Thursday 22 September 2011

My love hate relationship with the Olympus E-P3

Olympus E-P3 12mm f/2
Olympus E-P3 12mm f/2

LOVE

Design.

Looks.

Image Quality.

OLED Screen.

Works really well with the 12mm f/2.

Olympus E-P3 12mm f/2
Olympus E-P3 12mm f/2

Olympus E-P3 12mm f/2
Olympus E-P3 12mm f/2
I saw this and thought of this.

Olympus E-P3 Panasonic Leica 25mm f/1.4
Olympus E-P3 Panasonic Leica 25mm f/1.4

Olympus E-P3 12mm f/2
Olympus E-P3 12mm f/2 - Multi image Panoramic stitch.

Olympus E-P3 12mm f/2
Olympus E-P3 12mm f/2 - Multi image Panoramic stitch

Olympus E-P3 Zeiss 50mm f/2 T* Planar
Olympus E-P3 Zeiss 50mm f/2 T* Planar - Multi image Panoramic stitch

Olympus E-P3 12mm f/2
Olympus E-P3 12mm f/2

HATE

Fiddly and small controls.

Complicated menu system.

Using manual focus lenses is (you've guessed it!) fiddly and complicated.

My Panasonic Leica 25mm f/1.4 "rattles" away incessantly - "aperture dancing" or the "rattlesnake effect".

There seems to be an EVF bug which stops the magnification button working properly. I have two and they both work perfectly on an E-PL1 but not on the E-P3.

Lower thumb wheel works when it feels like it and its really easy to alter other controls next to it.

Touch screen is very erratic. Sometimes works perfectly, sometimes not.

Shutter delay.