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Is the Micro Four third image ful image or cropped (like APS-C)?

Started Jan 8, 2016 | Questions
AviPro
OP AviPro Senior Member • Posts: 1,254
Re: PL6
To the OP:

How much can you spend on a second camera? Olympus makes great cameras, and while secret world is right about the 0 sec shock feature, I used an E-PM2 for two years which lacked this feature and suffered very few instances of shutter shock. The E-PL6 with the tiltable screen is a nice camera which I think you will enjoy. Of course, if you have more money follow secretworld's advice and get a E-PL7 with the better stabilisation feature; it's a more updated camera.

In terms of lenses, nothing wrong with the standard Olympus 14-42 lens. I certainly think if you were going to buy your camera body only, I would consider a Panasonic 12-32, certainly that would be more appropriate fit to your camera then the 12-40 Olympus zoom suggested in an earlier post. That lens is too big and heavy for an E-PL.

Don't know your finances - but look at this deal: the E-PL6 and the standard kit 14-42 for $299. $299 and you're good to go with m43. Check it out - http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/search?Ntt=E-PL6&N=0&InitialSearch=yes&sts=ma&Top+Nav-Search=

traveler_101

Nice! Thanks for the link for the EPL-6, yes this is the price point what I had in my mind the $300 mark. I also own a Pentax K5II so the budget is only for something that can be easily carried.

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Thanks, JK

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TheEye
TheEye Veteran Member • Posts: 4,883
If you shoot JPG the image is cropped, but not when shooting raw

Not the kind of cropping about which you are concerned, but here it goes:

RAW image: 4100 x 3084

JPG image: 4032 x 3024

The JPG crops 4080 perfectly good pixels.

It's been said in the past that those pixels along the image border are used for all sorts of image processing voodoo instead of as part of the image, but in my experience these pixels are fully usable.

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