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    Aug 25, 2020 4 minutes

    Olympus feels right

    Brilliant, just as I find the camera system I’m really happy with, Olympus announces it’s being sold to an equity firm. Now admittedly that doesn’t mean the end of Olympus, and stakeholders are trying to put a positive spin on it, but it’s not really something you’d put in an advert to encourage people to buy your product. And presumably this puts a crimp in the development roadmap – after all, streamlining your business hardly screams R&D investment.

    Micro Four Thirds seems to always get a bashing in the press, with reviews inevitably ending in ‘a great camera, but compared to full frame...’.

    I’ve had a full frame Pentax

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