Comments on: Olympus E-P1, a Really Nice Surprise: The Review

By: tenshi

tenshi — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 14:03:39 +0000

Nice review. I hope you get your hands on an Panasonic GF1 soon and see what your thoughts are between those two nice almost pocketable cams

By: Daimaou

Daimaou — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 12:50:58 +0000

Oh I see for the AF… actually with the Olympus lenses, the AF is slower than with the 14-140m from Panasonic, so yep maybe a bit lazy but not that much. Also the Olympus Lenses are not made for video they are VERY noisy and you will recoard this noise each time the camera is focusing on something.

By: Gobalino

Gobalino — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 10:38:02 +0000

@Daimaou: Cool! Ok, other review said the AF would search a bit, and for the LCD - yes, it was for viewing in sunlight - since there's no flash, and performance isn't so good in the high ISO, its a camera designed for lots of light, but hard to see the LCD in sunlight... maybe its being picky, but an interesting point @Alkit: So I've read, yes! One of the big draws of the camera is being able to use other lenses, but apparently you lose AutoFocus and the images aren't really any better from the old lenses.

By: Alkit

Alkit — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 09:47:38 +0000

Any idea whether it can use Leica M lens with proper adapter? Looking for a compact size camera which can use Leica M. (Dun feel like to afford a M8 or R-D1)

Wish this can be direct compare with GF1 or GH1 for ISO performance.

By: Daimaou

Daimaou — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 09:27:07 +0000

No Engrish here since there are no Japanese but thanks for correction... As far as the LCD is concerned I really don't have anything to say about it, maybe in direct sunlight you may struggle a bit with it but otherwise it does what it is suppose to do quite well. Same thing for the Auto-focus... It does its job pretty well. Not sure what are the complains here on these 2 aspect of the camera.

By: Gobalino

Gobalino — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 08:49:16 +0000

There’s a bit of Engrish in this review. Please take it as constructive criticism.

The metal is ‘stainless steel’.
You are used to ‘playing’, not ‘plain’.
You don’t ‘found’ something, you ‘find’ it.

On to the review, can you comment on the autofocus and the LCD? I’ve read elsewhere that both are quite poor?