burritosandbeer

For what its worth the lower end pen bodies still give excellent results. For the light run and gun a Pen EPL6 is my go to, with the panasonic 14-42 PZ, and sometimes a 25mm f1.7 and 45-150 in ...

I should probably add that I dont go out marketing myself, requesting business, signing up clients, thats where the hobby becomes "work" to me. I've considered it before, but usually its so and so ...

I dont know of many other hobbies where I can get paid doing something I enjoy, that others tell me I am good at. I do occasional paying jobs to help pay for the hobby  :-)

depends on what I am doing. The Pen EPL-6 is often pocketed with a 14-42pz, and a 45-150 in another pocket. The G7 due to its added size usually rides in a backpack.  Recently I did a kayak trip ...

Maybe thats why I like mine, I'm usually running it wide open in aperture priority.  I've stopped it down manually, but then its still in aperture priority mode,

I agree, but I like something wide for landscapes...

I bought the Panasonic 25mm f1.7 almost two years back, and it's one of my favorites.  Great decision that I have never had a cause to regret.

A favorite shot from the trip that shows the case on the kayak.

I say option 4, but add a fast, light standard prime 17-25mm. I just finished a kayak trip to isle royale national park, and regret not having something wider than 14mm. I had a Panasonic 14-42 ...

So when I went to Maui a few years back all I brought was a cell phone, and I horribly regret it. If you are doing any surfing, or want to capture surfers, whales, etc, longer MM is a good thing.  ...

I'm partial to 5 and 6, they make a nice contrast set. Not a big fan of 7,8,9 as I never loved the "let me put somehting infront of my model and distract the viewer" mindset.  Less the case with 8 ...

You know why people do so much firearms training right?  If you want to be able to do the job right, fast, and under pressure, you train the hell out of it. No one rises to the occasion, they only ...

I'm in the same boat.   I want an upgrade,  but $600 for the g85, vs 1200 for the g95, it's hard to justify

Honestly I'm concerned that the price point of it is just too close to the G9 which shows a lot of advantages over the G95 at least for someone who isnt interested in the kit lens. I would love to ...

I don't have good examples with me, I did my comparison nearly two years ago. Let me see if I can find a few example images though as its a fair question.  Most of what I looked at is out of ...

From what I've seen,  it depends on the lens.  That though speaks to the advantages of an ILC. I can add lenses to my m43 camera to achieve better results for the given scenario, a fixed lens ...

So, I looked hard at the bridge cameras before buying my G7 originally.  What tipped me over the edge into M43 was looking closely at the pics on DP review and on the forums from users.  That and ...

I think one person here had it right. Most of the tiny m43 bodies are all about the new shooter, doing something more than their cell phone.  Most of us want the small "Second camera" or even ...

In my neck of the woods, the local Best buy does carry Panasonic and Olympus, but they push the hell outta sony.  I suspect Sony has a deal with them to push their cameras its so aggressive. As ...

Maybe I wasnt fair, but it turned me off.  I find less noise with the mechanical shutter at least on my G7, and I often run faster than 1/500 using fast lenses for shallow DOF (25mm f/1.7) and in ...