Olympus E-PL6 vs Pentax Q7

Olympus E-PL6 advantages over Pentax Q7

• Lens selection
  Excellent vs Limited
  Better lens selection gives you more options
• Larger sensor
  4/3 vs 1/1.7 inch
  More sensor area. Bigger is (generally) better.
• Less expensive
  $300 vs $500 (MSRP)
  Save money for lenses or accessories
• Bigger pixels
  ~ 3.75 vs 1.90 microns
  Better low-light and dynamic range (all else equal)
• Touchscreen
  Touch vs No touch
  Interact with your camera just like your smartphone
• Tiltable Screen
  Tiltable vs Fixed
  Tilt the screen for shooting flexbility
• Longer stills battery life
  More info

  Longer stills battery life

  Cameras with longer battery life can take more photos before exhausting their batteries.

  Special note: The measurement standard for battery life stipulates that if a camera has an internal flash, it must be used for 50% of photos taken. For this reason, comparisons of one camera with an internal flash to another without will not be comparable

  360 vs 250 shots
  Capture more photos
• More telephoto lens reach
  84 mm vs 69 mm
  Capture objects farther away with the kit lens
• More dots on screen
  614k vs 460k dots
  Can mean greater resolution or a brighter screen
• More pixels
  16.1 vs 12.4 megapixels
  Higher resolution photos
• Longer exposure
  60 vs 30 sec
  Long exposures for night shots
• Higher extended ISO
  25600 vs 12800 ISO
  Higher extended ISO can give more low-light flexibility