my first attempt on nightshots did turn out pretty well and i am pleased with the results:

Ep1 with 14-42 @ 14mm 1,6s f8,0 ISO 200 with gorillapod

Ep1 with 14-42 @ 14mm 1,6s f8,0 ISO 200 with gorillapod

Ep1 with 14-42 @ 14mm 5s f10 ISO 200 with gorillapod

Ep1 with 14-42 @ 18mm 2s f9 ISO 200 with gorillapod

Ep1 with 14-42 @ 30mm 6s f8 ISO 200 with gorillapod

Ep1 with 14-42 @ 14mm 20s f8 ISO 200 with gorillapod

the overall image quality and the dynamic range of this cute little camera simply amazes me

 ISO1600 f3.5 @ 1.6 seconds

ISO 400 4 sec Exposure

Also I'm looking to get a Canon EOS to m4/3 adapter to use my Canon 50mm 1.8 (which I love) anybody have any experience with this adapter?

The E-P1 is a great camera, so great that it made me went off tangent to consider Olympus in the first place! I thought i wanted to go the canon way but when i saw the leaked pictures...well, lets say lust met wallet equals E-P1.

I went to a local cultural festival nearby my neighbourhood the other day, just to see how well can the E-P1 cope with low-light. After showing the pictures to dpreview however, they all commented that my photos are soft.

These two pictures are straight from the camera, without PP other than web resize.

Should i have sharpened them first?

I used jpeg as i have no experience in RAW shooting.

Maybe the safari can help me out here?

I really love this camera - it's a design classic imho, and if I could only have one camera... this would be it.

Really looking forward to Olympus bringing us HG/SHG m4/3rds lenses.

Kind Regards

Brian

The thing feels like a tank. Very nicely built, no creak.

The EP-1-14-42 is too big for any but the largest of coat pockets or perhaps large cargo pants. I believe that the EP-1+17mm will be much more pocketable. My 17mm is coming Monday and I will post for sure then.

For a gadget geek, the setup of the camera is a lot of fun. Lots of customization options. One annoying thing.You can't use "My Modes" and "Custom WB" since both only work if they are assigned to the FN buttton. Perhaps a firmware update will allow one of them to be assigned to the AF button or they might add it to the super control panel page.

AF is not speedy, but for most of the types of pictures I take, it is certainly usable. My family has been out of town, but I will post next week after I try family shooting with it. I expect it to be fine, since my LX3 was perfectly usable for that, and it is as fast as the LX3.

A great case for just the EP-1+14-42+spare battery can be found here: http://products.lowepro.com/product/Terraclime-50,2114.htm

Now for some pictures:

This picture is exactly why I have been waiting and hoping for something like the EP-1. Nothing fancy, just a 1600ISO shot with very little noise:

This would have looked like a mess on my LX3. Take a look at the full sized shot on my Flickr page. It is very clean.

The 14-42 has a very short minimum focus range:

I am going to have fun with this.

The next two are just two shots I liked:

I like the Pop-Art filter.

Couldn't Focus fast enough, but I really like it, except for that damn red light from the car in front.

All in all, I am very happy with my purchase. It is certainly not going to replace my D700, but I wasn't getting the EP-1 to replace it. I can see I am going to get a lot of use out of it for times when I don't want to carry around a large kit.

Full sized version of the images can be found on my flickr page.

Regards, Michael

http://www.flickr.com/photos/michaelthek/

the latest dpreview of the E-620 has highlighted an insensitivity to certain, subtle shades of purple... unfortunately, there wasn't an actual comparison - just a slightly misleading 'perceptual approximation'.

I wondered whether the Sigma DP1 might be a good camera to compare against, to see if we can demonstrate the issue more realistically.

E-P1 + mZD 17mm f2.8 pancake

1/200s f/2.8 at 17.0mm iso200

Developed from raw using Olympus Studio

Olympus E-P1 out of camera jpeg (note - taken later in lower light condition - AWB)

1/40s f/2.8 at 17.0mm iso200

Panasonic G1 + mZD 17mm f2.8 pancake

1/80s f/3.5 at 17.0mm

Developed from raw using Lightzone

Panasonic G1 out of camera jpeg

Sigma DP1

1/25s f/4.0 at 16.6mm iso100

Developed from raw using Sigma Photo Pro 3

The Sigma DP1 has the most dramatic separation of colour - in fact it is more pronounced than the true subject... and the E-P1 and G1 are both very slightly less sensitive to the colour difference than the true subject.

Of the versions above, the Panasonic G1 image converted using Lightzone is the closest to reality as I see it here. The E-P1 developed from raw runs a close second.

The 'fisher price' Panasonic jpeg colour shows the whole subject into the purple zone, and the E-P1 jpeg is also off into the blue zone.

Kind Regards

Brian

This is the fastest CDAF performance I've seen yet from the E-P1, so with the right lens hardware the E-P1 should be capable of even faster focusing - looking forward to some HG/SHG m4/3rds lenses from Olympus! The sooner the better, imho.

Kind Regards

Brian