Olympus E-PL5 Pen Camera – Featured User Review

Thanks to Heather S for her Olympus E-PL5 Pen camera user review. Her review was selected as a Featured User Review because it’s well-written with plenty of detail and she represents the perfect Olympus E-PL5 buyer – a point-and-shoot photographer looking to move up to an unintimidating but high-performance interchangeable lens camera. And the E-PL5 is just that. It uses the same 16-megapixel sensor as our 2012 Camera of the Year, the Olympus OM-D E-M5, so it has the same excellent image quality and much of the same performance – only it costs about half as much as the OM-D. Scroll down to read Heather’s Olympus E-PL5 user review.

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Featured Review: Olympus E-PL5 Compact System Camera

by Heather S (Casual)

Price Paid: $599 from The Shutterbug
Review Date: February 6, 2013

Overall Rating: 5 of 5
Value Rating: 5 of 5

Summary:
As a knowledgeable but novice photographer this is the first interchangeable digital lens camera system I have owned; I haven’t shot manual in more than 10 years. The Olympus E-PL5 gives me the freedom to use a wide range of iAuto settings along with art, scene and other capabilities while I gain more experience and confidence before attempting to shoot photos in manual mode. I was looking for a higher-quality camera than a typical point and shoot, but that would have the options and capabilities of a DSLR that I could grow into…

I’m the point-and-shooter aspiring to be camera geek and the E-PL5 is a great fit for me…(read more)

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