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(1) Had a quote for repairing the AF button -- necessitating replacing entire top plate as Olympus doesnt furnish bits and pieces.  Was 200GBP inclusive of 2-way shipping.......and a month+ long wait ...

Warning/Preface:  This is a bloggy post in the vein of those i myself dont enjoy reading. Bought over XMAS '13.  Quickly became my most favored camera amongst a pretty popular selection of cameras. ...

perhaps for a beginner theres some value in that.  but even then, its not universal. for me, when presented with a scene, asking oneself "how can i exploit this scene at wide angle or at long ...

atleast on em1, i find it balances better fore-aft.  i would also say its made for that camera in specific. i like the ruggedness of the build, and the weather resistance. 2mm also matters quite a ...

otherwise why do stuff like this keep popping up... do yall daydream about fuji and pentax and etc?

So what does that have to do with "quality?" Or newspaper?

You brought it up. <-- Maybe you didnt understand that.

As you are someone who rides the "xxx equipment is good enough" train... where do you place the stop on equipment dependency? with certain manufacturers? with certain formats?

I didn't say your...

>Absolutely nothing wrong with the image quality whatsoever. I shot news and sports for a newspaper for many years using nothing but 4/3 cameras<

thats not saying much, as newspaper print is about...

we know the human brain can interpret a sense of depth from shadows, geometry/vanishing points... which can be conveyed in painted medium, not just photography... so i see its not specific to ...

....be it color, global contrast, sharpening, brightness, etc in fact for this photo i would focus on a reductive/simplication approach - the complete opposite.  crop away the corners.  lower the ...

there is global and local luminosity, color [distribution, variation, saturation, etc], texture / frequency distribution , general shapes and form balance, etc i am not a train enthusiast, but one ...

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tried it on a friends camera. what i dont like is powered zoom.  i like cranking my own. max aperture also closes significantly at length.  on the long end its f6.3 which is a far cry from f2.8 ... ...

by "focus" i mean people'ss misguided over-fixation on DOF as the holy grail of photographic tool. and by "people" i mean largely the novice and the forum-warriors, typically who just splashed ...

used the rx1 voraciously after immediate purchase (had to justify that 3k+ pricetag!) but then it sat on the shelf for circa 2 years before i sold it out of neglect +best built camera ive held. ...

camera shoots at native iso (200) and then pulls down the exposure by 1 stop.

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