Originally posted by C.W Tsorotes I really liked the build and design of the EP-2, not sure what it is but I definitely loved that little camera and want one.
To my big surprise the AF was a lot faster than I'd expected.
My MAJOR MAJOR MAJOR gripe with the NX10 & Panasonic was the absolutely terrible viewfinders, they have miles and miles to go before they can even match a real viewfinder, can't comment on the EP-2s attachment as I didn't have one to sample. To my eyes all I keep seeing is rainbow flashes to which is really annoying. Worse it just looks like someone got an LCD and put a magnifier on it, doesn't feel right and very uncomfortable for long periods.
I just purchased an olympus e-pl1 to replace my panasonic gf1 (couldn't live with lack of image stabilization in body - guess I've had too much of a good thing with Pentax!). I had the viewfinder for the GF1, but it was abysmal, something like 122K dot resolution (only useful in bright light where the LCD was washed out). I wasn't keen on buying the olympus vf-2, though I had read it was much better. Well, I tried the olympus VF in-store on monday night. Ordered it on ebay yesterday (they are sold out everywhere, with good reason). Here is was dpreview had to say about the oly VF (which is 1.44MP, 10x the resolution of the GF1 VF I had) compared to those in the G1/GH1:
The VF-2 offers the same 800x600 pixel resolution as the unit that appears in the Panasonic G1, GH1 and G2 but makes each pixel up of three dots (red, green and blue), rather than the Panasonic's field sequential display that draws each color one after the other. This gives the Olympus the advantage that it doesn't suffer from the 'tearing' that can occur if you move the Panasonics quickly (meaning that the camera is trying to draw a slightly different scene by the time is updates each different color, giving vertical objects a red, green and blue edge for a split second).
I am guessing the rainbow effect was from the constant refreshing of different colored VF pixels in the panasonic (and probably nx10 too). Sounds like something similar to the rainbow effect people used to experience with DLP projectors - due to the refresh rate and some people's vision, it would creat an unwatchable rainbow effect (since fixed through higher refresh rates).
The VF-2 from olympus is simply put amazing. MF was spectacular and I can wait to use it with some legacy glass.