{"id":13524,"date":"2011-04-19T00:13:17","date_gmt":"2011-04-18T16:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/?p=13524"},"modified":"2018-04-03T15:51:05","modified_gmt":"2018-04-03T07:51:05","slug":"olympus-e-pl2-part-3-initial-handling-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2011\/04\/19\/olympus-e-pl2-part-3-initial-handling-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympus E-PL2 – Part 3 – Initial Handling Notes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Continued from the last post<\/a>!<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not easy deciding whether the Olympus E-PL2 is a significant or a minor upgrade from the E-PL1. It doesn\u2019t help that Olympus doesn\u2019t seen to be phasing out the E-PL1 yet at the moment, and letting the two models sit side by side on the same shelf.<\/p>\n

Functionally, they\u2019re pretty similar. In fact, I didn\u2019t even bother with the E-PL2\u2019s Instruction Manual. From the first pick-up at the Funan Center outlet of Alan Photo, I found myself instinctively navigating through the menus to toggling modes and options to make sure the camera was working properly before handing over the money for the camera yesterday morning.<\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s a list of my small notes; ranting off and in no particular order:<\/p>\n

– I went with the Black edition this time, just for a change. And I\u2019m starting to have mixed feelings about the color. Sigh. Should had gone back to the Champagne Gold one, like my old E-PL1.<\/p>\n

– Out-of-camera JPGs remain outstanding. I took a few shots outside at The Rivervale and they look just great. This is one camera I have no problems shooting in JPG.<\/p>\n

– Flash recycling times have improved \u2013 nice!<\/p>\n

– The hotshoe cover slides off easily. I took it off first thing and left it in the box, lest it slips off accidentally when in actual use!<\/p>\n

– The new MSC Mark II kit lens focuses internally, silently, and very briskly (hooray!!!). Even Ling was impressed.=)<\/p>\n

– The new kit lens however uses a different lens diameter. 37mm. Gaaah. What am I gonna do with the 40.5mm filters I bought for the E-PL1 now?<\/p>\n

– On the other hand, the new kit lens feels a little more plasticky. Maybe it\u2019s the color.<\/p>\n

– The 3 inch 460,000 dot rear TFT LCD is gorgeous. Not as pixel-dense as the D300, but definitely an upgrade from the 260,000 dot 2.7 inch LCD on the E-PL1.<\/p>\n

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– The rear four button controller on the E-PL1 has been replaced by a control dial that supposedly offers faster navigation through menu options. I didn\u2019t care much for this though as the control dial itself is still too small to make rotation easy.<\/p>\n

– Whatever happened to the volume control of the focus-beep? It\u2019s on or off now only in the new camera.<\/p>\n

– Rotatable Ring strap eyelets included now as a design improvement over the E-PL1. I actually prefer the rectangular metal ones from the old E-PL1 instead. These new rotatable ones rattle.<\/p>\n

– The UI really looks antiquated. It\u2019s functional yes, but not particularly pleasing aesthetically. Having seen the Sony NEX-5 and Samsung NX100 UIs, the Olympus one looks like it’s from a 2000\u2019s rather than 2011 line of digital cameras. Maybe it\u2019s the font or the color scheme, or both.<\/p>\n

– The E-PL2 feels more robustly made than the E-PL1. It\u2019s still a large plastic construction, but exhibits no flex at its joints.<\/p>\n

In all; I\u2019ll put it somewhere between a significant and a minor upgrade from the E-PL1. The faster focusing is the singularly most important benefit for me, with the larger and higher resolution LCD following next. More and final notes to come after I\u2019ve spent a bit more time using the camera. =)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Continued from the last post! It\u2019s not easy deciding whether the Olympus E-PL2 is a significant or a minor upgrade from the E-PL1. It doesn\u2019t help that Olympus doesn\u2019t seen to be phasing out the E-PL1 yet at the moment,<\/p>\n

Read More Olympus E-PL2 – Part 3 – Initial Handling Notes<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[609,468,508],"class_list":["post-13524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography-cameras","tag-m4-3","tag-e-pl1","tag-e-pl2","wpcat-13-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}