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EPM2 or EPL5?

Started May 30, 2014 | Questions thread
pocketpygmy Contributing Member • Posts: 829
Re: EPM2 or EPL5?
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Guy Parsons wrote:

pocketpygmy wrote:

neither. wait for the E-PL7. check out the leaked manual:

http://www.43rumors.com/ft5-olympus-e-pl7-manual-leaked/

Bulkier camera, would not work for me at all. My little bag fits two E-PL5 with lenses, no way it could fit the bigger E-PL7.

as someone else mentioned, both the epm2 and epl5 have 16:9 screens -- one of the most bone-headed design decisions possible. makes for a very small viewing area if you're using a proper aspect ratio like 4:3 or 3:2 or 1:1.

16:9 screen is fine, just shoot RAW+jpeg and the 16:9 jpeg shows you good detail on the LCD, then retrieve whatever you want from the RAW, usually 16:9 anyway as that is the shape of all TV and monitor screens now.Regards... Guy

not sure this is about you. your very particular situation of (a) two m4/3 cameras in one bag (??) precluding you from considering a camera that hasn't even been officially announced and whose overall physical differences from the epl5 will in all likelihood will be negligible anyway, and (b) excusing an obviously bad design decision with an equally unintuitive workaround -- just isn't in the least bit universal or applicable to the general user. really a puzzling response, not sure what the OP is expected to glean from it. sorry.

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