On 6/29/2022 3:35 PM, DZDub wrote:
DHL brought my mZ 100-400 from Map Camera in Japan a day earlier than
expected. When does that happen? Feeling a good vibe.
International sales from Japan seem to have worked out well for me again.
The lens looks perfect and shoots beautifully. So happy.
It is definitely a beast. Marginally broader and heavier than the DZ
50-200. I'm a bit surprised, despite the warnings on all sides.
Everything about m43 has been anything but micro so far.
On 6/30/2022 4:58 AM, DZDub wrote:
<>I need to study how to get small with m43. No rush.
It all started small . . .
My first µ4\3 camera, by a few days, was an E-PL1, quite a small, light camera. The later E-PM1 and PM2 were even
smaller and lighter; the PM2 quite a capable camera.
The disappearance over time of the E-Px series and E-PMx series has consolidated their EVF-less offerings into one
series, the E-PLx bodies. They continue to live, at least for now, but the last one not an effort at style is the E-PL7.
Again, the E-M5 is not a particularly large body, and the E-M10 series are
quite petite.
Panasonic took a shot at small and light, with the tiny GM1, followed by the not much bigger GM5, which somehow manages
to squeeze a usable EVF in. But there's been no follow-up. My lens collection migrated from mostly Oly to mostly Panny
for the OIS, for use on the GM5.
I suggest all this indicates that people weren't buying the little ones in
sufficient quantity to keep them going.
The Panny GX9 is smaller, lighter and, for me, ergonomically much better than the E-M1 series and OM-1. But it seems
there is no successor coming, and the OM-1 has leapt past them in capabilities that matter to me. Oh well.
Oly tested the "big and heavy meant PRO (and big profit margins)" waters with the E-M1X. Steep discounts suggest that
didn't work, while the regular M-1 series seems to work for the market as serious and worthwhile. Rumors are that there
is an OM-5 for Fall, if OMS can get their supply chain troubles tamed.
The funnest, silliest tiny µ4/3 camera is the Air-01. It's original, kinda amazing, and pretty stupid, all at once. It's
tiny, and light, with no flat surface to rest on - with on IS. And the natural Oly lens for it, the diminutive, power
extending 12-42 EZ lens, with self open-close lens cap, also has no IS. The actual perfect lens is the Panny 12-32
designed for the GMs, with OIS somehow stuffed in its tiny body.
There are some pix of various of these cameras here.
<http://galleries.moosemystic.net/MooseFoto/index.php?gallery=Tech/Oly_Pens>
and here. <http://zone-10.com/tope2/main.php?g2_itemId=12057>
P.T.M.I. Moose
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