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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
11-02-2018, 07:58 AM
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The Olympus OM-D E-M5. My daughter bought one last year and we compared it to my K-30 for a week, with the 14-150 and 18-135 lenses. It wasn't a controlled test, but night time pictures around a campfire were better on my K-30 and the lag in the M5's viewfinder is definitely noticeable. Neither camera is particularly good with fast moving objects, even though the Olympus has a higher frame rate. Never compared video, but I'm sure the M5 is better and it is quite a bit smaller as a body and lens package than the K-30. If someone doesn't like to hold and carry a DSLR, I think the M5 is an excellent choice.
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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
11-01-2018, 09:57 PM
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It's weaker in low light and its viewfinder is inferior. It's AF is on par with my K-30, so probably a little worse than the K-3. Probably not as good a value proposition as a mid-level APS-C system, but if you are looking for something more compact, it feels and handles great and there is an excellent lens selection for it. If you find Olympus' system attractive, you can buy into it and not feel like you had to sacrifice anything. Most people that actually try it out are pleasantly surprised.
There are virtually no new ILC customers, anywhere. Every buyer of the new big mirrorless cameras has already owned at least a couple of more conventional cameras. If you want to sell a new camera model today, it has to be different enough to make existing users want it for novelty, not to do something they can't do with their current equipment. The other thing camera users want is to stand out from the crowd (even though the crowd is nowhere as big as it used to be), so in time some people will come back to m43 and marvel at how compact it is. As long as Olympus doesn't panic and blow a bunch of money trying to grow their business when there aren't any high potential markets to target, they can stay in the m43 business forever with minimal sales. I could probably say the same about Pentax, although with 3 formats to sell, they have more potential than Olympus.
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