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Subject: [Leica] Oly EP 2 and its EVF
From: rbaron at concentric.net (Robert D. Baron)
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 18:46:45 -0500
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Can you buy the E-P2 sans lens?

==On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 5:20 PM, H&ECummer <cummer at netvigator.com> 
wrote:
> Hi Luggers,
> I was out last night delivering my sold Nikkor 300 f4.5 and stopped in
> at Fortress in Tsim Sha Tsui after completing the deal.
> They had the E-P2 with the (1.4 million pixel) EVF and I tried it. It is
> streets ahead
> of the Pana EVF that I have on my GF 1 - like looking at a HD TV
> rather than a grainy picture from the 1960's.
> Unfortunately, the Oly EVF won't fit on the GF 1 (we tried)
> so if you want or need the best EVF I have seen to date (and that
> includes the viewfinder in the G1 - which is also very good)
> you will have to buy the Olympus E-P2 with the 14 - 42mm kit lens.
> Hopefully Panasonic will reply soon with a better viewfinder
> for the GF 1.
> Another factoid. The salesman said that most buyers of the E-P2 kit also
> buy the pana 20mm f1.7. Now that I can understand!!
> Cheers
> Howard
>
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