I haven't been around for a while because of posts just like this. People are falling all over themselves to defend a mediocre sensor that clearly performs, at best, equal to the previous sensors that Oly released. The AF is just a bunch of smoke and mirrors, and it's great if it can focus faster than a D3, but it's no where near the same camera. Try to take that same focus and do it in the dark, you won't be able to do it. Even if you did, you wouldn't be able to shoot at a ISO appropriate for the setting without using flash.

Some of the people on this thread bemoning other's disappointments of the poor ISO performance, are the same people that continue to tout the inflated ISO performance of their own cameras. Some people may criticize for criticisms sake, but it seems like people are also guilty of defending for defending sake. It's been a LONG time for Oly to come out with this camera, and they only have a tricky AF system to show for it. If it was something more I doubt we'd even be having this conversation.

I hate to troll, but sometimes there needs to be a voice of reason. Plus, I like coming by and reading these hilarious threads, as Panther correctly points out.

One more thing, the EP-3 also focuses faster than my Mamiya 7, but the Mamiya is leaps and bounds ahead. Let's start buying cameras because they take excellent pictures. For someone wanting to get into m4/3 on Olys side I'm sure the EP-3 will be fine. But it's not something for people to upgrade to, I'm sorry, the pictures speak for themselves...

so a better post would be to tell people how much the pen sucks and how the improvements don't matter and to concentrate on the jpeg noise? 

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so a better post would be to tell people how much the pen sucks and how the improvements don't matter and to concentrate on the jpeg noise? 

Voyager pretty much said this in his post in this thread.....