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Some (positive) thoughts about the E-PL7

Started Nov 3, 2014 | Discussions thread
Hen3ry
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That does it, Guy, burn shoe leather to 75 King before your next trip! LOL!

Helen wrote:

Guy Parsons wrote:

Firstly, thank you for an excellent evaluation of the E-PL7, in my view the women on this forum are ten times more sensible than the men, so please stick around.

That's very kind, Guy (your expertise and guidance on Olympus cameras is always incredibly useful and much appreciated). I've been lurking around for years now due to my obsession with Olympus (and other cameras, but Olympus remains my favourite brand) so am unlikely to wander off.

Question: Did the Mode dial improve on the E-PL7? My only long term complaint about the E-PL5 was that the Mode dial is so easy to bump off position due to its very light detent action.

Yes it did! It is much firmer (without being too firm) and doesn't have that slightly disconcerting bounce that the E-PL5 dial does.

Actually, Helen's description suggests a much improved camera -- lots of nice tweaks that take the E-PLx line the next step. Nice to see it now has a level -- I find the level a magic thing in my G6; without it, I almost always shoot 0.7 degrees off horizontal. I kid you not! Actually, when I think about it, that was the consistent error with the E-PL3; with the G6 it has been much less consistent and when I us the level, of course, it is right on correct.

Cheers, geoff

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