Larry, you seem to have forgotten. When we met, earlier this year, I had my OM-D EM1 on me. I think I have it for like 5 or 6 years now. It is a good camera, has all the controls and looks like a small DSLR. These you can find really cheap these days. You can also look for EM1 mk2 - it is a bit bigger and improves in a number of areas over my EM1. Most current is EM1 mk3, which is the flagship of the Olympus range. I used some Panasonic cameras briefly, and I quite liked them, but because it was brief, I couldn't suggest them - don't have enough information.
Compared to cameras with bigger sensors, both older (16 MP EM1) and modern (20MP EM1 mk2/mk3) cameras will exhibit some noise, even at base ISO. Nothing deal breaking, but it is there. In terms of ergonomics - they are very convenient (I did not need too much time at all to get used to my camera) but different from what Pentax offers (at least as much as I remember from the original K5). There are second tier cameras - EM5, EM5 mk2 and EM5 mk3. They are smaller, lighter, but still look like smaller still DSLRs. Most modern EM5 mk3 is very close in function to EM1 mk2, albeit with some differences caused by the smaller form factor. Did not try these, but they're probably cheaper. One last bit, if you decide to own any of these cameras, please buy at least 1 spare battery, though from my memories of our taking pictures together, you would be better off buying 3 spare batteries. They are really cheap and off brand batteries are not too bad. I have one Olympus spare and two off brand ones (Wasabi power) - all is good. Boris On Sun, Nov 22, 2020 at 4:34 AM Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > Today the friend I had loaned my u4/3 camera to returned it. There are a > lot of things to like about micro 4/3, but using that camera is pretty > miserable. It’s an oly E PL1, doesn’t have a viewfinder and trying to make > adjustments on it is terribly awkward. However, I can see a lot of > advantages to u43 over even my K3 when I’m going for a bike ride. > > I know that there are a few folks on this list that also have u4/3 systems > I’m curious about the most cost effective u4/3 body that handles like a > real camera, and how much it would set me back. I expect that it would be > something used to keep an eye out for in the usual places. It’s not that I > have the money for one, but it’s generally better to start looking sooner > rather than later. > > My impression is that the OMDs are some of the nicer ones to use. > > -- > Larry Colen > [email protected] > > > > > -- > 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. > -- Boris -- 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.
