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

I admit, it would have been better to add more options, like the ones you have suggested (noted for the future). Unfortunately, I cannot change it anymore.

I do think however, that this poll still creates some interesting picture about the topic, and I don't think it's just "what people believe about quality of the two brands", because many people have been using cameras from both brands and the results of the poll together with the comments seem to confirm that in peoples' experience Olympus cameras do malfunction more often.

I really wish it wasn't the case, because I do prefer Oly cameras, but he purpose of this poll was to get some general idea on what people have experienced when it comes to quality of the two brands in question.