Buy...Buy...Buy photographic equipment

 I'm feeling a bit ridiculous.

I've got a Panasonic GM5 from my old days with a P/L15mm f/1.7, O 25mm f/1.8, P 42.5mm f/1.7, O 40-150mm f/4.0-5.6, P 12-32mm f/3.5-5.6, and a 46mm screw-on focal reducer.

 I've also got a Panasonic S5 Mk II with a P 20-60mm f/3.5-5.6, P 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6, P 50mm f/1.8, and a Tamron 180mm f/3.5 macro lens on an EF->L-mount adapter.

For years, I spent many days each week photographing at skate parks or earlier, photographing at high schools.  I photographed many sports.  I'm not quite as active or able, but I'm missing the ability to do more.

Purchases too many?

Purchase number one: 

I've been photographing the night sky and I was looking for a very wide lens and there was a Brightin Star 11mm f/2.8 fisheye lens for US$259 for L-mount, except that the deal was US$40 off, not tariff, taxes, or shipping on my end.

 It's not electronically connected at all.  It's completely manual.  It's also coming from a Chinese brand that I haven't tried, but as long as it focuses to infinity and doesn't fall apart, I'll be okay.  It looks as though the optical quality is quite good, especially for the price.

  Purchase number two:

I went out with my GM5 the other night and was hoping for something very wide, missing my Olympus 8mm f/1.8 fisheye lens.  I saw an Amazon 5 monthly payments deal and bought a micro Four-Thirds Panasonic/Leica 9mm f/1.7.  It was full price, but for US$99 something each month, it's agreeable.

 It has arrived.  It's as big as the GM5 and currently, it's the only weather-sealed micro Four-Thirds lens I have.  It used to be that all my lenses were weather-sealed. Using Four-Thirds equipment, I photographed outside during hurricanes, so having weather-sealed equipment was important.

Purchase number three:

Amazon has a habit of showing me deals on equipment from 2016.  I've also been looking at (used. new) micro Four-Thirds camera bodies from around that time.  The E-M1 Mk III was interesting to me, but the EVF is low on resolution.  The GH5 Mk II looked interesting, but the lack of PDAF made too much of a compromise and with the tariffs, etc. a new one is just too expensive and good, used ones are difficult to find.

So, Amazon pushed a Panasonic G85 after the lens purchase.   The G85 is a sufficient camera, much like a cut-down version of the GH4 that I owned, but with really good IBIS.  Amazon had a 5 payments deal  but it just wasn't a step up.  I looked at the G97, which is somewhat more advanced, not unlike the 2019 G90/G95/G99.  The EVF and back panel use OLED technology.  The menus are more like my S5 Mk II than the GH4 menus.  In a lot  of ways, it's a better GH4 with IBIS.  The trouble was that there was no 5 payments  plan offered.  12 hours later, there was a 5 payments plan.

Now, I have three pieces of equipment on the way.