Franke07 wrote:My first digital camera was an Olympus mirrorless bridge! Despite its limitations I liked the quality of the 3mgp images
That sounds as though it might have been the C-3040z which Mike Johnston writes about in his post on the topic, which is another resume of Olympus' highs and lows. I enjoyed his description of the focussing speed "if you didn't prefocus, the sun would move in the sky between the time you pressed the shutter and the time it took the picture".
After starting with a Practice camera, I moved to the Olympus OM system and shot with that for many years. I still have the bodies, both now non working, and the lenses which I still occasionally use on digital. Most work well, although the 35 f/2.8 is a bit disappointing, but in its defence it was designed for film. In fact, I recently bought a mint OM 100 f/2 which, despite being around 30 years old, is as good as anything produced by Leica or Zeiss. The way it renders falls somewhere between the two, I would say. Olympus always knew how to make excellent lenses. I eventually switched to Canon when it became obvious that Olympus was not going to offer autofocus. Otherwise, I would probably have stuck with them.
I did eventually end up buying another Olympus, the original E-M10, during my foray with m43 when I became dissatisfied with Canon. While I cannot explain why, there was something about the system which failed to convince me, despite several attempts to like it. All I can really say is that it had nothing to do with the image quality from the sensor. Possibly it was the fact that Olympus was charging as much as anyone else. One of the benefits of a smaller sensor, ostensibly the most expensive component in a digital camera, is that it should reduce manufacturing costs. Olympus appeared to prefer competing against its rivals on the basis that a comprehensive system would be smaller and lighter yet, in the later years especially. failed to match their rivals' technical advances.
This the link to Mike Johnston's article:
https://theonlinephotographer.typepad.c ... s-rip.html