Panasonic vs. Olympus bodies with a bagful of Panasonic lenses

I've just been through all this stuff. To my surprised, I posted here asking for help and I got great advice. I didn't take all of it, of course, but I got some really good food for thought and I think I came out pretty well at the end.

Let me say right at the start, you shouldn't have got the E-PM2, you should have gone for the E-PL3. I did, after an E-PM1. A superior camera in lots of ways.

BUT I moved on from that to Panasonic cameras when I reckoned Panasonic had got their JPEG color right -- I only use JPEG. I switched because of the handling and the menus.

I reckon Panasonic's ergonomics and UI leave Oly for dead -- although Oly is catching up in ergonomics, from what I see on this forum, but not yet UI.

My choice now is the G85, just recently bought to replace a G6. I also have a GX7.

As I remarked in another post, I was disappointed Panny didn't put the 20 MPX sensor in this camera, but really, given the IQ I get out of it, it is more for boasting rights than for the reality of what I need. The 16 MPX tweaked as it is, is great.

Sadly, the G85 comes only in black. I would have preferred white (like my G6), or silver (like my GX7). But I am willing to wear the black for the camera's other virtues, the great shutter (nearly silent in EFC mode, lovely), weather proofing, Dual IS with OIS equipped Panasonic/Leica lenses, and seemingly endless capabilities. I regard it as the premier middle range camera of any format today (the E-M1 II and GH5 are the two top cameras, I believe, but I don't need what they do that is beyond the G85.)

There might be one other Panasonic you're not considering: the GX8. You can get that in silver, and it does have the 20 MPX sensor. I think it is weatherproofed too. You would have to look at the specs. People say it is big, but the fact is, that if you made up a box that would fit the body of, say, the E-M1 II, you would find that the GX8 fitted that box too. Much like my G6 pretty much fitted the same box as the E-PL3, when it was ready to work with a lens and the VF2 fitted.

The GX8 is a premier camera, but at a couple of years old, right now it is priced pretty similarly to the G85 and can be bought for even less used.