Olympus EP3, EPL3 & EPM3 - More toys for people like me!!!!

If you have been visiting my blog, you would know I am crazy about photography!

Yes, I used the word - Crazy … hee hee hee. 

Why I said so? I can wake up as early as 6 am to go out for photo shooting with my photography buddies …. We can walk and walk a few kilometers without feeling tired and still excited to talk about photography and cameras …. We love photo shooting and we share our photos in facebook and give each other a “pat at the back” and made one another siok sendiri (self entertaining)…

All these were possible because of one word, ie, PEN

YES, PEN! It is not the pen that you use to write your secret love letter to your darling, but it is a super brand of OLYMPUS camera series. Do you know the FIRST PEN camera from Olympus was born in 1959, man, I am not even born yet, the brand is one of the oldest brand and now, still around in the market but move on from film camera to digital camera.

You may check with this link to know more http://camerapedia.wikia.com/wiki/Olympus_Pen.

Because I have purchased a PEN camera EPL2, I got the opportunity to know other Pen users through some workshops. Through their recommendation, I have joined a facebook group called the PEN LOVERS.

And this is their tag line,

“PEN LOVERS, WE CAPTURE AND SHARE LIFE IN A MIGHTIER WAY”

This group was established by Koon Yik in 2010, he has great passion about the PEN Camera. He has taken initiative to pool all the "Penian" together to sign a "big big big" poster and gave it to the Olympus and the poster now is hanging in the training/conference room in Olympus office at Kuala Lumpur.

If you happen to own an Olympus PEN camera, I would like to invite you to join this group.

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_172539382761934

It is a close group but you can email the founder (remember to quote me lah) and I believe he will be glad to add you in. You may share your photos taken by Pen with us. If you are staying in Kuala Lumpur, we welcome you to join us on the TT (photowalk) in future.

By the way, Today, it is a GREAT NEWS as Olympus is launching a few new Pen Products …. ie, E-P3, E-PL3 and E-PM3. Yeah!!~ many of my buddies shouted with joy because they have been waited for this model for a long long time.

I check out the write up and I think the new models are so-so-so cool!!

I love the Pen Mini E-PM3… it is so CUTE !!!

I bet it is going to be number one choice for the ladies. It is not only cute but easily place in their handbag. Can easily take out to shot and forever ready to take picture!!

For me, it is a torture for a lady to carry a huge DSLR camera, even men had found difficulty to carry a huge DSLR camera around. Huge camera destroys the lady-like of a lady.

Come on, imagine in a photo, a lady with smaller hands with polished and beautiful nails, well dressed but holding an ultra large DSLR camera, what a “sinful” looked and destroy the beautiful image of the lady and even the whole photo.

That why, I am predicting the Pen Mini E-PM3 is going to be super “LIKE” by most ladies. 

For those who are looking for compact size camera with DSLR photo quality and allow changeable of lenses, EPM3 is going to be the BEST CHOICE ….

(Suddenly, feel like buying one for my wife …..OPS! Choi choi … no no … got to save money for other thing (like new lenses) … wakakaka… forget forget FORGET ABOUT IT ….. hehehehehe … for those who have $$$ and looking for a camera, please do consider getting one… hahahaha)

Another new model is EPL3, which is one step higher than my EPL2. I am not sure about other enhanced feature but I notice one big change is the flip out widescreen LCD … WALAU-EH …. How come my EPL2 doesn't have this feature? My saliva is flowing out liao :) It is so useful with a flip out LCD screen, any angle can be taken easily, especially those shot require low angle shot ...I am so envious-lah.

Last but not least, is the EP3, I think this is the taikoh (highes range), one obvious hhighlighted in Olympus website, it is proclaimed “World Fastest Auto Focus” … Hey, No joke!? … Is world hor !? …. True or not!? Is that means no other brands, not even the C and N can bet it Hor? …. I have no idea, but you can obviously walk into Olympus office to challenge them loh ….. 

Anyway, I am not expert in camera review. My “broken Malaysian English” with half cooked standard, I am not writing any review like my friends did. If you want to know more about the PEN camera, you may click my friend links … 

You may amaze what stunning quality of photos taken with these cameras. They are really beautiful. No wonder many experts told me, Olympus photos do not need much touch up because when the photo is taken, it is almost 90 over percent cooked … you do not need to enhance the photo quality from photoshop or others photo editing tool.

I was told that there is an enhancement of 12.3 MP sensor, it has improves further the dynamic range of the photo and now, I believe it stopped other N or C users to condemn  sensor of Olympus is small.

Review by Koon Yik

Review by Robin Wong

Furthermore, the camera came out with new art filter effects … I especially like the starlight effect, I have obtained permission from my friend Koon Yik to share his photo taken by EP3… You can see how beautiful the effect of starlight appearing in the photo, straight from camera!! … It is really stunning, isn’t it?

Photo taken with Pop Art with Starlight effect, Using EP3 (Credit to Koon Yik)

Oh, Men, make me feel like upgrading my camera ........ hahahaha...

The End.