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Help: I love M43 but on the edge

Started Mar 3, 2015 | Discussions thread
Mike Ronesia
Mike Ronesia Veteran Member • Posts: 3,043
Re: Help: I love M43 but on the edge

400trix wrote:

pocketpygmy wrote:

Indoor events: f2.8 zoom (12-35 or 12-40)

Birds: Olympus PRO 40-150 f2.8 and 300mm f4

Bokeh: Panasonic 42.5mm f1.2, Olympus 75mm f1.8, any of the f0.95 manual focus Voigtlanders

A word about brands. Panasonic is a giant electronics corporation. Their cameras tend to be somewhat... loveless. Perfectly functional of course, but kind of generic. Many people don't care. Some do. Olympus on the other hand has a way of designing cameras that imbue them with a certain something else -- character, or spirit, or attention to detail... Don't ask me to qualify this! It's just something I've noticed in my own experience and in reading many online comments -- it's a kind of apples/oranges difference between "I love my Olympus camera" vs. "my Panasonic is very good". Have you tried Olympus cameras?

To put it another way, Olympus is kinda like Alfa Romeo to cars. According to Top Gear, you can't be a proper petrolhead until you've owned and Alfa. I don't think that you can be a proper photography geek until you've owned an Olympus.

And that comparison to Alfa is apt in so many ways...

Loved my Alfa, but it broke down a lot. I guess if what you say is true, I'll stick with Panasonic. Loved my WRX as well and it never broke down.

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