{"id":4238,"date":"2013-03-08T11:25:16","date_gmt":"2013-03-08T19:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/?p=4238"},"modified":"2013-03-08T11:34:33","modified_gmt":"2013-03-08T19:34:33","slug":"olympus-e-pl2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/art-and-illustration\/photography\/olympus-e-pl2\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympus E-Pl2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"P3070267 by Wright Reading, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rightreading\/8540072620\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"P3070267\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8225\/8540072620_d14d21bed7.jpg\" width=\"435\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This photo of a jade plant in front of the fireplace was taken with my new camera, an Olympus E-PL2. This is a mirrorless camera in the micro four thirds format (so called for the 1.33 in. size of the sensor, I think). The best thing about the fairly new mirrorless cameras is that they employ near-DSL-size sensors in point-and-short-sized bodies (although eqipped with anything other than a pancake wide angle lens they are not really pocket sized). Within the mirrorless category, the\u00a0u4\/3 system is nice because some major camera manufacturers (notably Olympus and Panasonic) got together and agreed on specifications for the system. This means that within the\u00a0u4\/3 system you can buy a camera body from one company and make use of a lens from another company. The E-PL2 is a couple of years old, but it was offered at a great price, and the lenses are the same as on the current models (such as the OM-D-EM5, which is great but lists for $1300 on Amazon).<\/p>\n<p>For more examples, I have some garden photos like this one posted at <a title=\"garden photos\" href=\"http:\/\/www.friscovista.com\/news\/gardens\/a-late-spring\/\">Frisco Vista<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"apricot blossoms - P3080274 by Wright Reading, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rightreading\/8540249512\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"apricot blossoms - P3080274\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8520\/8540249512_56c18f3df1.jpg\" width=\"435\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And low-light examples like this one from the Asian Art Museum&#8217;s Terracotta Warriors show at<a title=\"china's terracotta warriors: the first emperor's legacy\" href=\"http:\/\/7junipers.com\/log\/chinas-terracotta-warriors-the-first-emperors-legacy\/\"> 7Junipers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.7junipers.com\/images\/china\/terracotta-20warriors\/warriors2-P3070211.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"terracotta warrior (kneeling archer)\" alt=\"terracotta warrior (kneeling archer)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.7junipers.com\/images\/china\/terracotta-warriors\/warriors2-P3070211.jpg\" width=\"435\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This photo of a jade plant in front of the fireplace was taken with my new camera, an Olympus E-PL2. This is a mirrorless camera in the micro&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4238"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4238"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4242,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4238\/revisions\/4242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}