The taste for colors is subjective. GF1 and the PEN produces quite different colors and white balance. Most find that the PEN produces nicer skin tones and more accurate white balance. But as for street photography, the GF1 did also produce fantastic images for me too. I personally find that the GF1 sucks at indoor white balance. As for outdoors, it does produce fantastic images with quite different colors from the PEN. For street photography, I think it’s acceptable.

I would say, if you plan to use manual focus lenses like the old film lenses, the Olympus EVF2 is a MUST for speed and accuracy. You should check more on http://www.flickr.com for images as reference. The PEN is not at all inferior in image quality to the GF1. Cheers!

I’m deciding between the Pen e-p2 and the Lumix GF1, which should I get? or is the best combo the 20mm lens on the Pen?

I like that the Pen has EVF, the auto focus, and the the art filters, but do the pictures take more time processing if using any of the filters?
On the other hand, the GF1 har a better screen resolution and flash.
I’ve seen nicer pics taken with the GF1, and it seems more popular among people. I’ve tried both in a store, but I still cant decide. I want to use the camera for street pictures and portraits. Which one would you recommend?

As for which PEN to buy, the E-PL1 produces the best quality images among them, with better high ISO performance even though the max. is at ISO3200, sharper images due to thinner anti-liasing filter, and a pop up flash. The most annoying thing is the lack of “auto-rotate” feature in images taken.

Overall, if you are a beginner, I personally think the E-PL1 suits you more.

Do you mind to do a review comparing 3 models? In order to have a clearer picture which is better or suitable for a beginner photographer.

Can we change lens for all three models?

In addition, I have since tested Panasonic lenses, and they are significantly sharper than the Olympus lenses. The best combination to achieve the best results using original autofocus lenses will be e-p1/2 with Panasonic lenses.

The micro four thirds cameras have this one thing that is amazing. It can fit an almost limitless range of lenses via adaptors on it! So, keep your old film camera lenses if you have them, be it Nikon, Canon, Pentax, Minolta or Konica… … etc. and etc… I really mean “limitless”!!! Even CCTV lenses!!!

Get one and start enjoying!!!

Also, would an external flash be necessary??

Hope you don’t mind me asking! Thanks!

I recently bought the E-P2, and am having an absolute BLAST of a time taking photos with it.

I love the colors and tonality I’m getting from the E-P2 – they’re far more pleasing out of the camera than what I could get from my various Nikon and Canon DSLRs.

The Art Filters are extremely handy too, much, much more useful than I initially imagined they would be.

The small size of the camera is such a huge relief from having to lug around DSLR bodies and their lenses – even a small DSLR outfit such as a Nikon D40 plus 18-55mm lens looks huge next to the E-P2 plus 14-42mm kit lens.

I tried jogging with the E-P2 (since I like taking macro photos along the way) slung across my body this morning – it was a very comfortable affair – I could hardly feel the camera.

I’m thankful to Olympus for producing such an excellent picture maker.