My experiences with micro four thirds

Hi everyone,

Just wanted to share my experiences with the micro four thirds system.

I sold all my Nikon gear a couple of years ago - based around the excellent camera the D300. It was getting old, no replacement had come out, it was too heavy to carry, many times I didn´t bring it on vacations because of the weight. But what a great camera it was, in many ways I still miss it - the autofocus system was just excellent, it somehow knew what I wanted in focus.

So I decided to switch to micro four thirds and went for the OMD EM10 with a Panasonic 14-140 and Olympus 25 mm F1.8. I´ve now used the camera for well over a year, but I´ve never liked it. It´s too small, and I find the controls counterintuitive. Autofocus is really terrible, and it takes too long to adjust the point of focus, I´ve missed so many shots. And it can´t be used for moving subjects at all. So finally this last week I sold it. Instead I got a Panasonic GX8 - and my passion for photography is back. What a camera! Love the size of it, well thought out controls, just so easy to use!

Congrats on the new camera!

Of course the gx8 is a better camera than the em10 but it's not as bad as it sounds from your experience...But yes it's tracking af is horrible but single point af is pretty quick I gotta say. Secondly you don't need to press buttons for the af points..Just use the touch screen...it would af exactly where you want it with out moving the focus point with the buttons and the super control panel makes making changes rather quick imo
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