Pictures
The picture quality is top in my eyes, I had hoped WOW experience. No comparison with a smartphone cam or my old compact. I am not happy times offer the RAW files rework the way without compromising quality. HDR offers interesting possibilities but requires additional software.
Videos
Videos I do indeed almost never, but this is a lens with power zoom is recommended that the costs probably about as much as a video camera.
Processing
The case makes an impression of quality as you can expect it for this price, the operating elements act by their small size a little fragile. Some key pressure points could be better. The lens made of plastic at first feels strange, but it slides all buttery soft.
Handling
The PM2 is small and light, almost like a compact. With a pancake lens it also fits in a jacket pocket, with zoom lens I prefer the shoulder. The handles have unfortunately very little maintenance, an ordinary gripping bead as with the NEX models is better here. Size Because the camera has only a few small and Controls for a touchscreen but is still very little involved in the operation. The PM2 you can easily and quickly make photos, simply tap on the screen where the image should be sharp and the image is already in the box, the autofocus is blazing fast and is triggered automatically. Alternatively, you can also set all the parameters manually, but this is more complicated than with a SLR. Between fully automatic and completely Manuel course everything is possible and you can work your way slowly.
Should mean that many functions and little buttons a full menu, less customization and a little more training time be clear to everyone.
Equipment
There are a variety of features and gimmicks for their enumeration I refer to tests. Compactness and expandability, I think, with this camera are the main features. In the pack is all for now, except for the memory card, you need to make beautiful pictures. Will one more (better flash, telephoto lens, lens hood, viewfinder), except a folding screen can get everything. But here also are gone very quickly another 500 or 1,000. If a basic equipment sufficient better.
Conclusion / alternatives
This camera is the entry level model and rather small simple, with a good price / performance ratio. It offers plenty of expansion capabilities in a multi-vendor system. My expectations are pretty well filled with this camera. I have long wondered whether I should give 4 or 5 stars. Weis is already that you continue going with or looking to a compact alternative to the SLR, it lends itself to a better equipped model to choose, for example, a OM-D or Panasonic GX7
