Olympus Pen E-PL Cameras (2018) vs Fujifilm GFX Cameras (2017)

The Olympus Pen E-PL9 (2018) is a great Mirrorless Camera for its $299 asking price.

The Fujifilm GFX 50S (2017), however, is merely passable at its $6499 price point. If you're considering buying a Mirrorless Camera in the $5,600 range, you might want to check out some of its competitors.

While the Olympus Pen E-PL9 (2018) wasn't able to make it to the very top of any roundups from sources that perform quality hands-on testing, it still got featured in a large number of them. Techradar, Photography Blog, camerajabber.com, Tom's Guide, PCmag, Digital Photography Review, and Digital Camera World have all deemed it worthy of a place on their respective shortlists.

Moving on to the Fujifilm GFX 50S (2017): it was unable to reach the very top of any roundups from sources that conduct reliable and unbiased testing. Nonetheless, it still managed to impress reviewers from a number of such sites, like camerajabber.com, Digital Camera World, Photography Blog, TrustedReviews, Techradar, Digital Photography Review, and PCmag, enough for them to include them on those lists.

We analyzed all of the review data that we could find on these two Mirrorless Cameras. First, we examined sources that tested and scored both of these products - camerajabber.com, Photography Blog, Digital Photography Review, and PCmag favored the Fujifilm GFX 50S (2017) over the Olympus Pen E-PL9 (2018), whereas reviewers at Techradar and Digitaltrends haven't shown a preference for either.

Then we took a look at which sources liked them the most - we found that the Olympus Pen E-PL9 (2018) was best received by Techradar - it gave it a score of 9, whereas the Fujifilm GFX 50S (2017) got its highest score of 10 from reviewers at camerajabber.com.

Lastly, in order to better compare them to the rest of their competition, we averaged out their review scores. The Fujifilm GFX 50S (2017) managed to get 8.7 out of 10 - considerably better than the 7.9 review average of Mirrorless Cameras in general - whereas the Olympus Pen E-PL9 (2018) earned 7.6 points.

It should be said that doing a direct Olympus Pen E-PL9 (2018) vs. Fujifilm GFX 50S (2017) comparison might not be entirely fair due to the difference in their prices - some sources don't put much weight on value for money and thus tend to give better review scores to more expensive products.