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23 mars 2011
EP-2 with viewfinder and 20mm f1.7 Panasonic
7 personnes sur 7 ont jugé cet avis utile. When I bought my E-P1 I thought it would be the perfect take anywhere camera for me, and I reviewed it along those lines. In time the bulk of the kit zoom and the lack of an eye-level viewfinder did become issues, although I did not originally expect they would. It was not composing on the LCD that became an issue, but holding the camera out in front of me to shoot. It's a posture that lacks the stability I'm accustomed to, and getting the wonderfully high resolution VF2 viewfinder with the E-P2 resolved the issue for me. With the Panasonic 20mm f1.7 pancake lens I do now, indeed, have the "take with me all the time" camera I have been looking for.
The picture quality, as I indicated for the E-P1 also, is superb with the kit lens. Put the diminutive Panasonic on the E-P2, and it only gets better. This is one sharp lens, and the f1.7 allows me to shoot a 400 when previously I might have dialed in an iso of 1250. It's delightful. My first Olympus film camera was a 35mm zone focus with a 40mm fixed lens. I always loved the angle of view it provided, and the 50mm, while I became accustomed to it, was always a little longer than what I thought of as a perfect normal lens. 35mm was too wide. So when Panasonic issued the 20mm (equivalent to a 40mm on 35mm film) I knew I wanted it.
With the kit lens and no viewfinder I'd rate the E-P2 4 1/2. Everything about its operation improves for me with the evf eye-level finder. I can change white balance, iso, lock in my exposure, etc. without ever taking my eye away from the viewfiner. It makes shooting ergonomically more economical. Once your thumb gets to know where the various buttons are on the back, it's a cinch just to keep shooting without stopping to look at the camera, keeping one's eye on the prize of the object to be captured.
Like the E-P1 before it, the E-P2 is and feels solid. The metal body is worth the premium paid for it, and with the f 1.7 lens and vf2 viewfinder the E-P2 earns its moniker, "poor mans Leica". This is probably as close as I'll ever get to an M9 -- or even an M8, and while the image quality may not match that of those two cameras with real (made in Germany) Leica glass, it has nothing to apologize for. If pixel peeping at 100% (which represents a print about 48 inches across) is your thing, you may object to noise levels at higher iso settings, but at sizes one is likely to print the images, the noise just is not there. No one in their right mind ever made a 48inch print from a 35mm negative. A twenty to 24 inch print will work quite well with the right post-processing. I keep both noise filter and noise reduction off and deal with noise in raw development if it becomes necessary. There is no way to reduce noise without reducing detail, so it's best not to let the camera do it for you but to make those compromises yourself.
As usual, Olympus's jpegs are stunning. Those shooting jpeg only will not be disappointed. My advice is to turn down in camera sharpening and contrast and make those adjustment yourself in a photo editing program, beside which any in-camera processing is rather crude.
29 oct. 2011
A sweet little package with a perky personality it is hard not to like
4 personnes sur 4 ont jugé cet avis utile. I had my doubts when I decided to acquire the E-PM1 as a second Pen body. Price settled the issue, though; I just could not afford the E-P3 (I have and love the E-P2), though I hoped to take advantage of the faster focusing lens and the new image processing. A short time with the E-PM1 later, and I can honestly say I love this little machine. I'm not a point and shoot photographer, and I was concerned that changing settings that I habitual use would be cumbersome on this camera, but they are not, not really. No, it does not have the direct access to iso, aperture, white balance and a number of other settings that are immediately available on the E-P2, but I have found changing them is fast and easy nonetheless. I typically shoot aperture priority auto with frequent exposure compensation adjustments to get the exposure I'm after; it takes an extra click on this camera as opposed to the E-P2, but it is pretty instinctive after a while. Even shooting fully manual, which I do when using a polarizer or in certain problematic situations, is not a problem. The new kit zoom seems sharper to me than the original 14-42 I had, and I know it is faster on this camera. The image quality, as with all the Pens, is stunning, and the video is very good, though I'm essentially a still photographer. The new lens, though, takes video on a Pen to a whole new level. People have different ideas about noise and high iso shooting. I have shot all the Pens at iso 1250 without thinking twice, and I keep noise reduction off and noise filtration to low. I have little patience for the hysteria about noise in digital photography, and prefer a nicely delineated grain to the mush of over-zealous noise reduction. A fast prime lens makes the issue largely moot.
The camera is very light and small but feels solid and is hard not to like. I'd have rated the features at 5 if the camera had focus DOF preview.
28 mars 2013
Brilliantly conceived with a few operational frustrations
1 personnes sur 1 ont jugé cet avis utile. Brilliant. Only the lack of a built-in neutral density filter is frustrating, as the camera will only shoot up to 1/1000 of sec. at wider apertures (a limitation of the leaf shutter, which, however, allows one to synch flash at higher speeds.) To assure shallow depth of field on bright sunny days an accessory 40-40.5mm step up ring and the best 40.5mm 8x neutral density filter is recommended.
The X20 is the successor to the X10, but while it looks and very largely acts the same as its predecessor, it really is a quite different camera inside, with an entirely new sensor. Fans of the EXR sensor of the X10 may, in fact, prefer it to the x-trans cmos sensor of the X20. While the new model does have a small to moderate advantage in resolution, it renders tonally a bit differently, and its jpeg processing is not nearly as good. Fuji seems to have upped the default noise reduction and sharpening, at default settings giving the "sharpened mush" look that I find disquieting. As I shoot raw, it is not any issue, and the pictures you can get from raw files are phenomenal. Lightroom 4.4 (release candidate) handles the RAF files well.
If I were a jpeg shooter I would reset the noise reduction and sharpening setting to their lowest value and take care of those parameters in post-processing on my computer. Because of the aggressive default jpeg NR and sharpening , the "jpeg only" advanced settings are much less useful to me than they were in the X10, where the Pro low light setting was truly exemplary.
If you make the switch from X10 to X20 you will gain a very useful information display in the optical viewfinder, and if you wear sunglasses, you'll be able to shoot without ever having to take them off, a very nice option here in the desert southwest. You will also gain a small resolution advantage. You will however, in my opinion, lose some of the best jpeg processing any camera in this class has had and will get the best from the camera shooting raw.
With those caveats, I would not hesitate to recommend the X20. The raw files can produce results that rival the results from raw of the older 12 MP m4/3 cameras, but the jpegs do not match those of the first generation of the larger sensor cameras.