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Who's more reliable/less prone to malfunction? - Olympus vs Panasonic

Started Mar 6, 2017 | Polls thread
digifan Senior Member • Posts: 2,332
Re: Who's more reliable/less prone to malfunction? - Olympus vs Panasonic
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sapporodan wrote:

Just yesterday my EM-5 refused to turn on

Plus it had the well know screen bezel crack that got worse and worse until I had it fixed. Also my old EP-3's command dial fell off, and that needed fixing.

Well the screen bezel crack could be repaired under warranty, there even was a recall issued to repair those E-M5's of the firtst batch. The new bezels were sturdier and never failed.

I've had 4 Panasonic cameras, treated them just the same and not had any issues with any of them!

Strange as I always felt Panasonic feel cheaper and less well made!

As for lenses, the rubber grip fell off my Panasonic 14-140 (Mk1) and I somehow got fungus in an Olympus 14-42 R.

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