{"id":3014,"date":"2014-07-01T17:40:16","date_gmt":"2014-07-02T01:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/3d.coldstreams.com\/?p=3014"},"modified":"2014-07-01T17:40:16","modified_gmt":"2014-07-02T01:40:16","slug":"close-up-of-flower-taken-with-olympus-e-pm2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/3d\/2014\/07\/01\/close-up-of-flower-taken-with-olympus-e-pm2\/","title":{"rendered":"Close up of flower taken with Olympus E-PM2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Click through for larger version on Flickr. I was testing an E-PM2 and used a Hoya close up filter (handheld as it was the wrong filter diameter) to test the camera&#8217;s close up ability using the kit 14-42mm lens. The E-PM2 is economical and is shooting better photos than my GH-2. Now, I won&#8217;t give up my GH-2 but I am impressed!<\/p>\n<p>These were taken using P mode and all camera default settings, output to JPEG, not RAW. Beautiful color rendition. The camera turns on and focuses very fast. I have not yet tested the video capabilities of the E-PM2.<\/p>\n<p>The E-PM2 does not include an eye viewfinder but the VF2 is available separately from Olympus to add a viewfinder. I have one for a different Olympus camera and it works fine for my uses.<\/p>\n<p><em>I was at an event this past weekend where there were several people lugging their very large well known brand name cameras with equally very large telephoto lenses. I am so glad I shoot micro four thirds and travel light!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Olympus E-PM2 Test\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/edwardmitchell\/14574215953\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter \" src=\"https:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3914\/14574215953_4d8c1f8854_z.jpg\" alt=\"Olympus E-PM2 Test\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Olympus E-PM2 test\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/edwardmitchell\/14550747011\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter \" src=\"https:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3854\/14550747011_b50dbd1b6b_z.jpg\" alt=\"Olympus E-PM2 test\" \/><\/a><a title=\"Olympus E-PM2 Test\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/edwardmitchell\/14367509959\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter \" src=\"https:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3902\/14367509959_6064621e1c_z.jpg\" alt=\"Olympus E-PM2 Test\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click through for larger version on Flickr. I was testing an E-PM2 and used a Hoya close up filter (handheld as it was the wrong filter diameter) to test the camera&#8217;s close up ability using the kit 14-42mm lens. The E-PM2 is economical and is shooting better photos than my GH-2. Now, I won&#8217;t give &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/3d\/2014\/07\/01\/close-up-of-flower-taken-with-olympus-e-pm2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Close up of flower taken with Olympus E-PM2<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cameras"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/3d\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/3d\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/3d\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/3d\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/3d\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/3d\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/3d\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/3d\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/3d\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}