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Disappointments and surprises of Olympus and MFT

Started Mar 25, 2016 | Discussions thread
Rich K
Rich K Senior Member • Posts: 1,006
Re: Disappointments and surprises of Olympus and MFT
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Just a couple of observations ...

-  If the rear dial is beginning to fail and you're unwilling to fix it, then it seems to me that your options are entirely wide open regarding both a new body and new lenses.  If as you say you do most of your shooting at the long end, then perhaps there's a better combination for you?  Although I'm uncertain that you'd find anything competitive to what you might pay just for the Leica 100-400mm when you're talking both a body and lenses.

-  As lenses go, you've got an "interesting" collection.  Again, if you're shooting mostly at the long end, that's where you should go for the quality.  If I were you I'd probably pony up for the 100-400mm, although I've also seen some nice results from other posters using the older Panny 100-300.  And I might suggest that you unload the other lenses and consider the Panny 12-35/2.8 and 35-100/2.8 zooms, which seem to have both been reduced to under $800 lately.  Great versatility, small and sharp.  And they have no problem supporting their lens hoods.    This of course assumes that you're going to keep the EM1.

- As far as bad JPEG colors go, you might take a look at your settings.  I personally found that "vivid" was way too much (may not be labeled the same on the EM1).  Just my opinion.

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