>>4366137Yeah. Not just the DJI rebrand, apparently newer production PL 15mms and PL 25mm IIs have a fat Made in China stamp on the back and the packaging no longer mentions Japan as origin. I don't know the exact date and whether there's a current decode list for Panasonic lens serial numbers, it's just something I noticed looking at eBay ads and is less obvious than the molded-in China/Vietnam mark in the usual spot on the Oly lens line.
>>4366138>E-M5 Mark IIA solid brick of a camera with loads of customization if you can work through the arcane menus, satisfying controls and interesting long exposure modes, great image stabilization, but an outdated sensor, no PDAF and basically useless constant AF. Smaller in the hand than it looks in photos. Shooting raw is required if you want anything beyond thumbnail sized Instagram pics because Oly forces fuckloads of sharpening and noise reduction even when unnecessary.
>14-42mm pancakeTiny but that's about it, there's about a dozen different M43 kit lenses in that range and they're all pretty similar, IIRC the newest Panasonic 14-42 PZ is better all around but not compact; the Pana 12-32 is another solid lens with a little less zoom. None of the pancakes are true pancakes as they extend into a longer shape when powered on or unlocked, and the Oly 14-42 has a known problem with an electronic flex cable on the inside breaking and making the lens unusable.
>alternativesMost anything newer in any brand depending on price. The E-M5 Mark III is a backwards step other than the sensor which you can get in the E-M1 Mark II instead, arguably the last body Olympus really went balls-out on before they started cutting corners. You might find the Lumix GX8/GX85/etc for a good price still and those are solid, just rangefinder style instead of SLR.
