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Used camera, worth buying?

Started Dec 12, 2017 | Discussions thread
Cagey75
Cagey75 Senior Member • Posts: 1,347
Re: Used camera, worth buying?
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Marty Stenford wrote:

Hi M43 friends,

i'd like to ask your opinion about my next purchase. I own a GH4, amazing camera for video but just good for stills (the gh5 for what i saw is really really good at both, big improvment in still).
Now i would like to get another camera just for still, i do not want to upgrade to GH5 (at least not now) because i want the dedicated still camera body to be more portable, so i'm really oriented to the OMD series from Olympus.

Here in italy i've found few OMD EM5 at a price around 300-350Euro (350-400$)...do you think it is worth the price or you think i should go for a new OMD-EM10 or similiar?
I mean, IQ for sure is slightly improved in 5 years but is the price difference worth?
OMD EM5II is amazingly beautiful (my favourite) but is still fitting a 16Mp sensor...if i have to pay more then 800$ i would like to have at least the new generation sensor, is my argument solid in your opinion?
Thank you for your suggenstions
Marty

For not much more you could get an em10 mkII, that's what I would do.  I have an em5 and it's a great little camera, but the evf sucks a bit towards the newer models.  The newer models should have slightly better tech, better AF and the em10 mkII will have slightly better IBIS afaik.

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