Jock Elliott
Hall of Famer
- Location
- Troy, NY
It wasn’t long after I joined Serious Compacts that someone said (and I forget who, or I would happily give credit) that their philosophy was “take a camera everywhere and see what happens.”
So I decided to adopt that philosophy, and very quickly I encountered this on a trip to the supermarket
This, of course, only confirmed the notion of taking a camera everywhere and seeing what happens. The photo was taken with an Olympus D550 clamshell camera.
Okay, fast forward nearly six years. I now have five cameras: a Canon G12, a Sony HX400V superzoom, Fuji XP90 rugged camera, and OMD EM5 and EM5 II with 12-50 EZ, 17mm, 14-150 II, and 14-42 EZ.
I bought the OMD EM5 with 12-50 because I had a dust-spot-on-the-sensor problem with both my Panasonic FZ200 and LX100. I got rid of them because I couldn’t figure out how to prevent additional hundred-dollar trips to the camera repair shop. The OMD EM5, with its automatic sensor cleaning and environmental sealing, would prevent these repairs. And it did.
There’s just one problem: I don’t carry it. I bought more lenses, thinking that would help. I bought another body (so I wouldn’t have to change lenses in the field). I loved each new “solution” for a while and then stopped carrying them.
So what camera or cameras actually go out the door with me? The G12 (mostly on trips to the store) or the HV400V (on walks where we might encounter wildlife).
Oh, don’t get me wrong: the OMD EM5 and OMD EM5 II are lovely, beautiful cameras that operate exactly as advertised, and they deliver the goods when I use them . . . which isn’t often.
So this leaves me with a quandary: should I hang on to the OMDs in the hopes that my interest in them will be re-kindled or that I get an assignment where they are actually needed, or should I sell them while they still have some value (even though I will probably take a considerable beating from what I paid)?
Advice and counsel gratefully accepted.
Cheers, Jock
So I decided to adopt that philosophy, and very quickly I encountered this on a trip to the supermarket
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This, of course, only confirmed the notion of taking a camera everywhere and seeing what happens. The photo was taken with an Olympus D550 clamshell camera.
Okay, fast forward nearly six years. I now have five cameras: a Canon G12, a Sony HX400V superzoom, Fuji XP90 rugged camera, and OMD EM5 and EM5 II with 12-50 EZ, 17mm, 14-150 II, and 14-42 EZ.
I bought the OMD EM5 with 12-50 because I had a dust-spot-on-the-sensor problem with both my Panasonic FZ200 and LX100. I got rid of them because I couldn’t figure out how to prevent additional hundred-dollar trips to the camera repair shop. The OMD EM5, with its automatic sensor cleaning and environmental sealing, would prevent these repairs. And it did.
There’s just one problem: I don’t carry it. I bought more lenses, thinking that would help. I bought another body (so I wouldn’t have to change lenses in the field). I loved each new “solution” for a while and then stopped carrying them.
So what camera or cameras actually go out the door with me? The G12 (mostly on trips to the store) or the HV400V (on walks where we might encounter wildlife).
Oh, don’t get me wrong: the OMD EM5 and OMD EM5 II are lovely, beautiful cameras that operate exactly as advertised, and they deliver the goods when I use them . . . which isn’t often.
So this leaves me with a quandary: should I hang on to the OMDs in the hopes that my interest in them will be re-kindled or that I get an assignment where they are actually needed, or should I sell them while they still have some value (even though I will probably take a considerable beating from what I paid)?
Advice and counsel gratefully accepted.
Cheers, Jock