Should You Buy an Olympus E-P1 or Panasonic GF1?
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!
Mathias
4 years ago |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)
Kirilius
4 years ago |” 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.
David T
4 years ago |The IQ of the E-P1 is amazing.