The last chance ?

Dunsun wrote:

Hey,

Right now I'm thinking about switching brands again. And hopefully you can give me some advice.

I have owned many many cameras including:

Sony A7, Panasonic GH2, Olympus E-PL1, E-P1, E-PL5, 2x E-P5, E-M10II, E-M5II, Samsung NX200, Fujifilm X-E1, X-A1.

3 years ago I bought 2 Olympus E-P5 cameras. For me a best camera I have ever used: ergonomics, rangefinder style, tilt screen, 2 wheels, 1/8000s and Olympus colors.

Anyways after some time I have discovered that it suffers from many physical design issues:

both of them had issues: with wheels (so had to be repaired twice), were suffering from a shuttershock and when shooting on e-shutter 0 delay (to prevent that shutter shock) there was sometimes visible something like a banding on my photos. Even though picture was shot during a daylight and it was a landscape shot.

So I sold both of them.

Then I bought Olympus E-M10II. Very good camera again.

But from the begining I have found that it suffers from an AF inaccuracy (backfocus error - quite often and mainly for closer focus distances).

1 month ago I bought excellent Sigma 30mm 1.4 contemporary and 1/4 of my shots are backfocused (head and shoulder shots). This is not acceptable for me. Focusing on an eye but back of head or ears are in focus. This happens even more often when shooting in bad light.

Well ok what to do now ??

A camera that is closest to my beloved E-P5 is Pen F. But since this camera has very similar AF system as E-M5II and E-M10II I do not believe that it will be visibly better and more accurate.

OK what about Panasonic GX80 ? It seems to be a very good camera. Though I'm afraid of its jpeg colors.

Does color significantly improve if one can use Passport color checker for calibration GX80 ?

I still own (2 years) Sony A7 that is on sale now because I hate everything except pure image quallity (that is really excellent).

Other cameras that I still own are Fujifilm X-E1 (stunning camera but very slow AF and no tilt screen), X-A1 ergonomically very bad camera but out of camera colors are excellent.

So I'm thinking about completly jumping ship and getting Fujifilm X-T20 or upcoming X-E3.

But still trying to stay within m43 camp since I own many nice lenses.

Is there any other m43 camera that would be similar to my beloved E-P5 and had better AF (not faster but more accurate) than all actual Olympus cameras that I have used (E-M10II, E-M5II) ?

Thank you

it's an odd complaint as I have owned virtually dozens of bodies across multiple systems including canon apsc and full frame, sony a7 and m43 (almost every body bar the pen series), but not fuji. The biggest party piece of m43 is focus speed and accuracy... bang on first time every time almost without fail... that's what keeps m43 in my bag... it's faster and more accurate than DSLR for single shot AFS, doesn't need any focus adjustment that dogged my days as a Canon DSLR shooter, and is faster than a7. Unless the pen is a stand out in a bad way among m43 for accuracy, you must have a dud?