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CameraLabTester: Who would you believe?
A poll of invisible sample votes from a faceless audience all over the world via the internet, or...
A few well known internet reviewers who may have been "influenced" in their opinions, or...
Actual real life worldwide camera sales of brand or specific camera, or...
Your wife's preference (or husband's addiction), or...
Your OWN independent unbiased real life experience and opinion?
I have personally handled, used and tried all 3 cameras.
They are all real winners.
But the real overall winner... is us.
The consumer.
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The EM-5 won because votes were shamelessly solicited. All posts that begged for votes should have been deleted by the moderators.
Not a word about the instability of the video autofocus, when panning or zooming. This is a deal-buster for me. There seems to be little attention to video by this reviewer. The sample photos are a bit over-exposed. It's probably necessary to routinely adjust the EV down in sunlight.
I'd like to know just what "engineering feat" Panasonic performed to make it possible to have F2.8 at 600mm. For many of my longrange shots, I wouldn't want an even more shallow DOF at 600mm. I'd have to manually stop-down the aperture, slowing the shooting process. If the aperture stayed wide in video mode at high zoom points and couldn't be manually controled, that would be bad. For many sports and wildlife videos, I'd want maximum DOF.
For what sort of video would this camera be suitable? Mainly for highly-controlled studio scenes. For outdoor and wildlife subjects, including sports, where moving subjects and panning are involved and a long DOF is needed, it would not be good. A full-frame CMOS sensor produces severe geometric warping at the margins with motion. This is why the largest sensors in dedicated video cameras are rarely larger than 2/3-inch. D-SLRs all have these limitations for video, but this reality seems to be overlooked by most people.