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"Taunton State Hospital remains open and is looking to renovate some of the unused buildings as office space. " -- Not quite abandoned, is it?

"The in-lens shutter is the wave of the future." -- Global shutter is the future. The technology is just not here yet.

Let's take a page from Microsoft's playbook. OM-1 2016.

This line always got hand-me-downs.

@Flint OBrien -- Hey, that's good info, thanks. I didn't know it used the right half of the screen. I thought it was the whole screen, hence my concern.

@aliasfox "do you make a habit out of poking yourself in they eye with your thumb on the back of the camera?" -- No, but I normally do not move my thumb aimlessly on the rear LCD while looking...

@aliasfox -- Interesting. And you're not poking your eye when moving a thumb around the screen while holding the camera to your eye? Seems almost like texting and driving to me. :)

@Hachu21 & aliasfox -- Thanks. Not very intuitive for an ancient like me, but I will test it when it comes out. I assume you would use left hand for that? Doesn't seem very stable, particularly...

Barney, did you get to test manual focus assist? Does it open a smaller assist window near the selected focus area, like GH4, or is it a full screen affair, like E-M5II?

"121 cross-type AF on-sensor phase detection points" -- Great. Where is the AF joystick/pad?

"Could also give the Pentax 645Z a run for its money, too" -- Considering that Fuji actually follows up bodies with lenses, then yeah, it probably will.

"D810 killer" -- I think Burning Man is over. That must have been some strong stuff if you're still hallucinating.

Looking nice. Pity they shortened the grip.

"In the next five years Sony and Fuji will take the place of Canon and Nikon." -- Just shaking my head in disbelief...

"pixel density, which is a function of the static jpeg resolution set when editing image size." -- No, it isn't. JPEG images are measured in pixels horizontal by pixels vertical. Pixel density is a...

All good, but: "Image files should be uploaded to the site as jpegs (72ppi)" -- ?? ppi is a measurement of monitor pixel density, and has no relationship to jpegs.

"The people who abandoned the DSLR for the camera Phone, are the intended market" -- Those people already have a camera phone, and they will not switch back to a clumsy instant camera. And almost...

Like.

Can you people kindly take this political sh* over to Off Topic?

I don't even own a Leica, and yet I felt dismayed they would dispose of their history this way. This makes a lot more sense, thanks, youngjohn.