I've done it!

After but my E-PL3 was not even particularly old and I am determined to üerspringen the subsequent pen-generation, the new all resistors crept defiance in my life. At first I ignored even brave the fair presentation, but no later than with the publication of the first reviews it had happened to me. Over Christmas I made it yet, but in January ran out of patience and I finally slammed!

So now lives the E-PL5 for a few days with me and what can I say? I regret nothing!
The triggering via touchscreen is worth gold and works great. Especially when playing with the depth setting the autofocus is thus within a fraction of a second and you can save the circuitous route through the viewfinder.
Has also improved blatantly the lowlight ability of the pen. With a high-intensity fixed focal length like the Pana 20mm or the Olympus 45mm is to make trouble usable photos inside freehand, without having to use the flash even on a winter evening. The included flash I still needed not once, although I now exclusively indoor Scan since purchase.

The supplied FlashAir card is fun (once you get fought his way through the somewhat abstruse manual), because I'm not dependent unlike cameras with built-in Wi-Fi on an external network, but on the card installs display a hotspot itself, about you now with all devices can be connected to the camera itself. So I can quickly sift times throughout my shots on the iPad or forwarded by e-mail. At most, a Class10 instead of Class6 would have been desirable.

As a woman I have no problem with the size of the camera. Neither I do not reach certain buttons, yet I find them unwieldy or fiddly. It is stable in the hand, has enough weight to heavier lenses comfortable to wear and is still small enough for most handbags.

Addendum of 14/03/2013:
I'm still very happy with the camera and its quality. But since I have read in the meantime frequently by the supposedly bad Olympus menu, I will gladly something potentially useful for those who contribute, which can be unsettling them with respect to their purchase decision.
The menu is actually partially somewhat illogical, which I think a non-optimal translation is owed. So who is fit in the use of the English language, may be better off with it to make the initial setting in English. One should be careful to unlock the advanced menu, this is in fact turned off by default.
Now the good news: the extended menu, you can set various things and occupy the key free. If you have taken the trouble first, then never have to be there later in normally again muddle through, but has all the parameters set immediately by pressing a button on the case. For example, I have the REC button is assigned the ISO setting, so that I can change these values ​​now almost blind.
Furthermore, the PEN has a quick menu that (outside the iAuto mode ') on the OK button is selected. There you can then scroll through the main parameters on the right edge and change it. Wen it (like me) annoying that this order is set and you will sometimes have to search for long until you find setting XY, who has the ability to change this menu so that instead of the screen display on the display a transparent display various settings is placed in tile form. The individual tiles (eg ISO, sharpness, white balance, memory type, shutter volume etc.pp.) can then be selected and changed via Touch or control pad / wheel. This is very convenient and anything but awkward.
Since then I have this extended display is activated and a few buttons have reconfigured, everything is with max. set two clicks and the ordinary menu Olympus I no longer needed.