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Originally Posted by acherontia  Is there any particular reason why you chose Olympus? It seems even odder than my choice of Sony!  - My reasons being that Minolta have made some of the best glass about and as Anti shake is in the camera bodies they still fit! |
High quality weather and dust protected body and lenses - I've spent 10 hours in the hills in pouring rain with the camera just slung over my shoulder.
Magnesium body with anti-shake built in. A dust reduction system with a proven track record of actually working. Flip-out live view screen (I now wouldn't dream of owning a camera without one. I also wouldn't dream of owning a camera with Nikon's misconceived idea of putting the hinge on the bottom!)
Very high quality lenses - don't take my word for it, have a look at some reviews on the net.
The following from dpreview:
"Indeed the Olympus Zuiko Digital ED 12-60mm F2.8-4.0 SWD is quite simply a superb lens, which can lay claim to being one of the very best standard zooms currently available."
"Certainly in terms of the studio results, it's the nearest we've yet found to a technically perfect lens." (50mm macro)
There are similar reviews for the Zuiko 50-200mm and 7-14mm to be found on the net.
The Olympus bodies come in for criticism for their high ISO performances, but I come from a background where pushing TriX to 800 ASA was considered exotic - and I don't take many shots of black cats in coal mines anyway!
Jim