Why you should not feel guilty of spending 1200 on the Pen-F

Steve2015 wrote:

photo perzon wrote:

-PEN-F has style and looks great

Those who think the Pen F has style and looks great are those who also think that a Jaguar E type with 24" rims and a body kit looks great and stylish.

The only guilt you should feel about is being conned into the hype and marketing.
It offers no significant improvement over the EM5 II, yet here in Oz it costs several hundred dollars more than the EM5 II, thats what you need to feel guilty about!
Here's the kicker, it's the most expensive oly, yet it doesn't have PDAF, weather sealing, not as ergonomic, has a swing out lcd, no improvement in ISO.
I can't for the world of me figure out why it's the most expensive oly (actually it's the most expensive m4/3 camera), the only theory that comes to mind is that oly is going for form over function with the PEN F, but they haven't been able to pull it off.

Apple has made it so that how we look doing something is part of how it is done...is there any movie where the actors are not using an Apple laptop? Or an iPhone? No. They all use the Apple products cause they look cool.

And yes we pay for fashion. Any car over a Toyota Tercel is overpurchase. Now the Apple car is gonna be very small, very cool, very beautiful and very important to look cool in it. Johnny Ives must be killing himself to make it look good.

You can buy a Toyota Tercel, but don't expect a self respecting American female to ever adorn your ride. To get a girlfriend over a 7 you need a Lexus 3 series. To get attention a 5 series BMW, to get the benefit of the doubt a 7 series BMW, the new iPhone could not make it a 7, the Apple people made us wait for the coming 7, that is when fashion will dictate an iPhone with no buttons at all!

So there is a bit of that with the PEN-F. PEN...it is no coincidence that the most loved thing we all hold is the PEN, a Parker, Cross, or a $ 895 Montblanc PEN.

Now the PL7 does not have a silent mode, and if you need a silent moment not to wake the baby, to disturb the priest, to take away or insult the speaker, go ahead and click clack your way into a woosh or a shut up and your careeer will be ruined. Yeah Peter interrupted the CEO with that noisy camera yeaaaah. Here comes the stapler. Of course there are other silent cameras, but how you got the engineering path into a PEN-F and brought the Olympus benefits into that final benefit...the skin tones, the stabilization, the features, the colors, the class, and now the silent, finally.

And yes, the PEN-Fs small series at half the weight of the PEN-F and the same features, with $ 0.20 cents of weather proofing and 4K and faster AF will cost more. Can't wait for 2017.

Or just buy a Leica for $ 7995 and a couple lenses for $ 6000 each. You know the Leica primes, the zooms you hopefully do not have to ask the price of.

Did Lexus upsell you from a 250 to a 300 to a 350RX to a 400 to a 430 to a 460LS? Did Mercedes upsell you from a 230c (that was a great car) to a 300 to a 430 to a 500 to a 600S? Yes! Yes!

I remember recently I saw an old tired retired doctor listening to the Mercedes salesman..."let's see your lease payment is now $ 1785 a month, this new model (that was the upsell pitch), the payment will be 2250 a month," The doctor's 75 year old wife was popping celebrex pills to tame her arthritis ... my good friend has 5 ex-wives all getting alimony he makes 2 million a year and drives a Kia (that is like a plastic surgeon who uses a CVS disposable $5 camera ha ha ha with charge light announcement feature and hole OVF ha ha ha).

America, love it or buy it. The alternative is some comrade from Russia with a 20 pound camera. They must call those the Polar (oid) model for when you walk to the north pole I can see from Kiev.

But all seriousness, the PEN-F is a social camera. You can still pull it out of your jacket pocket and take pictures socially without looking like you need those chest harnesses with padded rests of those photographers in the Barmitzvah 12 hour party. You know the Hasselblad bricks.