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Update: "How do people find micro four thirds for wildlife photography?" (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/m43@lemmy.ca
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6 months ago, I asked about m43 for wildlife photography (https://lemmyverse.link/lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/5660675)

Today, I use an OM-1 MkII, and it is easily the best birding/wildlife camera I've ever owned. Would absolutely recommend it!

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[–] 2 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I'm glad to hear you're enjoying it. I used to shoot Fuji and sold up and bought the OM-1 II. Just having a camera with good autofocus is so refreshing. I loved and hated my X-T1, much as I loved and hated my favourite lens for the system, the 35mm 1.4.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 3 months ago (2 children)

    When I first got in to photography (just when digital was gaining ground over film), I pretty much fell in love with the Olympus approach, because they were doing things no one else was doing. I moved to Canon because it was just too hard to find Olympus lenses in Australia. I never loved Canon stuff though. So I was glad to return to Olympus (or OM Systems) and find that they still scratched the itch they had back when I first started. And the lenses are easier to find now (though still harder to find that Canon, Nikon etc)

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  • [–] 0 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Glad it still scratches that itch, and that you weren't put off a few years back by the response to your last post. All the doom mongering about the death of M43 almost made me go Nikon when I was buying into a new system this year, but the OM-1 II just felt right. I had no idea Olympus/OM gear was hard to find in Australia, I wonder why?

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 3 months ago

    I had no idea Olympus/OM gear was hard to find in Australia, I wonder why?

    I mean, that was decades ago. Digital wasn't the only camera market, and Olympus was a small part of the larger camera market, so it was a niche within a niche. We could get lenses, but they took a long time to arrive, were over priced, and sometimes simply weren't stocked.

    These days, they're harder to find simply because Olympus/OM is a small player in the digital camera market. There's still plenty to go around, but sometimes, only in small numbers, because of the limited market for them. But online ordering is easier now, so it's pretty much a non issue overall.

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