View single post by highlander

Posted: Wed Oct 18th, 2017 06:16

Joined:	Wed Jul 25th, 2012
Location:	Scotland, United Kingdom
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I have never had an issue with size. Weight yes. I moved to Fuji to reduce weight more than size, and then moved to Olympus which I found uncomfortably small. I loved the reduced weight, but I struggled to get a decent grip of the camera. In difficult terrain, and swapping lenses in the wet, you don't want fiddling about. Using gloves was impossible, and this meant I was going to struggle in winter.

I think the designers of mirrorless have got it wrong, the issue isn't size as much as weight. Small cameras are fine, but there is a limit to what is actually practical and that is the size of our hands and how they flex when in use. I am a relatively small female and I don't have large hands so heavens knows how some 6ft blokes get on with little digital OM cameras. I think Olympus know this because the top end one, the OM1, is significantly larger than the OM10 and OM5 bodies.

The Pro end lenses are also balanced to match that body, and again are larger. Still smaller than many Canon/Nikon/Pentax offerings of course, but I couldn't use an OM10 its just too fiddly.

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