That just limits the amount of light that can enter the camera to make an exposure, so isn't ideal in low-light conditions, as one example.įortunately there are heaps of MFT lenses available on the market, and likely a bunch available on the second hand market too, so you'll never be short of expansion options - if you see this as that kind of camera. That particular lens does extend electronically when switching the camera on - its zoom is electronically barrel controlled too - to make it somewhat larger, but stowed away it's pretty neat.Īs a Micro Four Thirds camera, any MFT lens is compatible, and we've been using the much larger 12-35mm with the camera as it's got a much better close-focus distance and wider aperture (f/2.8 at wide-angle) compared to that fairly limited 14-42mm, which has an f/3.5 aperture at the widest, dropping to f/5.6 at the longest zoom point.
With the included pancake lens (14-42mm) attached, it's a rather small camera by any mirrorless standard too. It's a good-looking and capable little camera that, following Olympus' sale of its camera business to OM Digital Solutions, sets the precedent that the new owners' approach is very much the same as that of old. So while the camera market may be on a downturn, the Olympus E-P7 gives the corners of our mouth a welcome upturn. It's also small in scale, the price point doesn't creep into the four-figure ask of so many competitors, and the breadth of Micro Four Thirds lenses on offer gives it considerable scope for expansion. It's got a distinctive retro look that, bar Fujifilm, you won't really find elsewhere. That said, the E-P7 is radical and different in terms of design.
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Much the same can be said for its performance - the autofocus is capable but, again, it's not a patch on, say, Sony's current best. The image quality remains much the same - meaning it's good, but it's not going to challenge the current higher-resolution competition. If you were hoping for something radical and different then, really, the E-P7 isn't wildly different from the five-year-old Pen F, albeit without the viewfinder.
It's been an awful long wait for a new Olympus camera, so has the E-P7 been worth the patience? Well, it depends what you're looking for in a camera.
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