Some thoughts about Micro 4/3, plus an intriguing experiment

Tripod! What tripod?

Are you saying that's handheld David?

If so, you must have used a stabilised lens, and a shutter speed well above 1/60th, because the movement of the moon alone leads to blur at anything below 1/125th.

Check the metadata. ;-)

I chose micro-four-thirds for a couple of reasons...- first I wanted a small camera body for taking with me while bicycling. The Olympus EPL-7 has served that purpose very nicely. Secondly, I wanted a durable weather resistant camera for shooting nature, thus the Panasonic G9 fills that niche. The G9 being larger in size can handle larger lens better. Plus, when using a Panasonic lens you get dual stabilization. I have been very pleased with this combo.

This is interesting. I accidentally posted it in the Casual forum, and so I assume that many of you have seen it by now. We have every right to expect that larger sensors can and will out-perform smaller ones, but in this case, the smaller sensor was the victor, save for AF speed:

 

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Keep in mind that the GH5s has a slightly wider sensor, somewhere between Micro 4/3 and APS-C. And that its resolution is 12Mpx, or 4K.

Used m43 for about a year. Beautiful results from the smaller sensor. What killed it for me was lack of easy to use manual controls.

Used m43 for about a year. Beautiful results from the smaller sensor. What killed it for me was lack of easy to use manual controls.

Good point! I am tempted also by the Fuji system, partly due to its controls.

 

I recall the '90s when the best selling AF SLRs were the F4 and the EOS-1 (FWIW, back then I really, really wanted an RTS III!). I liked Canon's film cameras for sure, and I even used one or two. But Nikon understood photographers and what they want and need from a camera. Not modernism, but how we interact with our tools. Nikon took photographers seriously, and they took design seriously, too.

A 600mm for full frame is $1998

 

Sony 200-600 F5-6.3 FE

 

excellent hand holdable full frame 600mm on Sony FE

I'd defy anyone to tell the difference between two pictures, one taken with a Leica body, and another with a Zorki, both using the same lens.

 

Isn't a camera just a light tight box with a lens. Assuming the thing gives you an accurate shutter speed, the camera isn't going to effect how the lens works in film cameras. I wouldn't expect to see any difference.