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

Soulhand wrote:

luisflorit wrote:

Very nice poll!

Not really. The question asked for a definite answer about the brands generally, and no one responder has the knowledge to assess that. So all you'll get is people's subjective opinion on what brand is more reliable, based on experience with, at most, a few bits of kit they personally have had.

A better poll would be

• I've owned both Olympus and Panasonic Kit and have had more reliability problems with Panasonic
• I've owned both Olympus and Panasonic Kit and have had more reliability problems with Olympus
• I've owned both Olympus and Panasonic Kit and have equal reliability problems with both
• I've owned both Olympus and Panasonic Kit and have no reliability problems with either
• I've owned only Olympus but I have had reliability problems
• I've owned only Panasonic but I have ha more reliability problems
• I've never owned either brand, I'm only here by mistake

Then if we got a lot of answers, we could consider drawing a conclusion. Although even then it's statistically dodgy - I have had more Olympus quality issues, but then I have only one bit of Panasonic kit and that's a prime lens so less to go wrong.

But the poll as it stands is only usable for assessing what people believe about quality of the two brands.

Paul

Actually even then you can't make any kind of scientific conclusion.  For a poll to be scientifically valid it needs a random selection of "all" users (aka the population) of both manufactures.

Right now all you can say is based on people who have registered on this forum and those that even bothered to answer we see this.  But that is about as close to a statistically meaningful answer as me trying to hit the sun with a rock I throw from the bottom of the ocean.