Based on sales is not the whole of the issue. Cameras still being used regularly is harder to measure.
Another method of measurement is the popularity of forums on dpreview. If this is any measure worth accepting then M4/3 is still alive and kicking quite strongly.
In the five years I’ve been an Olympus cult member, the price of used Olympus gear has been so strong that it’s likely my $100 PL-1 and kit lens is now worth $125 instead of $100.
This is due to brand image.
The typical Nikon or Canon sleeps in a drawer 90% of it’s life. Sony and Fuji, perhaps only 80%. People actually use Panasonic and Pentax cameras more than they park them.
To be an amateur photographer, one must have a camera slung around their neck on a strap.
Look at your Olympus camera and lens.
That’s a piece of camera strap jewelry that takes photographs.
The lenses you’ll buy for it actually never lose any value because another Olympus cult member will snap them up at the small discount over Olympus refurbished price the day you post them online.
The bodies actually don’t lose much value either unless you buy an M1, which are about $1,500 new and half that if the model before the current one.
If you paid X dollars for your used gear five years ago, it’s still with X dollars now.
