My comparasons FF and m4/3 same flowers diffrent lenses

This thread is really for photographers who have never used a FF DSLR but do use m4/3 cameras. Note, that I am using only older manual focus lenses and not modern AF lenses in this comparason. With all the other different subjects in these forums I still think it's ok to compare actrual images from these two different systems. Because I own both I have more choices. That's a good thing!

Some posters in the other thread were asking me to make my own comparasons between my own gear and so this is exactly what I have done. I took more pictures today to compare my own gear Kodak SLR/n FF and m4/3 Olympus E-PL1 + VF-2. I did not use my Canon 1DsMkII with L primes like 85L f/1.2 or 24mm f/1.4 L maybe I should have. But I have been using the 1DsMkII for birding and I prefere the smaller and lighter Kodak for hand held photography. Perhaps I should also have included images taken using my Epson R-D1 digital rangefinder and Nikon D1H DSLR and Canon 50D and Pentax K1000. But that's beyond my original idea of comparing FF and m4/3. All images were taken at the minimum focusing distance.

All were hand held with ISO 160 for the Kodak and ISO 200 for the E-PL1. Please understand that I like both systems and that's why I own and use them both. I am trying to compare FF and m4/3 for some relaxed pictures of the same violet in my wife's garden. I am not trying to win any prize for excellence or enter any photo contests with these images. To do that I would need to make different decisions as to framing and perhaps even moving the flower pots around for a better view and perhaps wait for better lighting. That's called proper preperation. But these images are done in my normal causal methods for my own "fun" and personal photography. I used two cameras only. My Kodak SLR/n and Ai 50mm f/1.4 at f/1.4. Also I used my Olympus E-PL1 with VF-2 and 85mm f/2 Zorki lens, Nikon Ai 24mm f/2.8 and lastly Leica 50mm f/1.4 Summilux at f/1.4.

I will also include the image I posted in my other thread about FF and m4/3. That image was also hand held, base ISO of 160, Tv 1/90 using the same Nikon 50mmn Ai lens but at f/4.

In camera settings are with noise reduction and sharpening both set to off. I did sharpen to taste and also adjust the brightness to taste. BTW my tastes change all the time I did not do any noise reduction at all. This comparason was not done in an exact scientific method. Just to taste as I feel that's a good representation of my typical methods. I did use the Sunny 16 Rules for exposure with the Kodak, and then I also used the rear LCD for an idea as to what the exposure was like. That's how I use the Kodak normally anyway.

My favorite is still the first image from the other day using the Kodak FF DSLR and Nikon Ai 50mm f/1.4 lens set to f/4. That's because the subject violet is sharp, but still has OOF areas and bokeh and it contains more than just the subject flower in the field of view. I like that style. Maybe you do not.

I am sorry that the images do not all show exactly the same field of view. But all in all I like FF cameras. That kind of testing is what paid photographers do, like here on DPR.

First image is from my Kodak SLR/n using 50mm f/1.4 Ai lens at f/4 from the other thread. Note the conditions were dark and cloudy as a storm was just about to arrive. So the colors are daker:

Next is from today with Kodak SLR/n and 50mm f/1.4 at f/1.4. I overexposed this image when I changed the aperture from f/4 to f/1.4. But someone in the Kodak Talk forum suggested that I expose to the right (highlights anyway. I had to darken this image and I played around a litlle with the colors. You can notice the overexposed parts of the subject violet. I actually do not prefere overexposures, so if I really wanted to I would reshoot this and adjust the Tv because I have opened the Av.:

Next is from today with Olympus E-PL1 using Zorki 85mm f/2 at F/2. The 85mm provides a mold compression and also approx. 170mm field of view.:

Next is from today with Olympus E-PL1 using Nikon Ai 24mm f/2.8 at f/2.8. I do not seem to be able to get a narrow DOF from a 24mm f/2.8 lens on the E-PL1 and that was not a suprise. But I was able to match the field of view of my first image with the Kodak and 50mm prime. That's why I have included it.:

Last from today with Olympus E-PL1 using Leica Summilux first version from 1959 50mm f/1.4 at f/1.4. This has a mild compression effect and a somwhat narrow field of view. The f/1.4 does work but not as much as f/1.5 works on a FF. See the first image.

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