A good solid professional camera, fantastic for stills and good for video.
This is a top-of-the range camera, capable of amazing pictures even on my first shoot, but as expected, it has a lot of features that are only needed occasionally, and it will take a while to get to know them, and so far I have only used a fraction of its facilities.
The Micro four-thirds technology means it is considerably smaller, lighter and cheaper than a 35mm camera with similar performance. The lenses are less than half the weight for similar performance! Although it is a 20MP sensor, it can use the image stabilizer to take four pictures 1/2 a pixel apart and merge them to get 80MP pictures.!
No doubt there are situations where fill frame would be better, but they are obscure corner cases like taking very high resolution stills in poor light without a tripod. For me this is outweighed by the ability to take pictures with less preparation - meaning more valuable pictures in a shorter session.
Remote operation from a smart phone is well implemented and extremely useful.
I bought it to take professional stills, and it is everything I could want for that, but I do intend to also use the video facilities in the future, which are also top-of-the-range.
The biggest let-down is that Olympus support for Linux is very poor.
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