I purchased a e-620 months before however the camera I got was defective. My first copy had hot pixels that could not be removed in pixel mapping, also the bottom of all my photos had a yellow tint. Something was wrong with the sensor. After a long time going back and forth trying to get a replacement, I finally received a new e-620 on April.12,2010.I have good news, the replacement is wonderful, great image quality and has been trouble free. The reason I got this camera was because I wanted to try to get into the world of macro photography. The 2x crop factor is a perfect match for the 35mm f3.5 macro. I plan on useing this camera for travel and photographing insects when outdoors. Still trying to get used to the razor thin DOF when shooting macro subjects, I sometimes find it difficult how a slight movement forwards or backwards can throw off focus. Guess that's what tripods are for.
So far the things I like are...
1.nice and small. I don't think a dslr needs to be any smaller than the e-620, its the perfect size for comfort and convenience, but I have to admit the ep-2 looks really nice as well.
2.Lots of advanced features that are not in some cameras that cost 3 or 4 times as much.
3.I know this shouldn't affect buying decisions but I think the e-620 is a really good looking camera, definitely different from other manufactures.
What I don't like.
1. Battery drains really fast.
2.live view af is slow and hunts a lot.
Here are a couple of test shots of some items I found lying around my house. There not that well thought out or lit but there something.
The shots bellow are all shot at iso3200 hand held, I didn't have a tripod on hand so I was forced to get photos with bland color. The noise reduction was set to normal in camera. Some minor fix's in Lr 3 beta with no noise reduction on computer.
Here is a B&W version. I think it looks a little less noisy.
I was having lots of fun with the art filters. I was one of those people who thought it was just a gimmick because we could just add it later in photoshop. I don't feel that way anymore, this is way more fun, were forced with these film like presets. Also since the lcd screen flips close, I sometimes feel like I am shooting with film. I had more art filter photos but I later found out that Lr 3 beta takes away the art filter affect if I shoot in raw.