E-pl6 two lens kit $399

Astrotripper wrote:

brownie314 wrote:

This seems to be a very good deal.

Not so sure. Depends where you live, I guess. The 40-150 can be had for $99 in US I believe. And I'm not sure $300 for E-PL6 is anything special. Certainly is not a bad deal.

Why is this camera always being sold so cheap?

Because it's an old generation of Olympus bodies. And one that was initially only sold in Asia as a minor update to E-PL5. That it "leaked" to other regions suggests that maybe Oly overestimated demand and they're trying to clear them out? Or maybe they use it to replace E-PL5 on the store shelves? Who knows. It's their way of having something in the super-cheap tier of the market.

What would be the difference between the e-pl6 and, for example, an e-m5? Is the difference huge?

Yes, it's pretty big. E-PL6 has the older image processor (compared to current generation of Oly cameras, not sure about E-M5 specifically), so it lacks some of the goodies that newer cameras have. It only has the 2 axis IBIS, which is worse than 3-axis of E-M10 and E-PL7, and vastly inferior to the 5-axis of the newest bodies. It does not have a true electronic first curtain, and I'm not even sure if it has 0-sec anti-shock. So shutter shock issues might be more of an issue than on other bodies (heavily depends on the lens, too). All that is on top of the PEN vs OM-D difference.

wasn't there a patch that fixed the 0-sec anti-shock? Its been a whiles since I got the patch so I don't remember. I bought my EPL6 for 300 dollars. the Additional lens is 99 dollars anyways so its not that great of a deal. I mainly bought it to see if I was going to like m4/3. now I want to upgrade