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Could even reduce the price by supplying weaker and smaller flash. Nobody cares about that anyway. I do but we are talking marketing and people are obviously buying that crap from sony that can't lit up 10ft at maximum output. silverfoxey: there's a wide range of Olympus and Panasonic lenses (plus some from Tamron, Tokina and Sigma) that will fit on this camera and work fully, plus adapters for the original, larger Four Thirds mount (those lenses will retain their full functionality, but will seem large and slow compared with the Micro Four Thirds lenses intended for this). There are also official (Olympus and Panasonic) adapters for Olympus OM lenses and Leica R (and M) mount lenses respectively - less functionality with those, obviously, and after-market adapters to physically mount practically any older lens too (obviously their mechanical connections don't interface with the electronic ones on the camera in this latter case). Usefully, the Olympus in-body stabiliser can be made to work with any such lenses, just by telling the camera the focal length - this step is automaticaly done on the native lenses with all-electronic connections. The High burst speed has been raised ever so slightly from 8fps on the E-PL7 to 8.5fps on the E-PL8. The Low burst mode, on the other hand, remains the same at 3.7fps. In the real world, you will hardly notice any difference.
The front of the E-P7 has a lens mount and button to detach the lens, of course, but it also has a Profile Control Dial on the front. This allows the user to swap between standard, color and monochrome photo modes and filter effects. They don't overcome the inherent limitations of contrast-detection AF, though, with some hunting still present whilst the camera tries to fine-tune the focus. The Olympus PEN E-P7 has a time-lapse photography mode, which allows you to capture up to 999 frames at user-specified intervals. You can also tell the camera when to start the sequence, which comes in handy if you want to set up the camera well in advance.The E-PL7 is the sixth camera in Olympus's midrange PEN Lite lineup. The PEN series has been somewhat overshadowed by the excellent OM-D cameras, whose DSLR-like styling has been better received than the rangefinder-esque PENs, but the PL7 makes a bid to reaffirm the position of the smaller cameras. There are no less than 31 different Art Filters in total. The Art Filter digital effects are applied at the time of capture which means write speeds are inevitably a couple of seconds longer than for regular images. When shooting using certain filters, such as Diorama or Dramatic Tone, the screen's refresh rate slows, providing a real time preview of how the eventual image may look. The Olympus PEN E-P7 is the successor to 2013's E-P5 model - yes, no less than 8 years have elapsed since the launch of this camera's direct predecessor (an E-P6 was never released). The EP7 is the first ever camera released under this new ownership, although it's probably fair to assume that it was mostly developed by Olympus rather than OM Digital Solutions.
Having the screen flip under rather than over avoids having to worry about the hot shoe and accessory port. The earlier E-PL5’s screen flipped up above the camera but apart from not quite attaining a fully vertical position, the hot shoe, even when not in use, impeded the view slightly and you obviously couldn’t use the screen in this orientation with a flash or any other accessory fitted. For your more standard modes, there are 'Picture Modes.' These include i-Finish, Vivid, Natural, Flat, Portrait, Monotone, Custom, e Portrait, Color Creator, Art Filters, Monochrome Profile Control, Color Profile Control. The Art Filters referenced include Pop Art, Soft Focus, Pale & Light Color, Light Tone, Grainy Film, Pin Hole, Diorama, Cross Process, Gentle Sepia, Dramatic Tone, Key Line, Watercolor, Vintage, Partial Color (18 colors), Bleach Bypass, Instant Film. While it's never going to be a sports camera, the burst shooting speeds are still impressive –the mechanical shutter is rated at 8.7fps (we managed to squeeze 9fps out of it) and with the electric shutter you can get up to 15fps. Depending on the subject the AF keeps up very well,but don't expect to use this for birding. With a sleeker, even more retro look, Olympus are clearly betting that would-be-buyers will be wowed by the E-P7's exterior appearance as well as the accompanying specification list when compared either with the E-M10 Mark IV or its main rivals from the likes of Fujifilm, Panasonic, Sony and Canon. Although it’s hard to assess exposure in bright conditions, the E-P7’s ESP metering generally does a great job so in most situations you can rely on the camera to produce a decent image. There’s also a histogram view that will let you know if the highlights are going to be burned out or underexposed etc, but it would be nice to have a viewfinder to be able to assess the image with a good preview.Shooting modes include Aperture priority, Art Filter, Manual, Program and Shutter priority, while one-shot echo and multiecho effects can be added to movies. Just as we found in the OM-D E-M10 IV, the autofocusing system for the E-P7 doesn't set the world ablaze. But it is at least predictable, which is perfectly good enough for a camera of this type and size. Although this is the first Olympus camera to be released under the brand's new OM Digital Solutions owners, it seems likely it was in development long before.
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