Pros:-Fantastic image quality-Small-Slow motion video is great-Silent modeCons:-Not the best in low light-Menu system is

Beautifully designed camera with excellent functionality and great image quality

The overall build quality and functionality are excellent, the image quality is great, although—as others are noting—the new 20 meg sensor does not appear to be a deal breaker

If you contemplating moving into mirrorless cameras, and are weighing M43 versus larger mirrorless formats, remember that you are buying into a system, so consider the size, weight, and price of the lenses as well as sensor size and quality before making your leap.

If it can have the Pen form factor without the front dial (the only legacy camera I remember that had that kind of a dial was the Argus C-3 which was one of the ugliest cameras ever sold), so much the better!

Versatile LCD screen that can be rotated to face back into camera(for protection and EVA only mode.)

The articulating screen is nice to turn it around and protect the screen while in bag or even just to leave like that to force me to use the nice viewfinder.

But I would have preferred a tilt screen instead of a flip one

The screen on the back can be flipped out of the way to save battery, protect its surface and just because it looks better this way

The Pen F is beautifully made with excellent dials and no visible screws

Its beautiful dials harken back to a golden age of camera appearances when the camera was just as beautiful as the art it created

Dedicated art filter dial so that art filters are not buried in

And it's one of the coolest looking cameras on the market currently.

I do like its looks, though the styling owes more to the Leica/Contax/Canon axis than to the original Olympus Pens

But there's no reason to pick the PEN except that you like its looks

Some reviewers love the retro looks and have probably been too quick to love this camera.

The controls can't get much better than the ones on this camera

Even though this is a Pen and not an OM-D, I feel like all the controls are

If it can have the Pen form factor without the front dial (the only legacy camera I remember that had that kind of a dial was the Argus C-3 which was one of the ugliest cameras ever sold), so much the better!

This is an update after learning more about the camera: While the menus, particularly the advanced custom menus remain daunting, I've learned to love the Super Control Menu which allows the user to change stuff on the fly

The IQ is good for a MFT camera, with decent noise control, including nice usable images up to 3200 ISO

The pictures seem fine, but not that much better than my old Lumix GX7, a much better designed camera.

For all the great ergonomics of the Pen F, that control disk and menu system detract from it's intelligent design

In my opinion, physically the most beautifully designed camera ever

The failure to auto-focus in low light and the poorly placed tripod mount are stupid, unnecessary design errors in an otherwise nearly perfect camera

The reasons I wanted this model were:5 axis stabilization20 megapixel sensorBuilt in viewfinder on a Pen style bodyDesign!I love the design

you can find niggling things to complain about, but at this level of technology, there are no major faults

And I should mention that I no longer feel the need to print really large images (good thing considering the cost of really large format printers...) which no doubt colors my views

Not only can you do things like change the contrast curve, color balance and even individual colors, you see the results as you adjust and can save them to custom banks.

A pretty significant thing you must be aware of is the positioning of the tripod mount screw

If you contemplating moving into mirrorless cameras, and are weighing M43 versus larger mirrorless formats, remember that you are buying into a system, so consider the size, weight, and price of the lenses as well as sensor size and quality before making your leap.

The original appeal of M43 was not only the smaller size of its cameras (which is now being matched by some with larger formats) but also the smaller size of its

The slower zooms are smaller and work well, particularly with the in-camera image stabilization, and are the right physical size for this camera

It looks like it should be much smaller, not the same size as the E-M5.I can't make a practical argument for owning this camera, but with a nice little lens like the 17mm f/2.8, it is fun to use and looks great.

But the size is a little disappointing

Again: I do highly recommend the Pen F, particularly if you can get it for any discount

I recently was able to get one of the first available Pen Fs from Amazon, and this review is based on first impressions after using it for about two weeks

I have had the pen f for several months now and have not regretted my decision

So, although I can pair the Pen F with the f 2.8 pro larger lenses, it seems to defeat appeal of carrying the small, stylish Pen

So, with the above in mind, reasons to like the Pen F (besides silly stuff like it's stylish):(1) Starts out smaller/lighter than Fuji/Sony/Canon and the advantage grows if you add more lenses(2

HDR is an amazing feature: When the range of tones exceeds the camera's ability to capture you shoot in HDR mode which takes many shots at once of the same scene with varying exposure levels so one captures the detail in highlights and others detail in shadows and the camera stitches the composite together as one picture

A lot has been made of the plethora of dials/knobs on this camera, but I am a big proponent of being able to control a camera without having to go into the menu system for every feature- especially the critical exposure features.

Overall, I think this camera out retro styling ahead of important features, like weather sealing, and then they jacked up the price.

On paper this seemed like a great feature but in reality it is an absolute disappointment

The viewfinder to me is a useless feature because the majority of photos I take are in daylight while wearing sunglasses and I have to use the LCD screen

Olympus makes some superb lenses but for size and weight, I ended up with 4 Panasonics: 7-14, 20, 12-35/2.8 and 35-100/2.8.

Long lenses aren't a problem

I decided to give the Pen a try, at first with some of the cheaper lenses.

I use it with an Olympus 60mm macro lens, as well as Chinese CCTV lenses

But I was looking to get a smaller system, combined with some nice small Olympus prime lenses, and trying to decide on the EM5ii or the EM10.

If it can have the Pen form factor without the front dial (the only legacy camera I remember that had that kind of a dial was the Argus C-3 which was one of the ugliest cameras ever sold), so much the better!

The failure to auto-focus in low light and the poorly placed tripod mount are stupid, unnecessary design errors in an otherwise nearly perfect camera

The failure to auto-focus in low light and the poorly placed tripod mount are stupid, unnecessary design errors in an otherwise nearly perfect camera