E-PM3 available separately. I rarely use flash, but a tiny bounceable flash would be very handy for the E-P2.
Zaph
11 months ago |That auto-focus speed is solid. Be interesting to see some low light examples, but that video is damn impressive – especially seeing they’ve also reduced the after-shot blackout time. The combination of both of those things should make a big difference to the shot-to-shot times of the E-P’s.
Beomagi
11 months ago |Noise from raw at high iso is still present but soooo much easier to deal with!!!
My workflow doesn’t really change either.
-Open image in UFRAW, adjust color and exposure, export to 100% jpg
-open jpg in noiseware and gimp
-apply weak noise filter on image, copy and paste as layer in gimp
-gimp image is now 2 layers, NR’d layer on top, original on bottom
-add inverse grayscale layer mask on top image – this will apply noise reduction in dark areas that need it, and less/none in brighter areas that don’t.
-Merge down, save final jpg.
The RAWs there clean up rather nicely. I’m not impressed by the jpg noise reduction, but any in-camera processing will usually lack compared to constantly developing 3rd party tools.
Agent00soul
11 months ago |Uhh..ohh.. Imagine doing all that on hundreds of images after coming home from a shoot…
cbr09
11 months ago |It presumably helps with the jpgs to turn the NR down or off. Looks as if turning the color to muted may also help – the saturation is nice for some things but does also amplify the chroma noise. With the E-n cameras they used to keep these default settings more conservative and Oly might have given a better impression on test sites if they had done this with the E-P3 too. The more punchy settings make more sense in the E-PL3 and E-PM1. However as long as by tweaking these settings, or using Raw you can get good results at higher iso it does not really matter.
tmrgrs
11 months ago |I’m still hoping to see some 45/1.8 sample galleries. I’ve pre-ordered it but want to know for sure that it’s what I want.
The other thing that still bothers me is no official word on pricing for the E-PL3.
My tentative plan right now is to eventually get the PEN-pro along with the E-PL3 as a 2nd body. At that time, I’ll probably give my E-P2 along with a kit zoom to my daughter who is an art sculpture student who likes photography but can’t afford to buy anything.
Agrivar
11 months ago |Admin
Not sure if anyone else has posted this. Saw this on Clubsnap. Someone in Hong Kong tested the E-p3 with the 4/3 12-60. You can judge the AF speed increase vs ep2/epl2/GH2/G2 from this video !! Very nice!
http://youtu.be/JR6dP7fQXRI
Philip
11 months ago |Strange. The Dpreview samples don’t look that good. Esp in the comparison the E-P3 look really bad compared to G3 and the rest. But the RAW-files linked look good. A lot better than my Gf1. The iso 3200 shots are quite nice even without noise-red, and efter nr clean as iso 800 on the old sensor. But there’s some more noise at iso 200 from what I can see. And all raws I looked at were underexposed (using raw-profile from old sensor). Are they underexposing half a stop and pulling? Anyone else looked at the samples?
Milos Janata
11 months ago |I must say that video from Ep3 is awful, woobling is worse than from a phone.
Despite having only 12 mpx noise over ISO 800 is also disappointment.
I would expect more for it’s price.
tmrgrs
11 months ago |Olympus makes still photography cameras with video only as an afterthought. Which is one of the traits of Olympus cameras that I like. Wannabe cinematographers can always buy from Panasonic or Sony.
Milos Janata
11 months ago |This time it looks like they forgot about photographers too:]
Yes, I have to rather look at Pana and Somy or Samsung (lol did I say Samsung? )
frosti7
11 months ago |cld u tell me how is it a Disadvantage for GH1/2 having a great video mode as well?
Perhaps the “multi-aspect” sensor is panasonic’s biggest flaw for vs a true olympus photographer oriented cameras?
Mr. Reeee
11 months ago |Oh yeah, the GH2′s multi-aspect sensor just kills me every time I use a different aspect ratio. There are so many crappy thing about the GH2, It makes me want to dump all my M4/3 stuff and dig out my Nikon FM2 and Pentax Spotmatic SPII. I even have a few rolls of Tri-X and some Kodachrome 64 and 200 kicking around. It’s just a minor detail that It can’t be processed anymore.
Danonino
11 months ago |Yes, Im disapointed to. This was NOT worth waiting for. Now Im hoping for Samsung to make two killers with the NX20 and NX200.
frosti7
11 months ago |with tears in my eyes, i have sold my 3000$ worth M43 gear…
the gh1 was the best camera i’ve owned except for image quality, i just didnt like what i saw
Anyway, i have high hopes for samsung, but sensor-wise i dont belive they can beat sony,
my biggest hope is actually Pentax would enter the CSC market, imagine class-leading Pancake lens+Class leading sony Sensel+Pentax IBIS
Damn Pentax/ricoh, you are sitting on a goldmine! wake up and build my dream camera!
Mr. Reeee
11 months ago |That seems a bit extreme frosti. Couldn’t you at least have waited a few months for the Pro Panasonic and GH3 to be announced?
Then wait until Mardi Gras to get one…
frosti7
11 months ago |Perhaps it is, only time will tell if it was right or wrong thing to do, in the meantime i’m going to use my dad’s 30 year old all manual zenit slr, i need to learn to slow things down – my digital photography has become “shoot away and delete after” unfortunately thats not a good recipe for good photographs, i felt like going back to the basics
Mr. Reeee
11 months ago |Shoot with manual lenses. Or in M mode.
I hardly ever use my native M4/3 lenses any more, except for the 7-14mm. The rest are Nikon, Pentax and Voigtländer.
frosti7
11 months ago |Admin, to your, or whoever made this fake GF3 picture’s credit, it needs to be stated that the fake GF3 looks almost EXACTLY like the real camera..kodus to that
http://www.43rumors.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/tz_gf3.jpg
admin
11 months ago |test
Tripp
11 months ago |WOW !!! The focus speed is unbelievable, I bet it will be a surprise for many big gun owners. It certainly made me think getting into m43…
maitani
11 months ago |admin, what happened to the iso 100 in the E-P3? the official websites cites an official 200-12800 sensitivity, i find the lack of iso 100 bothersome with bright lenses in daylight.
or is ther a manual way to ‘unlock’ it?