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Name: 📸 Olympus Pen E-PL8 Camera Kit with 14-42mm f/3.5-5.6 Lens, White/Black
Item: 📸 Olympus Pen E-PL8 Camera Kit with 14-42mm f/3.5-5.6 Lens, White/Black
Rating: 1

April 13, 2023

The product is of poor quality, I don't recommend it.

I took this phone for blogs on YouTube, as the characteristics indicate that you can connect an external microphone to it.
I bought it, I'm looking for a microphone input - it's not there. There is only HDMI and a strange Olympus USB. I read the instructions - there is no information.
I am writing to Olympus Technical Support, the answer is that only one microphone is connected to it, Olympus.
It’s necessary to think of this, for the sake of selling your microphone, to refuse everyone who already has excellent and professional microphones!
Return, and now my opinion of Olympus as a company will never be the same. But my first professional camera was Olympus, and I respected this brand. (((

Pros

1. Compactness. 2. The ability to control it from a smartphone.

Cons

1. Manual. A thick book in which only 7 pages are devoted to 2022, and there is almost no information there, even about how the phone screen unfolds. Found and downloaded on the Internet a complete manual of 150 pages. But there is also no information there or it is impossible to find. There is no Screen or Microphone in the index list. 2. Screen. One of two things, either its unfolding is completely useless, since it does not rotate 180 degrees in any direction, or its unfolding is not intuitive. Either way, it's very flimsy and won't last long. 3. Trouble with connectors. Instead of USB, some strange, apparently Olympus.