Eastward-PL8 Key Specifications

  • 16MP Four Thirds CMOS sensor
  • 8 fps continuous shooting
  • 3-axis image stabilization
  • Tilting 1.04M-dot touchscreen LCD
  • Born Wi-Fi
  • Enhanced controls for shooting self-portraits

The E-PL8 valiantly takes place at the bottom of Olympus' Micro Four Thirds lineup, though don't assume that information technology's low-end. It replaces the Due east-PL7 as Olympus' 'gateway' camera into its ILC system for people who take discovered their love of photography through their photographic camera phone and want to take the next stride up.

With this client in mind, the E-PL8 has tried to bring together the best of both worlds, offer features that are useful no matter which way the camera is pointed and that should appeal to the young hip crowd that is set to improve the quality of their images.

First and foremost, this customer most probable already owns a cleanly designed, trendy personal electronic device that works only as much as a mode accessory as a slice of technology. Knowing that, the E-PL8 has gone through a bit of a design clean-up when compared to the Due east-PL7. A new set up of optional color-coordinated cases and straps indicate equally much thought was put into aesthetics as operation for this update.

Second, with the E-PL7, Olympus wagered that their customer would exist equally interested in pointing the camera at themselves as often as away, since that is one of the chief ways phone cameras are used. The Due east-PL7 was therefore equipped with a rear screen that could bending xc-degrees upward or 180-degrees downward to face the front of the camera, allowing a lensman to effortlessly frame a self-portrait. For the E-PL8, the touchscreen configuration remains the same just receives some updates to brand taking self-portraits or video easier.

The E-PL8 also inherits the ability process both JPEG and Raw files in-camera. With JPEGs, adjustments are limited to things similar cropping, shadow aligning, scarlet-eye correction, and color saturation. Raw processing, still, is much more than in depth and offers the ability to modify any paradigm parameter that can be adjusted while shooting, like highlights and shadows or the application of the extended banking company of art filters that first appeared in the Eastward-M10 II.

The skillful news is the hardware plant in the E-PL8 is known to exist a decent piece of kit, as information technology has been lifted from the Silver award winning East-M10 II. All the E-PL8 doesn't include is the Eastward-M10 Two'south electronic viewfinder, although i that attaches to the hot shoe is available as an accompaniment.

Included are color coordinated strap lug covers and camera strap.

The East-PL8 comes in either black, white or brown leatherette over a silver matte chassis finish. Prices will start at $549.99 for the body merely, and $649 for the kit that includes the 14-42 IIR zoom lens. Those prices are $50 lower than what the E-PL7 cost when information technology was introduced.