{"id":7628,"date":"2010-02-04T07:30:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2010\/02\/04\/new-m43s\/"},"modified":"2018-04-03T15:58:33","modified_gmt":"2018-04-03T07:58:33","slug":"new-m43s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2010\/02\/04\/new-m43s\/","title":{"rendered":"New m4\/3s!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px 10px; display: inline; border: 0px;\" title=\"blog-e-pl1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/blogepl1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-e-pl1\" width=\"350\" height=\"307\" align=\"right\" \/> The micro four-thirds format sure is picking up steam. I <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2009\/06\/18\/olympus-e-p1\/\">blogged about the E-P1<\/a> last year in June. But as attractive as the size and sensor format of the camera was, I wasn\u2019t tempted. The first iteration of Olympus\u2019 design was problematic: slow AF and no unit flash, and it was pegged at too high an asking price.<\/p>\n<p>So, I was real thrilled to read yesterday that Olympus has just announced a new model using the format: the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.olympusamerica.com\/cpg_section\/product.asp?product=1501\">E-PL1<\/a>, which is less featured and built more cheaply (e.g. plastic mount LOL), will be several hundred dollars cheaper at the same time! Now, that\u2019s really tempting now \u2013 a near-DSLR image quality almost compact-sized camera that\u2019ll cost about SGD840 suggested retail, maybe cheaper at street price.:)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The micro four-thirds format sure is picking up steam. I blogged about the E-P1 last year in June. But as attractive as the size and sensor format of the camera was, I wasn\u2019t tempted. The first iteration of Olympus\u2019 design<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-read-more\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2010\/02\/04\/new-m43s\/\">Read More<span class=\"cleanwp-sr-only\">  New m4\/3s!<\/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],"class_list":["post-7628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography-cameras","tag-m4-3","tag-e-pl1","wpcat-13-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7628","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=7628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}