I really like compact mirrorless cameras, and currently use a Panasonic Lumix GM5. At the time I bought it a few years ago, it was the smallest interchangeable lens mirrorless camera on the market (bar of soap size body). It has a solid feeling mostly metal body and the quality of construction seems great IMO. Panasonic makes a Leica that looks almost identical, so I consider this a poor man's Leica. I suppose the Leica has different software or some other tweaks, but I don't really know. There might be something smaller now. It uses the micro 4/3 system lenses. I have a couple of primes that are nice for cycling. One complaint is that the stock lens it comes with, a 12-32mm, has to be rotated about an 1/8 of a turn to be in shooting mode--if you shoot while riding, this is a problem. For that reason, I purchased a couple of primes: a Lumix 20mm 1.7 and an Olympus Zuiko 45mm 1.8. The 20mm lens is good for all around landscape and street shots and cycling stuff--Zuiko 45mm is excellent for portraits.
I've also owned the first generation Fuji x100. I loved the quality of the images and the film simulation modes, but the large size of the body and really bad UI (not the manual controls, but the digital settings). If I was buying again today, I might consider the Lumix LX100 2 with the non-interchangable zoom. I find I don't change my lense as much as I thought I would. Paul Brodek is really up on the Lumix line and cameras in general so I hope he weighs in. Cheers, Scott On Sunday, June 7, 2020 at 12:49:31 PM UTC-7, Deacon Patrick wrote: > > I've no longer a mobile phone and thus no longer have the incorporated > camera and it's happy ability to take a burst of photos after a set delay > of 20 seconds or so. Kai kindly recommended Sony, and in my research I > ended up finding the simplicity of mirrorless, which presumably means > heartier (I'll test that!), then, in looking for older models that do what > I want so I don't pay for all the latest bells and whistles, I found > Olympus' Pen E-PL8, which is long in the tooth and thus happily under $300 > with lens for a step uyp from a point and shoot or adventure camera. I have > it coming, along with a better tripod and a leather case. I plan to carry > it in my XS Saddlesack handlebar bag. > > Curious what folks going digital, who are into photography are > doing/using. I love the simplicity of the mobile phone, but miss the > qualities and settings of a higher end camera. It seems there are the point > and shoots (not many as mobile phones do this), adventure cameras, which > are a step up but still feature shy without spending a fortune, and then > the higher end cameras (recommendations for ones that are weather proof and > heartier?). > > What do you like, not like about what you are using? How do you haul it, > use it, etc? > > With abandon, > Patrick > > www.MindYourHeadCoop.org > www.DeaconPatrick.org > www.CatholicHalos.org > www.ShepherdsandHalos.org > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/5a807867-7ca1-4f1f-bd6b-50e42539a7b0o%40googlegroups.com.
