E-PL6 (or E-PL5) as a pocket camera?

Tom Caldwell wrote:

Impulses wrote:

Since I live in the tropics and it's never jacket weather over here, for me the GM is no more pocketable than an E-PL would be... Both need a waist pack if I'm bringing a couple lenses or at least a strap, I could get away with slipping the GM into cargo shorts during the day but that's about it.

I've actually wanted an RX100 for a while too, that brighter lens on the mk3 really made it even more appealing, but the price was always too high for something that would be my secondary camera...

That's what made me take a second look at the GM1 the low prices), and I'm really enjoying having it even tho for me it's not really pocketable. It's small enough that I'll actually bring it along with my GF6 with a second lens mounted tho, which helps tremendously (less swapping).

It's also that much more conspicuous in social situations, these days someone's more likely to think "who's the weirdo with the P&S" than be self conscious about what I'm shooting. It's light and small enough that I don't even mind it on a wrist strap tho.

I can't see myself splurging on an RX100 anymore unless it dropped under $500...

With the GM1 I'm finding my M4/3 gear as a whole more usable than ever, on the rare occasion that I don't wanna be seen with a camera on me at all (like if I'm a groomsman in a wedding ceremony or with strangers) I'll just reach for my old P&S (LF1) or simply the phone.

I live in a warmer part of the world as well and jackets are maybe a month mid winter on a cold day. I don't see the GM1 as a pocket camera - just a small one. Therefore a carry bag of some sort is necessary. But any given size carry bag will carry a whole lot more gear if it is based on the GM1 as a system camera. So I load my little cameras up with whatever lenses that I need without feeling that they need babying with only the tiniest lenses lest they break .....

A Ricoh GR can give you first class prime lens performance in a quite small package.

While Helsinki is about as south as you get in Finland, we are pretty much "north of the Wall" here (60 deg N) and I'd say it's jacket weather at least 9 months a year. So even the E-PLs might be pocketable to some extent.

Regards,

Timo