Most cameras are utilitarian and, truth be told, quite ugly. Not the ($1,000 for camera body).
This mirrorless digital shooter is a throwback to the first iteration, released in 1963. And like the original, it looks just as good as it works, with a metal body, old-school dials, and leather accents.
Opportunities for great photos can arise suddenly as you鈥檙e wandering the city, so you want something unobtrusive enough to carry everywhere. The Pen-F is no high-speed action camera, but its svelte frame fits neatly in a pocket (sans lens). So does your smartphone, of course, but this camera鈥檚 sensor is significantly larger (20 megapixels) than what you鈥檒l find in, say, Apple鈥檚 latest handsets, which means it captures more defined low-light images and richer daytime colors. And thanks to those dials up top, you can take full manual control of the Pen-F if you like.
Will it make you as accomplished as great 20th-century street photographers like and ? Probably not. But it鈥檚 the perfect tool to help you develop your own style.