http://dpinterface.com/site-news/olympus-ep2-micro-thirds-camera-official/ Digital camera reviews, photography news and more. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:40:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://dpinterface.com/site-news/olympus-ep2-micro-thirds-camera-official/comment-page-1/#comment-1473 Gary T. Alcares Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:46:15 +0000 http://dpinterface.com/?p=1326#comment-1473 I bought the EP-1 and it had two major short-comings: EVF or OVF and an internal pop-up flash. The EP-2 addresses the former and should have the DNA of a compact, that is a pop-up flash ! Olympus needs to move the mode dial from the left-side to right-side and put that pop-up flash. I will give Olympus credit, that EVF is state of art feature in the EP-2. I do plan to purchase the EP-2 next year but for now, I just bought the Panasonic GF-1 as my main m43 camera and my EP-1 as back-up. I am hoping Olympus gets it right when the EP-3 comes out in two years from now. I would expect Panasonic to come out with GF-2 within a year or so with a better EVF and 1080p with 24/30/60 fps video capture. For now, Panasonic is ahead in m43 platform but I do love both camera brands. I bought the EP-1 and it had two major short-comings: EVF or OVF and an internal pop-up flash. The EP-2 addresses the former and should have the DNA of a compact, that is a pop-up flash ! Olympus needs to move the mode dial from the left-side to right-side and put that pop-up flash. I will give Olympus credit, that EVF is state of art feature in the EP-2. I do plan to purchase the EP-2 next year but for now, I just bought the Panasonic GF-1 as my main m43 camera and my EP-1 as back-up. I am hoping Olympus gets it right when the EP-3 comes out in two years from now. I would expect Panasonic to come out with GF-2 within a year or so with a better EVF and 1080p with 24/30/60 fps video capture.
For now, Panasonic is ahead in m43 platform but I do love both camera brands.

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