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Panasonic GM1 compared to NEX-5R. Should I consider switch?

Started Jan 5, 2014 | Questions thread
tt321
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Re: Panasonic GM1 compared to NEX-5R. Should I consider switch?

Normally I advocate keeping one's existing system and not switching. However, in this case there is enough motivation if closer focusing with a wider than normal lens plus compact size are important.

The 20/1.7 is sharper than the 24/1.8 across shared equivalent apertures at least in the MTF-50 sense, and does that with considerably smaller weight and size. Depending on which market you live in, the cost of GM1+20 could be similar to the 24 lens alone or even lower. If you keep the NEX as your main system and have budgeted the 24, then spending that budget on a GM1 and 20 will give you a second body for emergency cover w/out much weight/size penalty.

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