I had a brief fling with an Olympus a couple of years ago. It was fine as a point-and-shoot, at least as good as my iPhone. The kit zoom lens was decent. What I wanted, though, was to use it with viewfinder and to use it shooting in manual mode with other-brand lenses like Pentax and Leica (via adapter of course). The buttons/menus etc were not designed with manual shooting in mind. At least I could never figure them out. The viewfinder was too much of a downgrade from a good optical viewfinder. I sold it, use my iPhone or WG-3 as my point-and-shoot.
I don’t know that there is anything about mirrorless chasing me away (except maybe the small sensor), but I haven’t found much to attract me to them either. stan On Sep 10, 2014, at 12:50 PM, Collin Brendemuehl <[email protected]> wrote: > When we were in Philly I saw far more mirrorless than DSLRs in use. > After getting home I was chatting with a local store owner who found that > odd since mirrorless sales are only a fraction of the market. Maybe they > were all in one place at one time? > Then last weekend we were in Wisconsin and Illinois. (Fresh curds ... yum.) > Had a good conversation with a pro who shoots for stock. > He uses (another brand) DSLR for action and a Sony mirrorless for general > use. He likes the size/weight for carrying around, and the good lenses > don't hurt. > > So I wonder ... is it just the form/shape that chases people away from these > cameras? > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
