Olympus E-PM2: Small Camera, Big Surprise

amalric wrote:

Bhima78 wrote:

Blowing up the image by 2x magnification, and interpolating the pixels to get a 16MP image. Not a great idea, but if you need the extra reach it could be worth it.

Shabby in your mind. That is what people do with m4/3 when selling to Stock agencies, and it works quite well.

No need for zooms, with their own limitations.

Even though I have an EP3 with it's lowly 12mp sensor (which works well in good light nonetheless) I find the 2X magnification pretty impressive on it. I've used/tried some fractal interpolation (or whatever it does) in Photoshop, and the Oly seems to do pretty well in comparison. Considering it doesn't have Gigabytes of memory to work with. Yeah sometimes at 100% some/a few artifacts are there, but for the most part people aren't looking at photos with a magnifying glass in the "real" world. It's great to me, to walk around with a small camera, a small prime lens...and yet have the capability to use double the focal length in a pinch. This photo was taken with it, at quite an extreme distance and think it attests to both the 2x zoom and the quality of the cheap 40-150 'R' lens. Regarding the lens, I really don't think there's any more "bang for the buck" in the world of cameras, although I shoot more with primes...

I wouldn't be afraid to print this "fairly" large, since with larger prints most people aren't viewing them from inches away, except on DPR.