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Help Me Select: E-PM2 vs E-PL5 vs E-P3

Started Mar 12, 2013 | Discussions thread
Sergey Borachev Veteran Member • Posts: 5,338
Re: Help Me Select: E-PM2 vs E-PL5 vs E-P3

Congratulations, NoTX. I would have chosen the E-PL5 too but I really needed the weatherproofing. And as Guy said, there are a few things that the E-PL5 can do better than the E-M5.

As for the zone focusing thing, I have suggested many times that cameras should include the DOF calculation functionality. The camera is a computer and it has all the data required, the FL, the focused distance, the aperture selected to calculate DOF. All it needs is some DOF calculator algorithm or tables, and it should then be able to display graphically and numerically the available DOF, perhaps showing the things that are sharp on the screen with shimmering edges or colours as well as numbers. It should also be able to let us select hyperfocal distances using a dial (or touching points on a touch screen) to indicate the range of distance where everything must be sharp and then automatically set the focus as well as the aperture to make everything in that range sharp..... .

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