It's amazing how gear choices affect one's online presence. As a Pentax user I had a few very friendly groups where I could contribute chat or just blurt things out.
When I branched out to μ43 I found more people, and learned more about diversity. Lumix/Oly, stills/video, feature sets and more - each sliced the topics in different ways! In some I had things to say, in many others not much.
Moving into Sony brought me into contact with really tech-minded folks, most of whom clearly had larger disposable incomes than I could imagine. I could still give and take information,, but many times the easy answer (upgrade!) was nothing I could manage.
When I shoveled nearly all my gear into one pile and shipped them away, I joined the Lumix-S crowd. Since it's a subset of the L crowd, it's been .. well, familiar and strange, both at once.
- One L-mount site I visit is mostly Leica users; if any group can make my income look worse than Sony users it's Leicaphiles. Therefore I'm pretty quiet there.
- Another puts Panasonic mirrorless users together, so S users and G users are intermixed. I think I'm reading about a surprising S9 feature them realize it's a G9 being discussed. Oops.
So no group of S-centric users really exists. It would not be a large group: compared to other "full frame" marketers Lumix is probably a pinch above Pentax with its K-1 bodies keeping the spirit of DSLR alive. SoNiCan has its masses; Lumix-S does not.
This is not a bad thing, and does not correlate to the S5 capability and impressive feature set. It's just different, and not a surprise. If I found no one to speak with online, my photos would speak for me! : √)
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