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Olympus-E-PL1 BLK Body with 14-42mm & 40-150mm MFT Lenses-Two Lens Kit
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #737 in Camera & Photo
- Color: black
- Brand: Olympus
- Model: S-010497
- Dimensions: 3.35 pounds
Features
- Includes 14-42mm Micro Four Thirds Lens & 14-150mm Wide-Angle/Telephoto Zoom Lens
- Live View on 2.7" LCD Display - Live Guide Image Manipulation
- 12.3 Megapixels - 19 Automatic Scene-Select Modes
- HD Movies (720p) - 6 In-Camera Art Filters
- 3 In-Body Image Stabilization Modes
Customer Reviews
Most helpful customer reviews23 of 24 people found the following review helpful.
Excellent compact camera at great price By B. Stenman
All compact point and shoot cameras have tiny sensor about the size of a fingernail on the pinkie finger and then the manufacturers cram a large number of pixels onto the sensor so each photosite is too small to be effective at capturing light. This results in pictures that seldom look great at 8x10 and picture taking at ISO 400 or lower. Add in slow lenses and these are good only for snapshots and 4x6 pictures. Enter the new Micro Four Thirds camera format that has a sensor that is 6 times the size of the compact P&S cameras and with a more conservative 10-12 megapixels in total and able to produce good looking 11x14 prints from pictures taken at ISO 1600.
This is still a small and lightweight camera. The camera with its 14-42mm lens attached and battery inserted weighs only 17 ounces. My DSLR zoom lenses alone weigh more than that, and some more than twice as much. The camera is unusual in that it not only has an internal flash and a hot shoe for a standard flash it will also wirelessly control an off camera flash which can be either one of the expensive Olympus strobes or the excellent Metz 50 AF-1 strobe that costs half as much at $199. The upper end Nikon cameras have this feature but it is unusual to find it on a small camera such as this.
Lens quality is good though they are slow. f5.6 at most focal length settings which is why the high ISO capabilities are so valuable. The camera has internal optical stabilization that is not very good. Optically stabilized lenses are at least 3 times as effective. This is compounded by the lack of a viewfinder. Having to hold the camera away from your face to frame a picture increases camera motion a good deal. I took a series of shots at 1/160th with this camera, a D300, and a D3, and the lenses on the Nikon cameras were not optically stabilized but still the Nikon shots were a great deal sharper. Bracing the camera against something, a tree, wall, rock, or using a tripod would help.
In spite of the camera's shortcomings it is a very big improvement over the very best compact point and shoot cameras available. The larger sensor is the critical factor. For 50% more cash the Sony NEX cameras provide a still bigger sensor and faster lenses but the advantage in size is not nearly as great as with the MFT micro four thirds cameras. For anyone seriously into photography and less concerned about weight on of the entry level DSLR's from Nikon or Canon are a better long term investment.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
Awesome Camera By T. Gerving
I am no photographer, so I wanted a "real" camera that would be easy to use. This is it! It has so many great features. The art filters are really cool and the on screen controls in the iAuto setting make things so simple. I also bought the Olympus Pen EL-1 for Dummies so that I can learn about all of the features of the camera. I have only had it for a week, but so far I could not be happier. The quality of the pictures is incredible. I am going to be learning about some of the manual options so that I can do some of the settings on my own. The large lens that comes with this kit is incredible. I don't think that I will be using the smaller one very much.
If you don't know much about cameras, but want to upgrade to a camera that gives you the option to go manual, this is the one. You can go from fully auto to fully manual and everywhere in between.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Best value I found on this item By Shahidur Rahman
I researched extensively before I bought this item. This definitely was the best value I found. This is an addition to my Olympus E seris DSLR. I was looking for a compact DSLR than the bulky DSLR's and I wasn't disappointed.
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