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JUST ONE SMALL THING

OM-D flagship – which is already making quite a splash – got me thinking again about the whole topic of camera size. Essentially, right from the start of photography, the idea has been to build ever-smaller cameras so you don’t end up looking like Frank Hurley in that famous photograph of him slogging through an Antarctic blizzard weighed down not just by a massive wooden plate camera, but also a portable darkroom. Perspiration, as they say, is inversely proportional to inspiration.

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