vincechu
Veteran
Hi everyone,
I've decided to move back to micro four thirds after a long spell with my Pentax gear, because I'm fed up of missing photo opportunities from not having a camera on me and also I just want something small and light - everytime I use my canonet or LX5 I feel liberated.
So I just needed some other peoples opinions on my gear selection, budget being £2000GBP. I shoot a little bit of everything, travel, casual portraits, the odd bit of sport (soccer) and am getting into street photography
Currently I'm definately going for:
This leaves £1200 to spend. I'd like something with better IQ and a viewfinder for a second body and it doesn't matter if its much bigger. My brother has a GF-1 and 14-42, and we plan to share lenses, so no need for a kit lens. So what I really need help thinking about is a:
Olympus VF-2 £180, VF-3 £150, E-PL1 body £180, E-P2 body £300, E-P3 body £680 + 14-150mm £1000.
Pansonic GH2 body £650 with 14-140mm £1050, G3 £430, 14-140mm £680, GF-2 with 14mm £300. Panny cameras come with LR3 in a promo until the 31st Aug.
Thanks in advance guys, hope this doesn't set off GAS attacks too ;-)
I've decided to move back to micro four thirds after a long spell with my Pentax gear, because I'm fed up of missing photo opportunities from not having a camera on me and also I just want something small and light - everytime I use my canonet or LX5 I feel liberated.
So I just needed some other peoples opinions on my gear selection, budget being £2000GBP. I shoot a little bit of everything, travel, casual portraits, the odd bit of sport (soccer) and am getting into street photography
Currently I'm definately going for:
- 25mm Panasonic Leica (£500).
- GF2 with 14mm (costs £300 together, seperate it would be £200 body £230 lens, so might as well go for both together and keep the GF2 and 14mm on me pretty much all the time)
This leaves £1200 to spend. I'd like something with better IQ and a viewfinder for a second body and it doesn't matter if its much bigger. My brother has a GF-1 and 14-42, and we plan to share lenses, so no need for a kit lens. So what I really need help thinking about is a:
- a GH2 with 14-140mm (£1090) or the E-P3 14-150mm and VF2/3 (£1150) - so Both would use the remainder of my money.
- A cheaper, perhaps used, body with a VF. My reasoning being is that bodies always depreciate heavily and the next generation is probably just around the corner - Bought my k5 for £1100 now they're around £800, so I have to sell around £650-700, big loss .
- Buy a EVF (£150) for the GF2 and save £1050? Sounds good because it can b used on my (mum's) LX5 and brothers GF1 too.
Olympus VF-2 £180, VF-3 £150, E-PL1 body £180, E-P2 body £300, E-P3 body £680 + 14-150mm £1000.
Pansonic GH2 body £650 with 14-140mm £1050, G3 £430, 14-140mm £680, GF-2 with 14mm £300. Panny cameras come with LR3 in a promo until the 31st Aug.
Thanks in advance guys, hope this doesn't set off GAS attacks too ;-)