As someone who gets to review cameras for a living, as well as being a self-professed gear nerd for many years, I’ve had the opportunity to test drive a plethora of cameras. I started at the height of the film era (1990s), where amazing cameras were being built and innovative technological advancements were being made (OIS was invented during the film era). At the time everyone had access to a dozen film manufacturers and hundreds of film types. Used camera stores were stocked to the ceiling with old classics like the Nikon F3, Canon AE1, Minolta X700, etc. This was the final golden age of film photography. My main camera kit consisted of my Minolta 9xi, a few prime lenses and my handy Ricoh GR-1. My favourite film was Kodachrome 64 and Tri-X. Life was good. When the digital era began in the late 1990s, I refused to give up film. Initially digital was far too expensive and the image quality was too low to make the switch. The only people using digital cameras extensively were sports an