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roypanos

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  1. <p>Well, this probably isn't what you want to hear but... <br> I've had an EM5 since they were first released. I have no interest in using still cameras for video, having, in a previous existence, shot video professionally using dedicated broadcast standard cameras. So that aspect's a mystery to me.<br> However I will say that the EM5 makes for a small system, which I like, and the files it produces are remarkably good for a sensor this size. The ergonomics of the camera however are simply abominable. Just about everything is poor. Firstly the firmware which is an exercise in bad design to a degree that one would have thought nearly impossible. Then there are the buttons. I have small hands but they are too small, and too numb - particularly the "joystick set". Just moving the focus box around the VF is an exercise in frustration. I've never encountered any similar consumer device that's in an unwanted mode almost every time I pick it up - it's just too easy to accidentally disturb a control.<br> The af is pretty terrible too, at least for anyone who has experience mostly with DSLRs. Not surprising really but when using (in my case) the Panasonic 100-300 lens you're likely to miss far more shots than you get. A wiildlife system it isn't.<br> I'm stuck with it as I have jumped off the continual "upgrade" merry-go-round a couple of years ago. I won't be getting back on any time soon as I no longer earn a living with any kind of camera. The delusion that new equipment will turn our efforts into works of art is a delusion assiduously cultivated by the industry. I tend to find that what I point the camera at is the prime determinant of the result.</p>
  2. <p>I bought a cheapo adaptor when I first got the EM5. Supposedly it was one of those which enables aperture adjustment of G lenses. Crude doesn't even begin to describe it. A great way to damage expensive gear does.<br> In any case after b*ggering about with AIS lenses for a while I bought a few native primes. The Oly 45, Panasonic 20 and even the Panasonic 14 just defeat any sense in using non-native lenses with an adaptor, no matter how well built. There are so many good MFT lenses available of ll kinds I just don't understand why anyone would hamper themselves with anything else (and believe me I have lots of non-native lenses of all kinds.)</p>
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