All these cameras are trade offs yeech.
I like the Panny faster focus, but no in body lens stabilisation and cost seems
a fair bit higher.
Aparently the oly firmware upgrade makes the focus speed on the pen at least
competitive.
The 40mm equiv you chose is not wide enough for my climbing preference, which
is 24mm, although a 28mm equiv would be acceptible.
The panny evf option is good, like on the later pens.
I worry under bright conditions that the viewfinder becomes unuseable and that
not holding against forehead when using singlehanded while belaying, will make
for shaky pics. The IS helps a bit, but still.
Tim Hughes
--- On Sun, 4/25/10, Chris Barker <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: Chris Barker <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [OM] Pen EP1 for $549 with kit lens at Costco (Climbing)
To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sunday, April 25, 2010, 4:49 AM
I have a Panny GF-1 and 20mm/1.7. I use a Helios 35m brightline finder in the
flash shoe for when I don't want to use the monitor on the back.
I have to say, Tim, that I am glad that I bought the Panny rather than a PEN; I
have looked at the EP-1 and found it inferior in build as well as monitor
resolution.
Chris
On 25 Apr 2010, at 09:51, Tim Hughes wrote:
> I have been looking for a new climbing camera and was considering a Pen EP1 .
> This was the cheapest offer I could find.
> Anybody here tried using one of these as a climbing camera?
> For climbing it would be better with a brightline finder and a wider lens
> but still seems ok.
> I guess the PL1 with EV finder might be better.
> Maybe I could adapt a brightline 28mm finder from a Leica!
>
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