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EX1/TL500 owners- honest opinion wanted please

Started Aug 30, 2012 | Discussions thread
JW PHOTO Veteran Member • Posts: 3,155
Re: EX1/TL500 owners- honest opinion wanted please

There are a ton of really, really good semi-compacts out there now and picking one (the right one) is not easy. That said, I really like my EX1. In fact I like it so much that I bought another new one and stuck it away just in case. The build quality is of a camera costing much, much more. No plastic feel about this baby! It's a little bigger than my shirt pocket can handle, but with the solid heft I don't think I'd want it in a shirt pocket even if it did fit. It has some quirks in operation and Samsung isn't the best at keep/communication with it's customers on things like firmware upgrades, but those things aside it's a great camera. Oh, did I mention it has one of the best lenses I have ever used on a compact camera? Yup, and the colors it renders are, IMO, a perfect balance. I do wish it had the jpeg engine/processing of the Olympus 4/3 cameras, but the RAW's are near perfect. All that being said, I just bought a Oly E-pl1 for a friend that takes stunning photos and the price was cheaper than I paid for either of my EX1's. Of course the Oly isn't build as good, doesn't have a swivel screen and it's not small either, but you don't have to shoot RAW since the jpeg's are that good. I think its color output is better than anything and it has interchangeable lenses to boot. Oh, and its sensor is much bigger than the one in the EX1. And as the ladies will tell you, BIGGER IS BETTER. If I didn't already have two EX1's I might just look into something like the OLY, but for now I'll suffer happily with the EX1. Just my opinion of course. JohnW

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