Excellent Camera 2

Excellent Camera 2

Olympus E-System camera P5 incl. 14-42mm lens (16 megapixel MOS sensor, True Pic VI processor, 5-axis image stabilization, shutter speed 1 / 8000s, Full HD) Silver (Electronics)

Customer Review

With the Olympus Pen E-P5 I am extremely pleased. I own them now about 1 1/2 weeks and have made around 150 pictures with it. That is, this is only a first impression. I shoot only in RAW format and can use the recorded images in this format with this camera often without major image enhancement. From the color reproduction, the brilliance and sharpness of the images I'm very impressed. It is in my eyes really a top image quality. (To a - for me unimportant in practice - restriction on that below some more details.)
In the operation have to be incorporated, no question. But since I have been obsessed with the Olympus Pen E-PL1 and E-PL2, that was no problem, because the operation is similar.
The camera makes a very valued and solid impression and is handled properly. The bright folding screen makes for me the viewfinder superfluous, even though I really wanted to buy before a camera with screen viewfinder. Should it succeed in Olympus but the small size of the e-P5 yet to integrate a viewfinder, but this would certainly not bad. Practically, the two command dials and the change-over, which can be configured individually in each case.
Now the caveat:
Because of variously mentioned so-called "Shutter Shock" I have to get it to clarify for me, made a series of test shots. The series is certainly not "scientifically" based and the evaluation carried out "only" visually on a 27 inch screen. (I ask who wants to have counted the lines, the, to gather information on the Internet.) I just wanted to decide whether I can be satisfied in practice with the sharpness.
When I used the kit lens 14-42mm Ojektiv II R. The settings were once AutoISO and even ISO 200 (fixed) recording mode "S", always the same motive and always the same, good lighting conditions. The exposure time I rated down, starting with 1/60 to 1/1000. The images I compared visually. The camera was supported in order to avoid camera shake. Result: Without magnification on the screen / 27 inches the sharpness of all images was such that they were absolutely fine and confident. However, the sharpness from 1/320 was again slightly, but really only slightly better, which was confirmed in the increase in concentrated search. (Whether a practitioner is looking so?) But that's actually "whining at the highest level" and is no reason for me to give the camera back.
The camera is fun, creates incredible images and is the overall impression for me an excellent camera. If the to-find only with a magnifying glass "sharpness issue" be a weakness, as it is one with which I can live well. .... And that, although I am very demanding in terms of image quality and for many years with different cameras / Compact / SLR, Scan.

Addendum on 12/06/2014:

I have now performed the firmware update to version 1.5 and then made about 350 photos.
In a now possible setting "anti-shock" 0 "seconds" was the sharpness of the images for all exposures, even with the earlier allegedly critical times of 1/250 and longer, consistently excellent. (Checks I have in the 1: 1. View on a 27-inch screen is a difference in the individual exposure times, I could not notice.) Recorded I in "RAW format" motives were landscapes, architecture and people.
I can therefore the camera, after about 9 months of work to do still recommend it. She makes great pictures and taking pictures with her is great fun.

Simply Super 116 Rank: 5/5
July 10
Simple and ergonomic. Rank: 5/5
January 14
Little interest 4 Rank: 1/5
September 19
but nice not optimal Rank: 4/5
August 24
Wonderful !! January 1121 Rank: 5/5
January 11

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