Just bought a new but discontinued Olympus Pen-F. The 14-42mm lens is a budget lens, so I'll get a 17mm and/or a 25mm to use as a main lens. Should arrive from Japan in about a week.
Attached FileI had to take photography classes in college, so in 1975 I bought an Olympus 35RC rangefinder. All the other students had a Canon AE1 or a Nikon F1 and looked down their nose at my little rangefinder, but guess who got the highest grade four semesters in a row.
After graduating and starting to make money, I went out and bought the new Olympus OM-1n with a 50mm prime lens. I eventually added four more lenses and the Winder 2, as well as a bunch of other Olympus accessories. I used this kit for 25 years and shot 87 million photos with it.
Always had a handful of Olympus XA, Stylus and Infinity point-and-shoot camera for the wife and kids to use.
I eventually bought an Olympus Evolt E-500 four-thirds camera. It took great photos, but it's a big bulky thing to carry around or to load in the tankbag of my motorcycle. And it's only 8MP.
At work, I had to use a Canon EOS 1Ds MkIII in the photo studio for product photos, tethered to a Mac to suck in raw TIFFs with Capture One Pro. The 24-105mm lens was versatile but not very sharp, and it produced lots of color fringing.
I had planned to buy a Micro 4/3 Olympus OM-1 or the less expensive OM-D, but other things kept coming up. Finally got around to it, and opted for the retro Pen-F after thinking about my old 35RC, and how compact it was and how easy it was to carry. I still have it.
Not my photo, but just to show how small it is.