Do you own one of these cameras?
Let’s see, I’ve owned about 6 Pl-1 (gave to me kids 4) 1 PL2, 2 PL3, 2 PL5, 1 PL6, 1 PM1, 2 PM2, 2 P3, 1 P5, 2 M10, 1M5 II, 1 M1.1, and today I own an M1.2 that cost$1500 new in 2016 worth $500 today.
Except for the ones I gave all my kids I’ve broke even or even made a little buying each one used and flipping them when I upgraded.
The new OM3 is warrantied five years instead of two. It accepts Micro Four Thirds lenses and I own a bunch. With an adapter it accepts all old 35mm lenses ever made and I own a sackful, an obscene amount.
Olympus cameras (now OM systems) are as addictive as fine old ancient sauce laden Algerian briar.
Understand, either of the two PL-1 cameras I kept, or my M1.2, take just as fantastic photos in good light (where you could have used film) as the new OM3.
Buy one of these and put on the Louvin Brothers.
Nothing, not even women, booze, cigarettes or Marxman pipes, hooks you harder than that first Olympus MFT camera.
Seriously, they have a cult following among hard core amateur photographers.
The image quality from any interchangeable lens camera made by any name brand has exceeded film since the first Canon Digital Rebel in 2003.
But my best M1.2 has just a few less gizmos and bells and whistles than rhe OM3.
If you’ve ever owned an Olympus camera before, when you get one of the little gadgets (they are all small by comparison to full frame cameras) then two magical things happen.
First, the worst and first ones have three stops of internal stabilization.
My M1.2 from 2016 has six stops of stabilization I can shoot black cats at midnight in a coal mine.
The newest ones like the OM3 have a ridiculous 7 1/2 stops.
Second, you get a lens holder for this lens:
Once you are just hopelessly addicted to any Oly camera, you’ll buy this lens.
Using the built in doubler, you can take an $80 camera with an $80 lens and duplicate the images of this lens:
If you don’t want hooked don’t take that first sip.
