Suggestions for a newbie in 4/3rds CSC

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Im looking to getting a CSC camera as a back up, and light weight shooter.
I know DSLRs very well, but if im honest I thought these CSC clickers were abit of a gimick...how wrong i was. I spent the better part of an hour in Jessops playing with various models and seeing how they feel...
I was going to get the 600D as my smaller..travling camera, but now I wanna give the 4/3rds a go....
I kinda fell for the Olympus Pen 3 today..felt right in my hands...(they are not small, by any streach of the imagination..lol)
What are peoples thoughts and veiws?...have i missed anything?
 
chrism_scotland said:
I've had the older EP1 and EP2 and found them very good, but I didn't really get on with the add-on viewfinder.

Cracking image quality and a really good range of lenses available, especially the very small prime lenses.
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I've still got the E-P1 & 2 and do get on with the viewfinder ;)
The little Olympus primes come highly recommended, but don't discount the Panasonic 20mm & zooms as well.
A recent Chinese holiday saw me taking both bodies with 7-14mm & 14-140mm as a pair of walkround cameras, one in each jacket pocket, and the E-P2 with the 20mm F1.7 Panasonic as a pocketable camera for the evenings. I do have decent sized pockets though. :)

I know those two lenses aren't cheap by any means, but they do crop up from time to time as a real bargain if you can muster up the readies at the opportune time.
If I was starting from scratch now with the PEN range, I probably look into one of the third generation ones for the faster AF
7-140mm in two lenses (14-280mm EFL) is a huge range to fit in your pocket as a holiday setup.
 
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