u/tika1104

Good morning all

My wife has finally decided she's done with phone photography and wants to upgrade to a camera. Her main requirement was size, vintage aesthetics and easy to use so I picked her up a X-M5 with the kit lens. But now I want to get her 2 extra lens for very specific requirements. I have shoy Sony for the last 10 years so I'm really new to the world of X mount.

We are off the Borneo at the end of the year and I want to get her a zoom lens for wildlife, she still doesn't want to lug around anything huge so size is a big bonus. Was looking at either the XF 70-300 or the 16-300 from sigma. I couldn't really find any direct comparisons of the 2 lenses but sigma does seem abit soft. Is the XF pretty sharp? Any other zoom lenses we should look at?

And although the kit lens is pretty small she wants a pancake lens to cruise around with and pocket the camera. Was thinking th XF 23mm 2.8mm but I can see there are a few pankacakes around from 18-27mm in different brands.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated

My wife and I both got the mega pass with the hopes of getting more shinys. We have been smashing it the entire week leading up and all this weekend. Pogo ++ smashing catches, us doing raid after raid of Megas. We've maxed out the pass at level 600 and how were those shiny odds?

I got 2 (1 chespin from the pass and a Pikachu from the wild) my wife? 1 Fennekin from the wild. With over 100 raids between the 2 of us, neither of us have even seen a shiny from the 4 star raids that were meant to be boosted

I've been checking the journal every so often in case the ++ was doing me dirty but I haven't even see any shiny flees.

We are apart of a major pogo group in our city and asking around over the last few days most players who got the pass are experiencing the exact same thing

I get it's about luck but with most people getting bad luck this feels designed.

We have a gym right on our house and we are opposing team so we both get our free 50 coins a day and that is more than enough for premium raid passes.