I'm LOL. There are pluses and minues to every body style, and a RF style isn't a panacea to all your photographic issues. Frankly, the RF body is even more antique than the SLR style body, and every bit as much designed around the requirements of film chambers as is the SLR body style. I'd like to see the manufacturers really think outside the box, and come up with some designs that can really be operated, almost totally, at eye level. The existing RF style bodies require you to take the camera away from your eye at least as much as their DSLR style counterparts, and the non-EVF bodies are even worse in that regard. If you're constantly poking at a touch screen, you're not looking at the world where your subjects are. With the EVF capable of displaying everything the rear LCD can display, why do I need to take the camera away from my eye to change WB, focus points, AF mode, etc.? An RF style body doesn't solve the anachronisms we've inherited from the film world, it just repackages them a bit.
You call Panasonic cynical, I say they're meeting a market demand that Oly isn't. To me, a camera without an eye level VF is little more than a toy, and a clip-on EVF is worse than that. You lose the advantage of small size, and have to deal with a crappy attachment that's always falling off. Watching people trying to compose on the LCD screen in bright daylight is truly funny, as is watching them trying to get steady pics with their arms cantilevered out in front of them.
Your implied condescension of those who don't share your mania for a "pocketable" camera with EVF is simply rude, and demonstrates a loack of understanding that not everyone has the same viewpoint as you.
Can you possibly recognize that one size doesn't fit all, and not everyone wants the same thing you do?
Finally, I repeat: There's not a single m43 camera made today, with or without EVF, that will fit in any of my pockets 8 months out of the year, so the arguments about the reasons for wanting a RF format m43 camera are meaningless, as it won't fit in my pockets either. EVF or not, if it's too big to fit in my pocket it's too big, and I'm not willing to put up with the trade-offs today's "small" bodies require. If I've got to carry it on my shoulder, around my neck, in a bag, or in my hand, then the G3, and even the GH2, are plenty small. A GF3 won't fit in my pockets, so it offers little real advantage in size compared to a G3, and very real disadvantages in ergonomics.
Do you walk around wearing pants with kangaroo pouches for pockets or something?
Indeed. Since I have a Pen I am shooting every day or at least 4 times as much as with my earlier dSLR. So it's the whole point.
OTH if I had a built in EVF in a RF Form Factor I'd use it again 4 times as much.
So if one has to repeat this self evidence, it's only because one preaches to people who cannot abandon dSLR-centric habits. Panny was cynical enough to build lines of product based on that, Oly didn't.
Sony and soon Fuji will demonstrate how the faux-dSLR FF is indulging to (ex) dSLR owners, but has nothing to do with the future of mirrorless cameras.
Lack of built in EVF in Pens is also a sign of obsolescence of design.
These errors might be paid bitterly when the new mirrorless brands and models with built in EVF and RF FF will go onstream.
Is it so difficult to understand? 'What is in 'extreme compactness' definition of m4/3 so dificult to understand that it can't be related to 'pocketability'? LOL
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