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Stephanie everyone has different values so it's good to get a camera in hand for at least a few shoots to get the measure of it, as well as how the ergonomic wind up feeling in your hands and value system.
For what it's worth, I've shot with Canon for 16 years, Nikon a bit longer over all, and I still have a D3 and seven lenses, three Olympus cameras, and three Fuji cameras. I've been with the M43 system since the first body launched (and the Four thirds system before that)
I enjoy them all for different things. As one poster mentioned, the automatic focus stacking is fantastic on the top end Olympus bodies. That said I find that even after all of these years, if I put the Olympus bodies down for a week, I have to pretty much re-read the manual. Heck, I have on for sale just now, mostly only for the fact that to go from the E1 to the E5 mkii requires a re-adjustement period, they are so different in the handling and setup. Not so with the Fuji's. Wonderful ergonomic, amazing lenses and a gestalt found nowhere else. Fuji does not fudge the iso like Olympus seems to also, but whatever the reason,the Fuji files are much (much) better in low light, if that happens to be important to you. There is really something special about the files and colors, especially the JPG's. It's the only system I'm content to use jpg's from, personally.
So, yes, it's all personal and biased, but for me at least, while all these systems have a lot of strengths, it's the Fuji which will be the one, for that prying out of dead hands at the end. Actually, I'm an optimist so I plan to take the Fuji's with me. The arial shots should be superb and the fuji glass up to any sort of resolving power needs.
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