Humansvillian

Currently listed $375 refurbished black OMD M5 IIs are great bargains. $880 titanium M5 IIs are ridiculous. JIP needs to hire just one good American camera nut that can navigate our market.

Some fantastic candid documentary shots can be taken with an Oly screen flipped up. The photographer maintains eye contact with the subject. He does not have to raise the camera. Then when the ...

I’ve owned several PL1s, the P3 and P5, PM1 and PM2, and an M10 and M5II. For duplication of what your old Nikon film camera could do, it’s impossible to beat the photographs of a PL1 in sunlit ...

E. Cog-Willougby’s father or mother, one or the other, was made deathly sick at an Arnica church picnic eating coleslaw that was tainted with E. coli. Although they eventually survived, it was said ...

Edgar Buchanan, back when he was alive, was a reliable source of information about E. Cog-Willougby. Now Lori Metcalf might be the last living link , to her past. But whatever became of her more ...

She’d nearly certainly have to have died by now, as she’d be well over a hundred, and it was somewhat reliably reported she died, maybe thirty or forty years ago. Her more beautiful sister was ...

It was suspected at first, and later confirmed, that E. Cog Willouby and her more beautiful sister were estranged from each other, and some claim it was over a man. The name Hugo Rumbold, was ...

Those of us that knew her, or more likely her more beautiful sister, never knew just what the E. stood for. She was a younger contemporary of Zoe Akins, and some hints remain she was more than a ...

Last April for my birthday I treated myself to a $200 used Olympus 14-150 lens. Along with my Panasonic 20mm prime and 12-40 Oly Pro it makes up my entire OMD-M5II kit. You’d love one. They only ...

She was elusive, eccentric, and some claimed she waited for a rounder that left her at the altar, and never returned. Sometimes others would report to me they’d seen her, at Caplinger Mills, or ...

I’ve carried my Olympus cameras to dozens and dozens of meetings, where somebody never fails to ask me,,,, Where did you buy that neat camera? Just remember Olympus, I say Any new one takes the ...

When I was a kid my Daddy’s good looking cousin’s rich banker husband (who owned an expensive rangefinder camera) traded every year for a brand new four door Lincoln convertible with suicide doors. ...

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I’ve noticed that the vast majority of the folks on this forum have cut their photography teeth on real, interchangeable lens cameras and one day discovered Micro Four Thirds. I spent a lifetime ...

A large Japanese company just spent a lot of yen to keep peddling Olympus cameras. There’s nothing wrong with Olympus a new PL-1 20mp camera won’t fix. it should be a simple, cheap box you can ...

i wonder how many of those $6,500 lenses will be sold? I would imagine, the purpose of the lens is mainly to sell a bunch of  Olympus camera bodies to folks who dream that someday, they’ll buy that ...

Our little county is one of the highest per thousand covid 19 hot spots in the western world.  We’ve had a thousand cases in a county of fifteen thousand, and about a half per cent (75 cases) per ...

My long suffering OMD M5 II was new in 2017, then serviced for an intermittent failure to recognize lens (twice) in late 2019, then replaced with a refurbished camera when the same intermittent ...

The size of the PL-1 is actually a bit larger than some later cameras like the PL3-6 and even the PL-6-10 and OMD M10 series. I think it's the best handling camera of any I've ever picked up and ...