>>3810507>I mean impressive setup overall, visually impressive lol. Looks like it came straight out of a Hitchock film.Ah yes, the super telephoto lens being used as a quasi telescope. I get what you mean. MFT crop factor makes it 600mm equivalent and using a x2 teleconverter turns it into 1200mm equivalent. It's pretty much useless for photos. It's a soup of softness at that point, unless I drop it down to f/11 or something. Pic Rel is the reach.
I actually really want to get the Olympus 300mm f/4 for birding though. I just adore the reach for wildlife.
>Fuji were the ones I was talking about indeed. There's other brands that do retro cameras but they tend to be original designs that don't try too hard to pass for vintage.Yeah, there aspects I like, such as the EVF to the side of the camera and the exposure bias dial that make it really nice to handle, but Fuji have a strange overall strategy.
>Fujis remind me of those tacky "replica" kit cars. The retro models from Panasonic and others are more like a Plymouth Prowler, a nod to the past but its very own thing.Panasonic's GX cameras look modern, but I do like how they keep an exposure bias dial and a form factor that's just really neat.
I've already had people look at me weird with the Pen-F and ask me "you still shoot film???". It's funny because I do actually shoot on film, but the film cameras I have look more like modern digital compact cameras than they do film. The fun thing to do with the Pen-F with someone who's convinced you're using "obsolete" film, is flip out the articulated screen and show them the live view.
