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This Week in Gear: New Olympus Cameras, Sony's Mystery Telephotos, and Leica Bargains
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This Week in Gear: New Olympus Cameras, Sony's Mystery Telephotos, and Leica Bargains

This Week in Gear: New Olympus Cameras, Sony’s Mystery Telephotos, and Leica Bargains There’s something I’ve been thinking about a lot lately, and it hit me while scrolling through this week’s gear announcements: we’ve become obsessed with the next shiny thing while ignoring what we already own. Olympus Reminds Us Why Compact Systems Matter Olympus just dropped a new PEN camera, and honestly, it’s worth paying attention to—not because it’s revolutionary, but because the company keeps pushing a philosophy I actually respect.

Olympus's Last Lens Is a $7,500 Mistake (And the Sony FX6 Might Be the Pro Video Camera I've Been Waiting For)
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Olympus's Last Lens Is a $7,500 Mistake (And the Sony FX6 Might Be the Pro Video Camera I've Been Waiting For)

I spend a lot of mornings doing something most photographers don’t bother with: running the actual math on gear before I get excited about it. Manufacturer spec sheets are written to make things sound impressive, and that gap between “sounds impressive” and “is actually worth your money” is exactly where bad purchasing decisions live. When I watched the latest Tony & Chelsea Northrup tutorial covering Olympus’s final-ever lens release and the newly announced Sony FX6, I had that familiar feeling of someone else doing the homework I would have done anyway.