I should like this camera a lot more than I seem to, I really should. It has done nothing wrong and does a lot right. The meter works right down into near dark, and the lens wide open is no worse than the best and better than most, and "wide open" means f1.7 and there's not much wrong with that. The focusing is quick and short travel. But the rangefinder patch is quite small and, on my camera, a bit yellowed out and hard to find sometimes, though it's not been a real problem. However I feel that I'm just not a rangefinder person - probably some people are and some aren't. For me an SLR or a zone focus camera is more intuitive in use. I have a Leica M2 which is a rangefinder of course, but the focus patch is bigger and the viewfinder in general more open and bright than that of this 35 SP so I find that easier than this Olympus, but I still don't reach for it all the time because it's just a little slow for me to use.
I have realised I don't particularly have situations in which this 35 SP becomes my natural camera to load up and take out. It's low light performance is attractive, but the release of the shutter at slow speeds often leads to shake which rather defeats the object. I don't mean that I tend to shake the camera at low shutter speeds, I mean that the momentum of the shutter releasing is such that it knocks the camera very slightly and that at low shutter speeds this matters. There is more on this below.
That said, I do have many photos that I took with this camera that I like just fine, and looking at the examples I've picked out for this page there really is nothing wrong with the whole concept, so I suppose the reason I don't use it much is that I don't get on with rangefinder focusing.