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  • I’m about to start my 12 week paternity leave next week thanks to a state program and almost everyone that I’ve told has had their jaws on the floor that I would even want to do that.

    That’s actually getting close to the amount some of the worse countries in Europe give.

    To me it was a no brainer, I’m getting ~85% of my normal pay and I get to take care of my wife, our son and our newborn for 3 whole months

    The only reason I could see not to do that is if that 15% would leave finances so tight you couldn’t turn on the heating. But as you probably spend more that that on comminuting absolutely no brainer.

    My company in the UK only gives 2 weeks paternity so most guys save and use all their holiday for the year to bring their total time off to 9 weeks.


















  • For image quality, unless it’s in particularly low light and in that low light you’re shooting something fast moving so can’t take advantage of the IBIS that the Olympus cameras have to have a longer exposure, I doubt you’ll see any difference.

    The R50 looks to have a better autofocus system. By every other metric it’s extremely similar. So if you’re going to be taking lots of photos of fast moving objects, like sports I’d say the R50 would be the way to go.

    If you intend to buy new then the R50 would also be the way to go, as the most recent version of the e-m5 (now o-m5) would be way out of your budget and there’s not been a new e-m10 in sometime. However you’ll get a lot more camera by going secondhand however. Somewhere like mpb.com if you’re concerned about buying peer to peer.

    Don’t really know much about canon RF lenses. I know there’s not nearly as big a range of options.

    I’ve tried doing a comparison purely for size (i have no clue if the canon would be in budget with these lenses) with as closely equivalent focal length

    The shorter focal length https://camerasize.com/compact/#633.92,904.948,ha,t

    The longer (couldn’t find a native RF mount lens so it’s an EF with an adapter) https://camerasize.com/compact/#633.95,904.232.5,ha,t