Olympus PEN E-PL1 Hands On: The Cheap Micro Four Thirds Camera for Everybody (with Flash!) [Digital Cameras]

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Published Feb. 3, 2010 at 1:00 a.m.
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It leaked earlier today, but we're still pretty struck by Olympus's latest micro four thirds camera, the E-PL1. Why? It has a built-in flash (finally!). And it's $600, making it the cheapest micro four thirds camera around.

The E-PL1 takes the opposite tack of the E-P2, stepping down a rung. So, you're probably wondering what you give up to shave off that couple hundred bucks. Shockingly little. It's got the same sensor as every other micro four thirds camera. But it's not as solidly built as the E-P1 or E-P2, trading metal for polycarbonite (but that makes it lighter), and you lose some of the controls on the back, which are shifted from dial to a d-pad + menu, so they're slower to get to. Oh, and sound for video is cut back to mono, but you can attach a stereo mic to the accessory port. I'd venture, too, that it's a little uglier than its more retro predecessors, since it's boxier in an unpleasant way though it is, to be fair, even smaller.




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