JoeW
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I'm teaching a photo class for beginners. One of my participants has an Olympus OMD EM MkIV and she hates it. She finds the menu system to not be very intuitive. The manual isn't much help either. She asked me for possible alternatives to replace this--so that's what I'm asking for help on.
1. I know, everyone's first question is going to be "what's her budget?" I don't honestly know what her upper limit is. I do know she's not interested in and doesn't need something like the Nikon Z9 so please, no professional package recommendations. I think she's probably comfortable paying up to $2,000 but would prefer less. And frankly, her needs are very focused (no pun intended). She shoots interiors and exteriors of properties (she's a high-end real estate agent, usually pays for staging, usually pays for a photographer but occasionally will need to shoot on her own because she needs photos that day or to show an element of the property the photographer didn't capture that a client has a question about). And she gets a lot of deer in her backyard and wants to be able to shoot them from inside her house. And those are the two things she has immediate interests in shooting. I know, they call for two different lens and different needs.
2. She currently has an Olympus OMD EM MkIV and hates it. She likes the size and weight. She has 3 lens (including a nice long-distance zoom and a great interiors wide angle) that she likes and finds useful. But it's the camera body/make she hates.
3. So there are a couple of questions/thoughts I'd be interested in getting comments and recommendations on:
--Any other camera options (besides Olympus) she can use those lens on? I assume not since it's a 4/3rds sensor and only Panasonic is really in that market. But I'd like to see if she has any other options she that allow her to avoid replacing the lens she likes if she switches bodies.
--She sees the value in moving to a full-frame sensor, though that's not a "must-have" I think.
--She'd like something that provides better support/instruction options, probably less dependent on menus. For instance, we've got people in the class with Nikon and Canon DSLRs and she envies how quickly and easily they can do things like: set ISO, change WB, or a range of other very basic functions for anyone who wants to do more than just set it on "P" and take snapshots.
--She doesn't need a touch screen, is fine using a view-finder, doesn't need an articulated screen.
--She likes having a smaller/lighter camera because she'll throw it in her purse when she's visiting a property.
Okay, given that background, what recommendations do you suggest she look at or consider?
1. I know, everyone's first question is going to be "what's her budget?" I don't honestly know what her upper limit is. I do know she's not interested in and doesn't need something like the Nikon Z9 so please, no professional package recommendations. I think she's probably comfortable paying up to $2,000 but would prefer less. And frankly, her needs are very focused (no pun intended). She shoots interiors and exteriors of properties (she's a high-end real estate agent, usually pays for staging, usually pays for a photographer but occasionally will need to shoot on her own because she needs photos that day or to show an element of the property the photographer didn't capture that a client has a question about). And she gets a lot of deer in her backyard and wants to be able to shoot them from inside her house. And those are the two things she has immediate interests in shooting. I know, they call for two different lens and different needs.
2. She currently has an Olympus OMD EM MkIV and hates it. She likes the size and weight. She has 3 lens (including a nice long-distance zoom and a great interiors wide angle) that she likes and finds useful. But it's the camera body/make she hates.
3. So there are a couple of questions/thoughts I'd be interested in getting comments and recommendations on:
--Any other camera options (besides Olympus) she can use those lens on? I assume not since it's a 4/3rds sensor and only Panasonic is really in that market. But I'd like to see if she has any other options she that allow her to avoid replacing the lens she likes if she switches bodies.
--She sees the value in moving to a full-frame sensor, though that's not a "must-have" I think.
--She'd like something that provides better support/instruction options, probably less dependent on menus. For instance, we've got people in the class with Nikon and Canon DSLRs and she envies how quickly and easily they can do things like: set ISO, change WB, or a range of other very basic functions for anyone who wants to do more than just set it on "P" and take snapshots.
--She doesn't need a touch screen, is fine using a view-finder, doesn't need an articulated screen.
--She likes having a smaller/lighter camera because she'll throw it in her purse when she's visiting a property.
Okay, given that background, what recommendations do you suggest she look at or consider?
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