Olympus E-PL5 Mirrorless Digital Camera with 14-42mm Lens, Silver

Olympus E-PL5 Mirrorless Digital Camera with 14-42mm Lens, Silver

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• 16MP Live MOS Sensor and TruePicTM VI Image Processor
• Compatible with 17 Olympus M.Zuiko Digital Lenses
• 12 Creative Art Filters and 7 Art Filter Effects
• Full 1080i HD Video with Art Filter Movie and Effects
• 3.0\" Flip Self Portrait Touch LCD Screen
• Touch Live Guide System allows you to preview effects as you adjust them.

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Brand : OLYMPUS
Category : Electronics,Camera & Photo,Digital Cameras,Mirrorless Cameras
Rating : 3.9
Review Count : 128

Olympus E-PL5 Mirrorless Digital Camera with 14-42mm Lens, Silver

• So far I\'m very happy with this camera. It\'s incredibly small, and takes amazing pictures for its size. The kit lens is better than most kit lenses, both in my own experience and according to professional reviews I\'ve read. It\'s much smaller than I expected, but feels substantial. I can\'t believe how light the lens is, in particularly, even though it takes good shots.Alternatives I considered: Sony NEX-5R / NEX-6, Panasonic DMC-G5 / GX1My favorite things about this camera:- Great picture quality: tack sharp, great color, properly exposed, correct white balance, blurred backgrounds- Fast auto-focus, and it usually picks the right focus point- Low light performance. I hate using a flash, so the fact that there\'s not a built-in flash doesn\'t bother me. Pictures taken at ISO1600 and 3200 look great, who needs a flash?- Tiltable, capacitive, responsive touch screen. It\'s so nice to be able to take pictures from above or below.- Touch to focus- compact size and light weight- in-body image stabilization (IBIS), great, though not the fantastic 5-axis version on the E-M5.- Built-in art filters, I especially like the Pinhole and Diorama (tilt-shift) effects- Surprisingly comfortable to hold, despite its diminutive size - good thumb grip, included front hand grip (though it could be meatier)I\'m docking a star for the following reasons:- No in-camera HDR processing. It can do HDR *bracketing*, but then you have to buy software to merge them later (included software Olympus Viewer 2 does not).- Panorama feature is horrible. All it does is lock the exposure setting, and displays two white boxes on the screen to give you an idea approximately how to compose one shot to the next. 10 year old digital P&S cameras I\'ve used do this better, by at least showing you a \"ghost\" of the last image. Also, you again need to post-process to stitch the pictures together (no in-camera processing). At least the included Olympus Viewer 2 application does the stitching.- Monster of a battery charger, with a great long AC cord. I MUCH prefer the more compact Canon chargers that have flip-out AC prongs, so much easier to carry. So far I haven\'t found a good aftermarket alternative - there are some out there, but they are cheap made-in-China junk that I\'m afraid will burn my house down.- Over-priced OEM accessories. Remote cable release: 40 bucks, viewfinder: 180 or 250, wide-angle converter: 100, etc. I hate the japanese camera cartel, they don\'t let sellers set the price they want to charge. There\'s some competition with lenses at least, but not much... their prices are pretty fixed too.My previous camera was a Rebel XT - I don\'t miss it one bit, it\'s a dinosaur by comparison!
• Overall, this camera is pretty good package. I have EPL5 with Zuiko 12mm f2.0 for everyday shooting and Zuiko 45mm f 1.8 sometimes (amazingly sharp lens, best pictures it takes on ELP5).Few thoughts and why i\'m keeping this camera.1) small camera, i can put it in my jacket\'s pocket.2) excellent low light camera. I take a lot of indoor pictures of my family and with 12mm and 45mm, there is no need to flash most of the times + images are great.3) Image stabilization is good. not excellent like OMD-E5 but still better than nothing (my D300). it actually takes very few blurry pictures in low light conditions, mainly due to person in motion rather than your hand shaking.4) Amazing pictures with 45mm f 1.8,. The image quality just sold me. I never got this good sharper and detailed image quality with nikon D300 with 50mm f1.8. I\'m not a pro, I wanted good image quality so opted for DSLR, but this gives you DSLR quality images or better than my D300 in my opinion.5) Very wide and fast focusing with 12mm for videos. i like to take videos too and this camera takes good 1080p video. I do see a bit of pixelization in high motion mov. AVI is just 720p and is much smoother quality but larger file. Overall, I\'m not blown away by video but not disappointed either. I was disappointed with OMD-E5\'s focusing so i returned it for EPL5. I\'m not sure why focusing is slower OMD-E5 otherwise OMD beats EPL5 hands down.6) Has one dial for changing shooting modes. I prefer atleast two to change aperature or shutter speed faster. You can still do it but it\'s a 2 step process in EPL5.7) tough screen to take a snap is useful at times. you can pick the point where you want to focus and take a picture. I found it useful than replying on camera at times.8) battery is great. I took 387 pictures and dozen of movie. Camera still has plenty of battery. Battery charger is old school chord & it sucks but not a big deal.9) Flash attachment is ok, not great. It\'s not too powerful and you cannot bounce. With f2.0 and f 1.8 i haven\'t taken too many pics with flash, since room light is enough. i might buy external flash later on.10) Tilt able screen is good if you wan to bring the camera down to a kid\'s level and bring the screen at 90 degree to take a shots. I use it a lot.11) There are bunch of built in effect. I like some of them but these are personal choice.12) I\'m just taking Jpegs since RAW shows as not supported in Aperature.Overall, I\'m very satisfied with this camera and considering selling my D300.

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