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.. exactly as boring as the ones about DSLRs dying: full of specious arguments, facile conjecture, and convenient straw men. Of course, ratty's posts are made worse by the fact that he has...

The substance I challenged you to respond to was not my expression of amazement at your ridiculous crusade--it was my argument in favor of the E-M5 as "a beginner's" camera, and also my...

You don't even bother with the substance of my reply. Typical.

Assuming "the beginner" wants to learn about photography, and not just make pretty pictures with a minimum of effort, the E-M5 is a better camera than the E-PL or E-PM series because it places more...

Right, and then you'd complain their products are taking too long to release.

It's impossible to write perfect software for the present--and now you want it for the future, too?

Right, and then you'd complain their products are taking too long to release.

It's impossible to write perfect software for the present--now you want it for the future, too?

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The entrant's gallery contains another very similar shot with exif data naming a Canon 600D:

http://www.dpreview.com/galleries/7101672141/photos/2542396/img_0074

How lame.

Seriously?

photo perzon: knowing you, you'll have two of these next week.

Too late? Did you sell your soul or something?

(If not, there's always craigslist. Just sayin'...)

Why don't they do a bunch of stuff that only you seem to find value in? I'm not sure why you expect the rest of us to know...

Yeah, lead. Plus the best IBIS mechanism on the market, and an (almost undoubtedly) larger & more robust 1/8000 shutter mechanism.

I was going to say: "because its view is comparable in size to the OVF in the freakin' Canon 1D-X !"

But then I see that the NEX7 EVF is only a tiny bit smaller. Wow -- how'd they do that?

@Dave: But .. but .. XTRANS! <faint>

Good to know, Mr. Fuji.

... not material to YOU. So you should have asked, "why would I want this over the OM-D"? (Asked yourself, I mean. In your head. Not here.)

... not material to YOU.

So you should have asked, "why would *I* want this over the OM-D?"

(Asked yourself, I mean. In your head. Not here.)

Peiasdf: well, let's see... there's the much faster AF, the IBIS, the 1/8000 shutter, the smaller lenses, more lenses, the faster operation, the wifi...