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OLYMPUS E-PL5

SONY ALPHA 5000

Compact system cameras are no longer playing catch-up with SLRs. Indeed, Canon’s own EOS M beats the company’s newer 1200D in many of its lab test scores and the tiny Nikon 1 S2 isn’t far behind

Budget camera kits despite having the smallest image sensor in the group. The Olympus E-PL5 puts in a strong all-round performance while, in JPEG mode, the Sony A5000 does well to deliver low-noise images at very high ISO settings.