I love that both the OMD and X-T1 both have have the manual control knobs on the camera itself, no routing through menus to change basic settings. X-T1 seems to have some great primes, 14, 23, 35, 56 with supposedly a fast ultra-wide coming soon. Love that they have aperture rings on them as well.
Yeah, the XT1 or one of the OMD's would be my camera if I was buying into a system today. If you don't care about IBIS, and want some fantastic primes and an awesome sensor, the XT1 +23/1.4 and 56/1.2.... Really can't go wrong. I owned the XE1 for a short bit and it was a pretty quirky camera, not nearly as quick in…
I've got the EM1 and EM5, though I would probably recommend getting the EM10 if you're looking to start a system with M43rds (or the Panasonic GX7). When you combine one of these cameras with a few of the small primes, or one of the pancake zooms, your setup will be a lot smaller than even the smaller DSLR kits, plus…
FF cameras are nice for some things and if you do most of your shooting in a studio where size/weight isn't a concern I would agree. If not, there is really no reason to go for the expense and weight of a FF system. Something like the Fuji X system is very close in terms of high ISO noise, dynamic range, and the difference…