[AudioNut]

I am a real camera nut . . . and I've tried many different mirrorless cameras, from most of the current top brands.

In the past, I used and loved Leica, Canon and Nikon SLRs and DSLRs, but 5 or 6 years ago, switched to mirrorless, mostly for the compact size and for image quality equivalent to the BIGGER cameras.

The mirrorless cameras I seem to have recently gravitated to, all seem to have one feature in common that, as an older (but not quite elderly) person, find that I need. . . . In Body Image Stabilization (IBIS) . . . Old hands do shake!!!!

The lens based image stabilization offered by Fuji (Canon and Nikon too), the earlier Sony cameras, and others, just didn't seem to do it for me . . And, most of the prime lenses for those systems and some of the zooms, didn't have image stabilization at all - so, for me, the result was, quite often, fuzzy pictures. I did own Fuji X-E2, X-E3, X-T1, X-T2 and X-Pro2 cameras, and "brought home" a X-H1 for trial and examination.

Fuji now has an in body, image stabilized (IBIS) system camera, the X-H1, but the camera body is huge . . the size of most mid range DSLRs (Nikon and Canon) - perhaps defeating the purpose of mirrorless. And, the upcoming replacements for existing Fuji cameras apparently do not have IBIS.

I also tried the Sony A-6000, A-6300 (my wife uses this) and an A-6500, which does have in body stabilization. (Still have this) - but don't feel that the IBIS is as good as the Olympus system.

Sony does have superb in body image stabilization in its recent A "7" and "9" series, full frame cameras, but, for those cameras, the lenses are mammoth. I recently tried the A7 III camera and three of its "EF" lenses . . but the resulting "kit" was much too large for me to comfortably travel with.

So, what do I (or did I) do?

Last November, I purchased my first Micro 4/3rd camera. An Olympus E-M1 Mark II. An extraordinary camera. Superb image quality, Extremely rugged body (probably the best in the business). Not tiny, but small nevertheless. And, a superlative line-up of lenses - from Olympus, Panasonic and other manufacturers.

Olympus and Panasonic lenses are completely interchangeable. I have lenses from both brands and use them on my Olympus bodies. And, the lenses are, for the most part, much smaller than those used by other mirrorless camera systems and DSLRs. The image quality of these micro 4/3 lenses is also extremely, extremely excellent.

Olympus pioneered in body image stabilization and remains the leader in this modality, and Panasonic was the pioneer in mirrorless cameras (The first to offer a mirrorless camera - 10 years ago -) And, cameras from either manufacturer and lenses from both are astonishingly good.

So I now have the Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark II, OM-D-E-M5 Mark II, and Olympus Pen F cameras, as well as the Sony A-6500, and I am quite happy.

And, almost all of my photographs are shake-free, and, if I can overlook all the other faults in my pictures, the Olympus cameras with IBIS have made me a truly great photographer of the worlds most amateurish looking snapshots. Every thing the camera does is great, everything the photographer does is pretty lousy.