Is 35mm Obsolete?

[ElFenix]

love the retro design on those.

always nice to have a solid feeling chunk of steel and brass in your hand.

 

[blastingcap]

Buy a generation or two old DSLR off of Craigslist.

$2-$300 and you're in a Canokin body + lens.

If she doesn't use it, throw it back on CL and you might not even lose much money.

This.

 

[blastingcap]

nothing new coming out for SLR 4/3.

I think you are right that 4/3 lenses aren't gonna be made anymore. Still, existing 4/3 lenses will live on via the m4/3 system (and adapters). The EM-1 (not EM-6, I don't know why they went backwards on the numbering system?!) is supposed to have true 4/3 support. And of course m4/3 support as well. This is because the camera will have phase-detect on board the sensor.