…but I’ve been looking over the past few years for a camera to replace our aging — aged, really — Canon G5. I like a fair bit of manual control, but Christy kept running afoul of the various mode dials on the G5; she’d accidentally bump it over to Aperture Priority mode or Movie mode before shooting, then realize when we got home that she’d taken a dozen fuzzy photos at high ISO. There are probably forty video clips in our PC’s “To Be Processed” folder that consist in their entirety of a smiling face and my wife’s voice exclaiming, from just behind the camera, “Oh, I’m shooting a movie!” So a camera that made it clear which modes were active (and made it difficult to switch between modes without warning) was an absolute must. Live view, particularly touchscreen-enabled live view, was also a necessity; Christy finds viewfinders uncomfortable and doesn’t like two-handed shooting.
And crucially, it had to be portable. I’m not a hobbyist, and I don’t have the money or time to be the kind of person who picks up his camera bag and walks around the neighborhood to take black and white pictures of interestingly textured railings. So in recent years I’ve found myself grabbing a small, terrible point-and-shoot that we bought Sophie for her third birthday and slipping it into a jacket pocket when we go out, or even just using my cellphone, simply because they’re easier to carry around; the pictures are worse, but at least they exist.
The development of the Micro 4/3 standard (and competing standards from Sony and Nikon and Samsung), then, was deeply intriguing. As the cameras evolved further and further from the bulky SLR formfactors, they moved closer to something I could imagine my wife and I both carrying around without complaint. We nearly bit on Sony’s NEX line a couple times, especially because we do a lot of high-speed indoor shooting because of the kids, but the cameras remained stubbornly just outside of our price range.
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First impressions: it’s astonishingly small and light. Even with the 14-42mm kit lens, it’s smaller in every dimension and nearly a half-pound lighter than our G5. As someone used to waiting a few seconds between turning on the camera and actually being able to frame a shot, it feels almost obscenely decadent to me to take a picture in the time it takes to shift my finger from the power button to the shutter. Autofocus is fast and accurate, and the touchscreen makes selecting AF points almost pleasant; it feels creative and directly responsive in a way that dial selection does not. The flash isn’t half-bad, either, as pop-ups go. This is a good thing, because without a hotshoe you’re stuck with it. There are a few other obvious corners cut, too, to conserve both space and price: there’s no mic port and only mono sound; there’s no in-body stabilization (although this isn’t uncommon with MFT cameras); and the kit lens seems a bit softer and slower than the camera’s Intelligent Auto realizes, meaning that handheld shots in low light can wind up blurry thanks to what seems a love of slightly longer than necessary shutter speeds.
I like it. For the price, brand-new, it feels like a steal — especially compared to the 20mm prime I’d like to buy for it.
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…but I’ve been looking over the past few years for a camera to replace our aging — aged, really — Canon G5. I like a fair bit of manual control, but Christy kept running afoul of the various mode dials on the G5; she’d accidentally bump it over to Aperture Priority mode or Movie mode before shooting, then realize when we got home that she’d taken a dozen fuzzy photos at high ISO. There are probably forty video clips in our PC’s “To Be Processed” folder that consist in their entirety of a smiling face and my wife’s voice exclaiming, from just behind the camera, “Oh, I’m shooting a movie!” So a camera that made it clear which modes were active (and made it difficult to switch between modes without warning) was an absolute must. Live view, particularly touchscreen-enabled live view, was also a necessity; Christy finds viewfinders uncomfortable and doesn’t like two-handed shooting.
And crucially, it had to be portable. I’m not a hobbyist, and I don’t have the money or time to be the kind of person who picks up his camera bag and walks around the neighborhood to take black and white pictures of interestingly textured railings. So in recent years I’ve found myself grabbing a small, terrible point-and-shoot that we bought Sophie for her third birthday and slipping it into a jacket pocket when we go out, or even just using my cellphone, simply because they’re easier to carry around; the pictures are worse, but at least they exist.
The development of the Micro 4/3 standard (and competing standards from Sony and Nikon and Samsung), then, was deeply intriguing. As the cameras evolved further and further from the bulky SLR formfactors, they moved closer to something I could imagine my wife and I both carrying around without complaint. We nearly bit on Sony’s NEX line a couple times, especially because we do a lot of high-speed indoor shooting because of the kids, but the cameras remained stubbornly just outside of our price range.
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First impressions: it’s astonishingly small and light. Even with the 14-42mm kit lens, it’s smaller in every dimension and nearly a half-pound lighter than our G5. As someone used to waiting a few seconds between turning on the camera and actually being able to frame a shot, it feels almost obscenely decadent to me to take a picture in the time it takes to shift my finger from the power button to the shutter. Autofocus is fast and accurate, and the touchscreen makes selecting AF points almost pleasant; it feels creative and directly responsive in a way that dial selection does not. The flash isn’t half-bad, either, as pop-ups go. This is a good thing, because without a hotshoe you’re stuck with it. There are a few other obvious corners cut, too, to conserve both space and price: there’s no mic port and only mono sound; there’s no in-body stabilization (although this isn’t uncommon with MFT cameras); and the kit lens seems a bit softer and slower than the camera’s Intelligent Auto realizes, meaning that handheld shots in low light can wind up blurry thanks to what seems a love of slightly longer than necessary shutter speeds.
I like it. For the price, brand-new, it feels like a steal — especially compared to the 20mm prime I’d like to buy for it.
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