Why is the EM5 so much more popular than the GH3?

Dave Sanders wrote:

No, not at all. Anyone who tried would find the thumping would most likely go the other way, or at the very minimum I'd steal their ice cream and eat it in front of them.

Indeed!

And a largely incorrect opinion. I enjoy candid photography, and candid street photography at that. By definition, if someone notices you, it is not candid. Henri Cartier-Bresson went to great lengths for stealth, including famously wrapping his Leica's in black or using a handkerchief to pretend he was blowing his nose...or even standing on a ladder and hiding around corners. People like Paul Strand and Helen Levitt documented life unnoticed from the sidelines as well. William Eggleston's popularization of colour photography had much to do with his ability to capture mundane, private moments and make them feel immediate and real. Phillip-Lorca diCorcia's outstanding 'Heads' series takes capturing an unsuspecting subject to a sort of stage-managed brilliance.

Candid street photography has long been the domain of stealth, of taped-up logos, waist-level finders and zone focusing. And it has not been done by bearded, trench-coated photographic flashers but by the greats, the giants of photography. The urge to capture life and life's emotions unvarnished and unnoticed is a noble one. The 'decisive moment' doesn't involve consent and a signed model release, sorry.

I don't know if you meant it to come off that way, but your pretentious derision of a style of photography you feel to be 'dishonest' or, likely, beneath you, is fatuous at best and, at worst, woefully ignorant of a large part of the foundation of photography. When lots of the world's most famous photographers and a whole slew of smart folk on this forum do something with such purpose, perhaps it is best to assume they may know something you don't rather than to assume that they are sneaky, underhanded, dishonest or scared of being thumped.

Or stick to courageous pursuit of birds and macros, for it is most certain you are at no risk of being thumped.

-- Dave Sanders