E-PL8 vs E-P5 in 2018?

Denisio Fabuloso wrote:

Of all the digital cameras I've owned this past decade, the EP-5 seems to be the only one for which I struggle to find a compelling reason to upgrade. Save for the wheel issue (two trips back and it finally seems resolved) it really is a design and photo tool masterpiece. Once you've set it up, it just does it's job beautifully and without fuss. Expect I'll have it as my main camera for some years to come. Would love the Pen F with it's in body EVF, but at those prices... nyahhh.

Likewise for me, the E-P5 is my "final" system camera, for now. Can't see anything else that would do things better for my simple needs.

Sure it would be nicer to have a true E-P6, the same E-P5 body but with the newest TruePic chip to get things like Live Composite working. But it must still be a tilt screen as those flippy out sideways things just do not work for me. The Pen-F doesn't do it for me as I never use EVF any more and rely on a tilted screen.

As for E-P5 new, I see that Digidirect now doesn't show them any more, they were there up until a week or two back at Oz$499.

Originally, years back, I was determined to wait until Oly came out with a global shutter camera, but soon saw that would be a very long wait. Now of course with the collapsing camera market causing manufacturers to tread very carefully and to not get very excited about wasting too many Yen/$$$ on R&D if there's going to be no long term reward.

So for me it's E-P5 forever, plus a mix of Oly, Pana and Samyang lenses.

As a side issue, I finally updated my Mode dial top.... here's the source file reduced....

1/2/3/4 for the assigned MySets and 1/2/3 reserved for a set that stays the same but used for varying light condition with 1 for good light and 3 for dark and 2 for somewhere in between. 4 reserved for fiddling, may usually be set M mode MySet for flash work.

Printed as a disk 15mm diameter on a Brother plastic tape label printer that handles up to 24mm tapes.

Regards......... Guy