The E-620 is my "always with you" camera. The swivel display also allows ground-portrait photos (create the new OM-Ds and PEN not) and can fold up so that the display can happen anything. Folding also helps in the evening, if you want fast times knipsen unnoticed without a monitor lights reveals.
The Zuikos are unrivaled favorable, compared easily and sufficiently bright.
Only the AF is a bit slow when compared to current models. But somewhere the development must go yes.
Too bad that some of my FT-lenses have not received an update for contrast AF merh.
For me, the E-620 is an almost daily basis with the backpack. Then with kit 14-42mm or 18-180mm.
If I plan anything in particular, it may sometimes even a pro lens be. But then, if necessary, also with battery grip. Even still lighter than most other cars (incl. E-3 and E-5).
Move hands me the Olympus software on the notebook usually made to make the MOST IMPORTANT adjustments.
RAW development happen here in my opinion better than with Adobe.
The 12MP and the image quality of the JPEGs are absolutely sufficient. RAW runs at most, but is not usually necessary. In "normal" ISO range 100-800 is also nothing to complain about. Sorry, but after that is simple flash Time. Without light goes today Farty Photography.
There is now the E-PENs and since one month the E-M1. Actually, exactly what I had hoped for even as E-640. But also priced almost three times as expensive. I had now both in the test ... the difference is of course there, but still it does not seem to me so powerfully that I throw my loyal E-620 together with FT lenses in the bay and on the course with flying colors.
Well, for 200 I could adapt, but ...
..I tell you what. If I manage the E-620 look in frost, heat or moisture to get broken (I take care of them no longer, as in an analogous OM), then just the successor is procured. Whether they then just called E-M1, I do not know. The prices will then probably be more interesting again.
Probably there will be a günstiere E-M10? I'm also now made without reinforcement.
In this compact Olympus will remain interesting for me definitely ... if the price is right.
Who flirt with a used E-620 For those who:
Pay attention to the Aulösungszahl and monitor joint. If necessary, is the battery by (mainly non-OLY) and must be re-procured. Meanwhile, the camera itself is double-Kit an absolute bargains (from 450 to 12 MP camera and 28-300mm KB) and if it continues like this are the remaining FT lenses für'n to have Appel & n'Ei.
So why not just continue an almost new housing for 1/8 of the price of the "grandson" or as a second housing for the E-5 / E-M1?
PS: The E-620 is a camera that wants to be "optimized". This means that the factory settings are subotimal.
Simply lends you from the books by Wolf-Dieter Roth or Reinhard Wagner. The latter is also commercially available. With a few simple adjustments, you can remove a lot and appreciate better with a few colored examples, the usefulness of the usual OLY gimmicks.
