You must be looking at the optimistic OM forums! Most comments I see are much more dire. They are now (since the selling off by Olympus) a tiny company with limited resources, which is unfortunate. I have owned both Olympus (now OM) and Canon systems since 2014. With every new Canon camera that gets released in the $2500 and lower segment, I wish it were anywhere as good as the Olympus (now OM) camera that I also have. Not that the various 6 or 7 series cameras from Canon have been bad - they are very good and have served me well, but they are never as good as my Olympus (now OM) camera that I always end up using far more than the Canon. For BIF, my Om-1 mark II does the job better than the R7, the R6 II and the R5, all of which I have used. When I'm out with a group, the 2X crop factor gets me shots the other birders just don't get. The AF and subject detection is certainly on par, and better than better, than the Canon cameras mentioned. Hopefully, someday (I have been waiting for about 8 years) for Canon to implement in-camera focus limiters, which is a great feature for BIF.
You’re right, make it 2 years (not me, but the message boards). I got an EM-1 mark ii for bracketing/stacking insects, composite night shots, and then when the R7 came out that was a decision point, vs the OM-1, and I moved to OM and sold the 90D and didn't get the R7 for a few reasons, rolling shutter and loud shutter on the R7, which will probably be fixed in the next iteration, but also because I kind of maxed out financially and weight-wise for birds with a used 500 f4, which was great, but very heavy, there are more lighter options in m43, compromising slower aperture speed but also less expensive, or lighter, or sharper, or both, than used 500 f4, or rf 100-300 +TC, or 200-400tc or even 100-500 or 200-800. I still use the M cameras and several Canon (and Sigma) lenses for the bulk of family and travel shots, and an R8 for the best night-shooting, subject separation, and it's AF is clearly better than the OM-1, or the M6ii, when I'm not trying to follow birds in flight. What I love about Canon is the interface/feel, and that every once in a while they make a great modest-priced lens; lenses that are just a delight and wonder, and affordable; The 35 F2IS, the EF-S 10-18 and 55-250 STM, the EF-M 22, 11-22, and especially the 32 f1.4, for what they are the R100-400 and m18-150 are nice as well, I actually don't love the R85 f2IS, I miss the perhaps fuzzier EF 85 1.8, but the Sigma EF-M 56 1.4 is the only other lens that fits with that family. So, 3 mounts at once, honestly I'm very happy to have everything covered, if nothing breaks I could keep them forever, but, you know, new things.
