Olympus PEN Mini E-PM1 review

Is the smallest Olympus CSC as easy to use as it promises?

Olympus PEN Mini E-PM1
The 12.3MP compact system camera comes in a range of colours

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Higher sensitivities are slightly softened due to noise reduction, but the noise has a fine texture up to ISO6400.

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Finally, at ISO12800, images contain much coarser noise and colour saturation suffers, but images taken at this setting should still be suitable for sharing online at reasonable sizes.

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