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Olympus software has to be the worst software that I've seen in many years. I am always a bit apprehensive to use any of it, and avoid it as much as possible.

The reason that I bought the EM5iii is that it is basically the EM1ii inside a smaller EM5 body. But for birding? Yeah, get the EM1ii for the better grip ... that really does make a difference.

Canon has not been predictable with their lenses; even the expensive L lenses have had some dud designs. In general , the consumer Canon lenses are not worth owning (but they are reasonably light ...

It depends. What is it about the GX1 that you like? (1) The most obvious replacement is the GX9. It is better than the GX1 in almost every possible way, except that it is larger.

Your initial review closely mirrors my own experience with it. I think it's a solid camera, that could have made a much bigger market impact had it come a bit earlier, but for me it will work ...

The Pleica 45mm does fine with portraits, but that is probably its weakest showing. Both Panasonic (42.5mm) and Oly (45mm) make both compact (f1.7-1.8) and gigantic (f1.2) lenses for portraits, ...

I have the Pleica 45mm f2.8, and it is a wonderful lens. For macro work. I am hard-pressed to explain why I like the lens, since it seems to fail in every measurebation category, but the pictures ...

This is a reasonable point, and it would be helpful if all manufacturers provided T stop values in addition to F stop values. However, the T stop values approach the F stop values, so in the ...

There's nothing inherently expensive about the sensor. It mostly uses long-since-amortized 15 year old process technology, other than the BSI and stacking. I don't know how the BSI is built, since ...

With caveats, yes: (1) Learn to use the e-shutter by default, because of the potential for shutter shock. (2) No PDAF, ...

This seems to be how it works. Panasonic and/or Olympus come with reqs, Sony modifies an existing design to meet those new reqs, then puts that design on the shelf and that product onto their ...

Leica M uses an off-the-shelf Sony sensor design. It used to use an off-the-shelf STM design. Leica L still apparently uses an off-the-shelf STM design. Olympus uses all off-the-shelf Sony sensor ...

Give one modern example of a company using a non-off-the-shelf sensor design. Every single Sony, Nikon, Panasonic, Olympus, Fuji, Leica, Pentax, etc. camera has been built around an off-the-shelf ...

It should, theoretically, be 4x noisier. Reality may be slightly different, but 4x noisier than the brilliantly good A9 sensor (for example) should be plenty good for me. And for 99% of...

Lots of options, but hard to beat the Samyang and Laowa fish-eyes (plus de-fishing) for price, size, and quality at wide angles. My favorites are the Voigt 10.5mm f0.95 and the Kowa 8.5mm f2.8 ...

^ marketing nonsense Olympus may give some reqs to Sony, but they are buying off-the-shelf. Just like every other manufacturer.

BSI is just a better way to wire a sensor. Now that BSI is possible, there should never be a non-BSI sensor ever again. Not doing BSI is like having surgeons implant cataracts in people. Just silly. ...

To the best of my knowledge, which is admittedly a few years out of date, all of the camera companies are using ARM as their design supplier (so probably contracting through one of the 3 big indy ...

> "300/4 on mft is equivalent to 600/8 on ff, so most ff lenses are faster and cheaper to boot"

Equivalent for framing and depth of field, but not for total light....

At any given generation of sensors (and acknowledging that the "generation" may be staggered over a period of years, where the tech tends to show up first in cell phone sensors and work its way up...