A second camera body?

After my flurry of purchases in August when switching from full frame to micro four thirds, I have been learning the vagaries of my new equipment in the field. Despite buying three excellent OM M.Zuiko lenses (the 12-40mm F2.8, the 40-150mm F2.8, and the 100-400 F5.0-F6.3) I soon noticed that it was the 100-400 staying welded to my camera. As with my Canon R6 Mk2 and sigma 150-600 contemporary lens, I was still too nervous of missing "wildlife opportunities to risk experimenting with different lenses.

The answer, thanks to the relative affordability of OM gear and the excellent used camera website MPB, has been a second camera body. In my new setup I now have my "quick draw" wildlife camera in the form of the OM1 Mk2 coupled with the 100-400mm lens, and my "ideas" camera for trying different lenses and styles of photography.

My first session with two camera's proved the concept as I had great fun crawling around on the ground looking for quasi macro opportunities with the OM1 fitted with the 40-150mm F2.8. Getting up again was not so much fun but this new ability to do macro photography will greatly improve my flexibility I think.

As if on queue a military helicopter then flew overhead so I grabbed the OM1 Mk2 to practice my "birds in flight" technique. This proved the theory if not the execution as I had accidently left the Mk2 on 1/100th shutter speed after some earlier very low light bird shots. We live and learn but as least one shot was just about in focus 😂