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E-P3 is a good upgrade from an E-PL1

Started Feb 25, 2017 | Discussions thread
Guy Parsons
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Re: E-P3 is a good upgrade from an E-PL1
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In my case a couple of E-PL1, then one went seriously weird and not being able to fix it Oly Oz gave me an E-P3 single lens kit. Definitely faster AF and better controls, but basically same image quality as the E-PL1.

As for my story.....

Soon after my ordered E-PL5 arrived and the other two sat idle. The 16MP sensor made results so much better, especially under lower light conditions.

In daylight conditions some like the 12MP sensor better but I don't find that so. Maybe because I mostly use DxO on the raw files now thus avoiding any of the jpeg peculiarities.

Lastly I settled on E-P5 when the price dropped below E-PL5 price briefly and there I'm staying. It does all I want and with style. The E-PL5 does well for when I need something a bit smaller and lighter. To accompany that I bought the Panasonic 12-32mm and use its OIS instead of the rather dodgy 2 axis IBIS of the E-PL5.

As for a minimum body now, I would consider the E-PL7 with its 3 axis IBIS, but as you found, there's bargains in the older ones as long as they are used sensibly.

Thanks for linking to my pages, I've been lazy lately and not spending much time in here as there's plenty of others now to help with questions. I will keep the timeline updated as my minimum effort and occasionally edit and change other pages, but basically nothing new really happens in my pages now.

Regards..... Guy

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