Olympus PEN E-PL1 12.3MP Digital Camera
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The E-PL1 is Olympus third Micro Four-Thirds Program photographic camera and its also the cheapest and most beginner friendly photographic camera within the Micro Four-Thirds stable. The Pen E-PL1 is often a new 9-18mm, 14-150mm, and 40-150mm m.Zuiko Micro 4 Thirds lenses.
Around the back again, the manage that operates zooming in and out from pictures in review (and jumping for the focus examine zoom mode) is created up of two buttons. For the E-P1 and E-P2, it absolutely was a rotating dial. Several features have also been assigned towards the buttons within the four-way manage. Exposure compensation, flash, drive method, including a focus choice method are all now offered by means of the directional buttons. The middle, as using the other PEN versions, pulls up a menu of additional alternatives about the shooting display screen. Thats exactly where youll get to other often-used alternatives for ISO, white balance, and AF method.
Automate Everything
Reside Information is just the begin of automated technologies about the E-PL1 created to no cost you as much as focus on your own themes rather than focusing on your own cameras configurations.
Olympus PEN E-PL1 highlights
- Intelligent Car (iAuto) Method: Whenever you dont wish to use the scene-select modes, the iAuto method immediately identifies what youre shooting and adjusts adjustments for one to capture the finest final result depending about the condition.
- 19 Scene-Select Modes: From portraits to sunset shots, the E-PL1 is equipped with 19 Scene-Select modes for effortless image getting, such as Fireworks, Sunset, Kids, Macro and Panorama, to name several. Capturing lovely portraits is simple using the ePortrait Method that enables one to sleek your subject matter complexion.
- Face Detection: Decrease the opportunity of blurred themes in pictures by recognizing as much as eight faces, monitoring them inside the picture region, and immediately focusing and optimizing exposure for sharp portraits.
- iEnhance: With this method the warm yellow and orange colours of your sunset are heightened to some drastically lifelike colour thats truer to what you see using the naked eye. iEnhance is usually used in any method, and immediately engages when using iAuto to enrich colour in any topic.
- In-Camera Panorama: Capture 3 pictures and stitch them jointly to produce 1 awesome, seamless panoramic image. Or use the incorporated OLYMPUS [ib] program to stitch as much as 10 pictures jointly for that ultimate panorama.
- Share: Just connect the photographic camera to an HDTV with an optional HDMI cable and use your Television remote to manage playback features and navigate the cameras menus from the convenience of the individual front-row seat. The E-PL1 records to SDHC (Class 6 recommended) media cards that is usually plugged immediately into a lot of equipment and accommodate huge files, which includes videos.
With E-PL1, amateur shooters or maybe kids can hone their skills significantly simpler. While you will find a lot of cameras that give guide and auto controls like Sony’s DSLRs, E-PL1 is nevertheless a revolutionary camera presented with an affordable cost, portable, simple to handle and fewer complicated features. E-PL1’s mode dial allows the user to alter configurations through full guide, shutter and aperture priority modes. For amateur photographers, the Live Information is a special device to learn various adjustments, until you master them. This camera may be used from the whole loved ones, whether the user is an skilled shooter or just a beginner.
In addition to the mentioned features, E-PL1 has skill filter functions. Olympus contains six skill filters that may be used in still photos or video and can turn a photo into a function of skill. Some in the talent filters in E-PL1 are the Diorama mode (also discovered in E-P2) which can mimic the look of your tilt-shift lens, Pinhole setting, Pop Talent method, Sepia impact, Grainy appear and Smooth Focus skill filter.
| Body material | Plastic with metal front panel |
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| Dust suppression | Supersonic Wave Filter |
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| Aspect Ratio | 4:3(Default), 3:2, 16:9, 6:6 |
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| Lenses | Micro Four Thirds Mount, Range of M.ZUIKO DIGITAL lenses available, Multiply focal length by 2 for 35 mm equiv. FOV, Compatible with standard Four Thirds lenses via adapter. |
| Auto focus | Imager Contrast Detection AF system, 11-area multiple AF, When non High-speed imager AF compatible lens is used, it works as AF assist. |
| Image processor | TruePic V |
| Image sizes (Still) | 4032 x 3024,3200 x 2400,2560 x 1920,1600 x 1200, 1280 x 960,1024 x 768, 640 x 480 |
| Image sizes (Movie) | 1280 x 720 (HD)@ 30 fps, 640 x 480 @ 30 fps |
| Movie length | 7 min @ HD, 14 min @ 640 x 480 |
| Focus Area Selectable | Automatic, v Manual, Auto from all 11 area, Single area from 11 area, Auto from almost all area when Face detection is ON, Free selection (from 225points) when Magnified View Mode is selected |
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| Drive modes | Single, Sequential, Self-timer (2 or 12 sec) |
| Continuous | 3.0 fps, RAW: 10 frames maximum |
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| AF assist lamp | No |
| Exposure modes | iAuto, Program AE (with shift), Aperture priority AE, Shutter priority AE, Manual, Art Filter, Scene select |
| Scene modes | Portrait, e-Portrait, Landscape, Landscape + Portrait, Macro, Sport, Night Scene, Night + Portrait, Children, High Key, Low Key, DIS mode, Nature Macro, Candle, Sunset, Documents, Panorama, Fireworks, Beach & Snow |
| Art Filter | Pop art, Soft focus,Pale & light color,Light tone,Grainy film,Pin hole, Diorama, Gentle sepia |
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| Exposure fine tune | ±1EV in 1/6EV steps |
| Shutter speed | 60-1/2000 sec |
| Flash X-sync speed | 1/30 - 1/160, 1/125 - 1/2000 with 'Super FP' compatible flash |
| White balance | Auto, Cloudy, Shade,Flash, Daylight,Fluorescent 1,Fluorescent 2, Fluorescent 3,Lamp, 1 custom preset,Kelvin (2000 - 14000 K) |
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| WB Bracketing | 3 frames,2, 4 or 6 steps |
| Color space | sRGB, Adobe RGB |
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| On-screen information, live control mode (Additional info in Super Control Panel mode, engaged via custom settings menu, in green) | Battery information, Shooting mode, Shutter speed,Aperture value, Exposure compensation value,ISO sensitivity, Exposure compensation indicator, Exposure indicator, Flash intensity compensation indicator,Date,Auto BKT setting, NR setting, WB,WB compensation value, Record mode,Flash Status, Image size,Drive mode,Flash intensity compensation value, Metering mode, Recordable still image number, Focusing mode, Gradation,IS activating mode,Face detection, My Mode, Multi Exposure,Aspect Ratio,Super FP,AF frame, Colour space,Sharpness,Contrast,Internal Temperature Warning |
| Orientation sensor | No |
| Electronic Viewfinder | External (optional) |
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| Live View Information | Aperture value,Shutter speed,Auto Bracket,AE Lock, AF mode,IS,Shooting Mode,Battery Check,My Mode,Internal Temperature Warning, Face Detection, Histogram, Number of storable still pictures, Record mode, ISO,Sequential shooting,Self-timer,White Balance,Metering Mode, AF confirmation mark,Exposure Compensation Value,Spot metering Area,Only when E-system Flash attached : Flash Mode, Flash Status, Flash intensity Control, Super FP |
| Power | BLS-1 1150 mAh Lithium-Ion rechargeable battery (supplied & charger) |
| Dimensions | 115mm (W) x 72mm (H) x 42mm (D) (excluding protrusions) 4.5" x 2.8" x 1.7" |
| Weight (no batt) | 334g (296g) |
| Box contents | E-PL1 Body, Li-ion battery BLS-1, Li-ion battery charger BCS-1, USB/Video Multi cable, Shoulder strap, OLYMPUS [ib] software CD-ROM, Instruction manual, Warranty card. |
| Playback functions | Single-frame,Information Display,Index Display(4/9/25/100 frames, Calendar), Close-up (2 - 14X), Movie (w/sound, FF/REW/Pause), Picture rotation (auto mode available),Slideshow(Still/Movie/Still+Movie, Slide show w/BGM/BGM+Sound/Sound) |
| Editing | RAW development, JPEG editing (B&W, Sepia, Red eye reduction, Color saturation, Resize, Shadow Adjustment Technology, Anti red-eye) |
| Storage | SD/SDHC |
| Connectivity | USB 2.0 (Hi Speed),Mini HDMI,Video Out (NTSC / PAL) |
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