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A Mini Review

Started Jul 17, 2013 | User reviews thread
OP jackkurtz Veteran Member • Posts: 4,724
Re: A Mini Review

Valid question. It is a little bulkier (and more expensive) than the OMD. I chose it over the OMD for a couple of reasons:

1) the built in wifi, which so far I've only used messing around in my apartment.

2) the VF4 is by all accounts better than the EVF in the OMD. When I go out with just the body and 20mm Panny, I pull the EVF and pop on a VF1 I got for really cheap.

Placing the Pen and GX1 side by side with their EVFs on and they appear to be about the same size, but the Pen has a little more volume and takes up more space in the bag.

toxinoz wrote:

Thank you this interesting mini-review, which I found helpful. However, if you nearly always use the camera with an evf attached, why not just get the OMD? Is it the lower ISO & higher shutter speed of the EP5? I would expect the EP5 with evf attached to be bulkier than the OMD, if it is anything like the GX1 (which I have and like).

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