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The 14-42 EZ is the pancake lens that is very portable and extend when being used.

Nobody here has a single clue about finance, M&A's or anything. 'Liquidate stocks' lmao (lol) You're right Olympus will continue to exist and your warranties will be fine. JIP are carving the company out ut the obligations and liabilities still exist. They don't just vanish... They've got lenses coming as announced today. Most likely what will happen is a considerable scope reduction. The E-M1X will probably be scaled back or eliminated. The E-M1 and M5 line will probably get price reductions to be competitive too...who wants an M1 when you get get CaNikon A7s with that cash.

I thought the pancake lens was a fixed angle/magnification lens. 14-42 is approximately a 3x zoom.

That doesn't necessarily mean they're going? They've carved out the business to another investor and today announced 3 new lens designs for the M43 system. My company has just done something similar and I'm still here working on the same products under a slightly different brand under the same name while the original owners are no longer majority share holders m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=3238146932895566&id=124688874241403

Fair enough, surely u can pay by credit card and get that protection? Also I am inclined to think most of these manufacturers repairs are done by a ⅓ party, I could be very wrong.

You might want to add ‘GIFT05‘ as part of your deal for an extra £5a off (angel)

Thanks for this, bud. Only cost £20 with promo credit (y)

ah soz guys, got all excited there!

The same happened to me. Was gutted as they were so much cheaper than elsewhere. Its just a tease (skeptical)

Deffo can’t buy it direct without buying a camera I’m afraid. Found that a year ago when trying to use 20% off codes

Thanks, I notice this doesn't include the move hand controllers though :(

Check very last page of results “wide neu”

Nothing decent going in the region of £175 now

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.inverse.com/article/41378-psvr-v1-vs-v2/amp

What's the difference?

I have ordered this but thinking I should cancel & wait for a price drop on the 100-300 Lumix, although I know it'll never be cheaper than this.

I have the 12-200, very handy and I'm finding that the 30mm macro is hardly used. This one is another handy lens.

Yes

Thanks ordered

Currys have price matched for those interested

Clearly you can get 50 cameras off wish.com for this lol

Yea nearly jumped on that but prefer uk warranty myself. Each to their own i guess

Nope just use code welcome at checkout

Do you sign up as a new customer and get a code emailed to you ?

There was one from german amazon for around £238 4hrs ago. Expired quickly. Heat from me tho

I feel for you. A little after the £16.67 deal, it was reduced a couple of quid further, so I re-ordered at the reduced price and asked them to cancel the previous one, cos I knew I'd get hit with customs otherwise, because my-luck[tm].

That's what mine looked like. I tried before to get the film off and swore blind that there was no film and I was messing it up further. NARRATOR: There was actually a film on it and she did eventually manage to pull it off.

High res and very wide angle field of view for a laptop camera?

Dammit! Lol. You're so right. I've got longish fingernails and even they wouldn't do it. I had to use a plastic spadger/pry tool to get it started. Ta-da!

Hi you were lucky. this is what I got, as mentioned in my previous post.

OP, would this code work across the site or just for cameras or something like that? Thanks.

Totally outdated even at launch.

Jl £399

Yup, goes for about 300 second hand

Is this worth it tho? How much is it originally

Well, drum scanned film can reach as high as 709mp and beyond as far as resolution goes, which beats out every digital camera there is. The potential for film is practically limitless compared to digital. The megapixel race reached a "good enough" level at 12mp in terms of digital, most people aren't enthusiastic enough about photography to know anything about it and a lot felt cameras reached a "good enough" point years ago. Megapixels are just marketing jargon now and aren't really important. The more important thing is your choice of lens and expert use of lighting for a high quality image. Instagram compresses every image down to 1mp no matter what so photographers are forced to make eye catching images which stop you mindlessly scrolling for a few seconds.

In essence, there is no "best" with photography. I mean, you could go all the way from a plastic junk Canon Rebel with the lens in the box up to large format on film, but image quality is always somewhat subjective. The difference of a wedding shot on film medium format vs your typical APSC camera will be noticeable to most people when they're shown a side-by-side, but a lot of couples seem to cheap out when it comes to wedding photography. Or they get their friend who picked up a Canon a few months back to shoot it for them, which never ends well. I'm not a wedding photographer myself but know a lot of them. Always interesting to hear their perspectives.

Clients want value and most photographers nowadays are not confident at shooting something without live view. You can shoot off a thousands photographs from a digital camera without any more expense than shooting off 100. The most celebrated and expensive wedding photographers today shoot medium format film, typically a Contax 645 with Fujifilm Pro 400h or Kodak Portra, but most people cannot afford these photographers. See Jose Villa for example. As a wedding photographer myself I am some expert on this matter. I would much rather shoot with my Hasselblads, but clients will not pay for the difference. The qualities of film photography cannot be so easily quantified as digital cameras, however there are certain tests such as this one that have some credence and compare different formats as well as 35mm digital cameras and medium format digital backs https://www.onlandscape.co.uk/2014/12/36-megapixels-vs-6x7-velvia 12mp digital may be comparable to 35mm but that's about it. Here's a comparison for quick reference if you are concerned only with resolution: and the crop Btw - the IQ180 is a £40,000 digital back with an 80 megapixel sensor - the Mamiya 7 is a '90s rangefinder that can be had for around £1300 on a good day and you can safely lug up a mountain :) A 4x5 camera and quality lens could be had for around £500 and will give you access to essential lens functions of tilt, shift and rise that allow you to shoot architecture and landscapes like no other camera.

is there any website that does a dxomark like comparison between analog and digital prints. I read somewhere that after 12mpix digital overtook analog pics.

so why do pro photography all use DSLR nowdays? We hired pro photographers for our wedding and all used either Canon or Sony high range DSLRs. Obviously better than my dslr (canon 80d)

And that's fair. IMHO, best price doesn't always equal a good deal, but I guess that's why the comment sections are there - for people to debate it :)

I do know this, if you've read one of my comments, my principle is basically to vote something hot if it is cheaper now than it was. Of course you can comment on the value, people post deals of 1 or 2%, the deal here 38% off, which is substantial and unmatched anywhere AFAICS

This is a deal site. We're literally here to vote on deals we think are good or bad, and in turn, discuss them. And give advice, or opinions. But you know this.

I didn't realise you had already bought the Mark III. So you're just here to say this is not such good value as the Mark III? Well sorry, I can't help that, Olympus set the prices and the discounts.

I don't know what you mean "take it up wit Olympus". I went with the Mark III and I'm perfectly happy with that.

There's no doubting the 1 inch sensors are better but I am more than happy with my FZ 330 bridge camera as a newcomer to photography. I just can't be carting a big and expensive lens around and for my use I need decent zoom capability. Even 600mm isn't enough at times. The RX 10 seems ideal for me but it's too much to pay atm. Bridge cameras lose out on quality but wins on portability and ability to get shots you can't without decent zoom. You can learn photography with one and for much cheaper. But I know for some a "proper" camera is the goal. Just my view anyway.

https://www.mpb.com/en-uk/used-equipment/used-photo-and-video/used-compact-system-cameras/used-fuji-x-series-cameras/ I have used them for secondhand and service is very good. You should find something there to fulfil your needs, also good for lenses. I have used a few cameras. Found Fuji and Nikon have a very good menu system. Not used Canon for a long time but have no reason to think their menus are not good. Could not get on with Sony menu system. I have Olympus and Panasonic and their menus are not great either. Fuji just seem to know what a photographer wants. Nikon used to be like that but seem to have lost their way.

Thank you! Wow, yeah it looks like a X-T100 kit is about £250 here, which makes me a little more optimistic about what should be available at the £500 mark. As for the lens cost, I thought lenses were generally expensive anyway so I'm not super surprised by these prices but I'm definitely intrigued now that you've suggested that there are more reasonably priced lenses out there - what systems are better for a good range of well-priced lenses? Just having a glance at this shows several 'Sony E Mount', 'Nikon' and 'Canon' lenses, as well as a few for micro four-thirds cameras, but being that these are specifically cheap ones, I'm not sure if it's representative of how the lenses cost for those cameras in general.

£600 for X-T100 is super expensive. Go to Fuji Refurbished site if you are really into the Fuji camera. You probably will need to wait for it to be in stock (if ever...): https://shop.fujifilm.co.uk/digital-cameras/refurbished-digital-cameras?product_list_limit=all&product_list_dir=asc While you are there, also go to the page for the Fuji lenses and see if the prices will scare you away from the Fuji system :D : https://shop.fujifilm.co.uk/lenses/refurbished-lenses?___store=default&product_list_dir=asc&product_list_limit=all

Thank you all for the great advice! Sorry about this lengthy comment. Thank you, it definitely did help! I don't mind operating difficulty, I've checked out the M100 and it looks like it's currently cheaper than this on Amazon (£400) with a 15-45mm lens and not the additional 55-200mm (which currently costs about £270 on Amazon), so waiting for the Currys offer would be a great bet. It looks like the M100 is slightly lower spec than this X-A7, based only on this - but the only notable differences to me are that this has 4K video and a flash hot-shoe. Thank you, this motivated me to actually look up what the deal was with viewfinders (I remember using cameras with them as a child and being all too happy that they were replaced by digital screens). Having only just looked up the advantages of having a viewfinder: the mechanical stability, quick framing and resistance to less-than-ideal lighting conditions seem like good reasons to have one. Found a few alternatives to this, like the Sony A6400 (which looks to be about double the cost so it's very much out of the running) and the Panasonic Lumix GX8 (which I haven't been able to find in stock, but I'm happy to wait). Do you have any particular alternatives in mind that you think I should keep an eye out for? Thank you for the recommendations! It looks like the biggest functional differences between the X-T10, X-T1 and the X-A7 are that the former have viewfinders and the latter can shoot 4k video. In terms of pricing I haven't been able to find any used for a similar price to this. I also checked out the X-T100, which looks like it has similar functionality to the X-A7 as well as an EVF and a quick search has a refurb on Amazon for about £600 so I'm sure a better price could be found elsewhere with a little waiting, do you think this is any good as an alternative to the ones you suggested? Thank you, that was very helpful! I feel like all of those decision (lens type, brand, etc) are something that I'll be able to answer only once I've had some experience, but really my only experience with photography was with point-and-shoots several years ago and, now, capturing the odd horrendous photograph using my phone. In terms of my needs, a point and shoot or a phone definitely would (and currently does) suffice, but I'd like to be better - really, what I'd like from this (or an alternative) is to have room to explore photography so that I can start understanding it (in terms of lighting, framing, focus, colour, composition and so on) and maybe, as an added bonus, take some nice pictures or videos along the way. As for the specific requirements part of me wants to say "maybe someday" to all of them, but realistically it's more like "almost certainly not" for all of them (:I