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

Guy Parsons wrote:

Humansvillian wrote:

What, in the world, is a digital teleconverter?

Usually means the 2x digital teleconverter common on Oly. It takes the middle 1/4 of pixels (say the middle 4MP of a 16MP sensor) and interpolates that up to the regular full resolution.

A cheap way to get double the focal length if only need it for screen display or small prints.

Do I want to "Keep Warm Colors"?

It was designed to keep that warm look under incandescent lamps, but generally seems to make everything too warm, Best set to off.

Maybe I need to learn to shoot RAW so I won't be such a newbie, too.

Have no fear of shooting raw+jpeg and storing the raw files for some later time when you have the time and patience and knowledge to play with them. Budget for the extra storage capacity needed, and extra backup storage as well.

And it's nice to have a real, working movie camera that really does autofocus when you use it.

This P3 ought to keep me busy awhile, before I try to upgrade.

Play with that for as long as you can and see if it limits you in any way. Meanwhile more options will appear and prices keep falling on older gear.

Regards..... Guy

Thanks for the advice, Guy.

My new computer has a terabyte storage capacity, and I bought another external hard drive with a full terabyte backup.  And, I discovered Shutterfly, and I think my legacy photo storage problems are solved, for the minute.

The next time I shoot something other than defenseless courthouses and public landmarks I think I'll try RAW+JEPG Normal. Maybe tomorrow at the skeet shoot I'll give RAW another try.  Then, sooner or later.  I'll want to upgrade the software from the free Olympus stuff to something better, and that might be even more fun.

One thing is certain.  The only reason I liked the PL-1 so much was that I never had my hands on a P-3.  It is by far a better gadget, but it should be, for double the price back when both were new.

That doesn't mean the PL1 was a bad camera.  It seems to handle better,  and I think the PL1  looks less menacing than the P3.

The joy of a rangefinder camera is that people don't see you with your camera to your face sighting down a viewfinder at them.  A flip up screen would be a good thing, for street photography or other candid shots of people.

Thanks again to everyone for their help.

Now I get to learn how to operate my new toy.