After my DSLR and all my lenses got stolen in the burglary this winter, I bought new gear. I had been vaguely thinking anyway about getting a mirrorless camera, but I couldn’t quite justify the expense, since I already had two perfectly good cameras.

But now that I didn’t (have two cameras) I had an opportunity to switch. And that’s what I did. Instead of replacing the Nikon DSLR with a similar one, I bought an Olympus mirrorless camera.

The camera itself feels solid and quite chunky. But the lenses weight so little that it’s hard to believe they are for real and not just fakes for displaying in a shop window. My whole kit is much, much smaller and lighter.

So much so that I don’t even need a separate camera bag any more. I tried using the bag I have, but it was worse than just cramming everything into a plastic bag in an ordinary backpack: the teeny little lenses just rattled around in it. So out it goes.

I’m trying to sell it, but coming to realize that there might not be much demand for this kind of bag any more. I guess nowadays only serious photographers use DSLRs, and they carry way more equipment than you could possibly fit in such a small bag. (It fits one smallish DSLR and two lenses.) And amateurs buy smaller cameras, or just use their phones.