The "level of vitriol" is what gets to me. I have just decided to give up going to mu-43, because it seems to have been taken over by that sort of gear-head. There has to be a "better", a winner and loser. I find it coounter-productive and exhausting. I may stop by now and then and post on the dog and bird threads, which are wonderful. I don't know why, for instance, I can go to Amin's Leica forum and talk about my ancient lenses and get comments that take the lens for what it is and offer insights and information about it instead of damning it because it is not the latest $8000 piece of glass out of Solms. Most of the discussion here on PL is like that too. But mu-43 seems to have been taken over by DP review forum types -- at the very time that DP forums have gotten more civilized.
The bile being spilled over the new Pen F frankly disgusts me. It's a camera. I don't care if the 20MP panasonic has better video. I don't shoot video. The level of senseless competitiveness over at mu-43 has gotten out of hand. I used to enjoy the site, including the gear discussion, but it seems more and more to be a bully pulpit for --well -- bullies.