Better than a "real" SLR

The first criticisms:

Okay, the viewfinder image is not quite as big and not quite as fine resolution as an optical reflex viewfinder. Mir's quite enough, even for manual focusing. One can indeed put the viewfinder or the digital zoom as a direct function on a camera button - then you really see everything you need to see, and most importantly: you can see it even in low light with faint zoom lenses. Who needs really resolved even bigger and finer's, can spend twice as much money for the VF-4.

And, clear: as long as the VF-2 on it infected, an e-PM2 is no longer really compact. But for that you can detach the viewfinder yes and stowed separately with very little space requirements. Compact I finally need the camera only when functionless "while having"; the immediate shooting does not bother the sweeping form. Only the - obviously necessary - protective cover for the electrical connection of the viewfinder is fiddly and easy to lose a bit; because you should make at Olympus again a few thoughts drum. The alleged lack of locking the accessory port on the other hand I miss not - on the contrary, the viewfinder is positioned securely, and so I can easily take it off again to pack away.

The folding mechanism for Clean's watching missing a catch for intermediate positions - as he works to easily back. And automatic switching of the display on the viewfinder when construction Have a look would also be nice; but that may also be the more expensive VF-4 with the current, not Olympus mirrorless.

That's it for now with criticism. Theoretically, even a slight delay of the viewfinder view call; but as I have always more the "silent" as the "fast" Photography close, it does not matter for me. For sports photographers like the look different.

You have probably themselves have for decades photographed with optical reflex viewfinders, to really appreciate what this means for a good progress, electronic viewfinder:

While the optical viewfinder with fast lenses - and even then only halfway reasonably light - was sufficient light, it is the VF-2 simply always nice bright and clear, even in dim light even with low-light zoom.

While the optical reflex viewfinder, the depth of field with only a preview button (if present), and then only in a darkened viewfinder - to German: not really - could check, I can play with the VF-2 specifically with manual lenses perfectly with the bezel until I see exactly the desired depth of focus; The viewfinder brightness is automatically adjusted.

And while the optical reflex viewfinder a lot of experience, calculation and a theoretical idea of ​​the desired image was necessary to adjust the exposure the subject, I turn to the VF-2 easy on Belichtungsrad the camera until I like the visual effect of the brightness distribution forth. The electronic viewfinder shows me consistently before triggering the finished picture, how it will look with the current settings - not merely as the reflex viewfinder, the unfiltered and unprocessed at open aperture incoming light through the lens. When I photographed black and white with the reflex viewfinder and a yellow filter touched down, I saw a gänschengelbes viewfinder; the VF-2 shows me, however exactly black and white image with highlighted cloud structures, at issue with the yellow filter. The electronic viewfinder on a mirrorless system camera is compared with conventional SLR at least as monumental advance, as it was at the time the step from the Clear-to reflex viewfinder.

Especially with old manual lenses that can often be bought together with adapter to a ridiculously small price with excellent quality, makes it all incredibly fun: really show those old glasses in the first place with the modern equipment really know what they can do. For production time of this lenses you were so determined mainly on chemical 100 or 200 films; 400 or even 1000 movies were good almost exclusively to special purposes, in severe image quality. With the latest, mirrorless digital cameras I can against untwisting whilst still good image quality up to ISO 3200, and the spontaneously from picture to picture, not only after a film exchange. So today I have a rule almost the entire aperture range of the lens for image design available where previously only a window of two to three aperture values ​​was used in practice.

While all this is true in principle - with restrictions - even for the back camera display. But only an electronic viewfinder as the VF-2 makes these advantages really practical use because the open displays usually have too little resolution for manual focusing, the sunlight can be difficult to see and require Nahbrille with presbyopia. For ambitious photographing you just have to take the camera directly to the eye; the VF-2 to also still be folded and so makes for macro shots many perspectives at all possible, is a nice little bonus; that it saves battery power compared to the big screen, is another pleasant aspect. Last but not least: screwed to a nice flat pancake lens (that's now even as a triple zoom!) On the E-PM2 and decreases the VF-2, then you have a problem-Anoraktaschen-compatible camera, "always with you "for snapshots - but in full DSLR quality! If you want to take pictures of ambitious, the VF-2 from the other anorak or pants pocket you put on it yet. With this viewfinder, the small, mirrorless Olympus will only be really good system cameras. This thing is not cheap, but worth every single penny. Full marks.