I’ve always loved photography as a hobby, and I think that’s why I’m well and truly obsessed with Instagram.
But a hobby is all I ever thought it would be for me. However, over the last year it’s also become a large part of my job.
Up until a few months ago I embarrassingly just used my iPhone for all my work! including when I was creating content for other businesses… professional I know… Cringe. I was wanting to take my business to the next level and felt if I wanted to be taken seriously I needed to take my work seriously, so I started researching cameras that would work for the large array of things I use it for. My wish list was long and I was soon to find out somewhat challenging to find.
I needed a camera that had the quality of a DSLR (for content/product images) but was compact enough that it would fit into a small bag I take when traveling. Sometimes I feel you need to compromise on the quality when going for a more compact camera but I wasn’t prepared to do that. I wanted great video quality and something that performed really well in low light as a lot of events I go to have terrible lighting (thanks PR companies)
After much deliberation I decided on the OMD E-M5 MK II in all black body (obviously) and when I mean much deliberation I mean purchasing two, count it TWO cameras prior to this and returning them both (awkward). So after the long and tedious initial process, I’ve now had my Olympus for a number of months and have well and truly used it for everything I could possibly need it for – so I now feel I can give an informed review.
