PEN E-PL6 Pancake kit lens

pfettig77 wrote:

Hate to hijack my own thread, but...is that true (about the IBIS) on all the Olympus PEN's below the 7? Because I really want to use my old film OM lens and that was the whole reason for looking at the olympus mirrorless.

Regardless of the IBIS implementation, you can use any of your OM film lenses on any Oly or Panasonic MFT (micro four thirds) camera, with the proper adapter.  Lens focus and iris will be manual, of course.  The inherent characteristic of interchangeable lens mirror-less systems is adaptability of legacy 35 mm film lenses to the camera body.  Sensor size will determine the crop factor.  With MFT 2.0x crop, you are always using the center of the lens, so that is kind of good...so a 50 mm lens will give you a 100mm lens angle of view (35mm equivalent angle of view).

PEN IBIS systems have had their fair share of criticism, but you can always turn it off if it presents issues at certain shutter speeds.  For the newer cams, Olympus has tried to remedy the situation with firmware updates.  The EPL6 is really a warmed over EPL5, which is why, I think, one of your respondents said to use the newest EPL7.  Since they are getting so cheap, look into the Panasonic GX7, which also has a rudimentary 2 axis IBIS.  I think that it is a fabulous camera, especially because it also gives you an EVF and very nice touch implementation, plus wifi and NFC.