What would Asian and European women think?

gary0319 wrote:

Sergey Borachev wrote:

gary0319 wrote:

Sergey Borachev wrote:

Tom Caldwell wrote:

I might wonder why women form any part of the world would wish to have a camera tool that was any different from a man with a similar level of interest in photography.

I was led by previous posts to believe that they, or the ones being targeted, are not exactly on the same level in terms of interest, as men, or that other things like camera style, shape or colour of the faux skin maters more than phototaking features and performance.

Or maybe the Pen is a nice blend of both quality image making (my PL7 produced some stunning images that my iPhone could not match), and fashion/style that is also important to them. Not all cameras need be black chunks.

Maybe, but it would be up to those buyers to judge fashion/style, not me. I myself do not see much difference between these two new cameras in fashion/style, especially when compared to all the other features, performance, and price differences

Yet you make note of the Fuji having a mic input. I cannot imagine a nice female attending a garden party in a fashionable frock, toting a microphone. Maybe us men like to have big honking gear with a port to plug in a beer cooler. And.....maybe we’re just men.

Not impossible, like in a school when her child sings or plays piano? Besides, the husband may have to carry the mike and tripod.

My own experience says that they are either smartphone or travel zoom users and not very keen in all the photography details (the majority), or, they tote big camera lenses (DSLRs) that their husband bought for the family, or, they are as or more serious as the average male hobbyists with serious FF DSLRS. I can't remember any women carrying such in-between cameras, i.e. serious compacts that cost so much as the e-PL9 or x-t20 etc and yet not exactly so good in IQ or in value as the FF.