Pocketable m43?

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David Chien wrote:

1) http://m43photo.blogspot.com/2010/01/micro-four-thirds-lens-lineup.html

The handful of pancake (thin) lenses are shown here.

Thanks question

here is if I can find a very compact lens at a bargain price. Finding a second hand four thirds body looks easy (50-80 euros) but what about the lens?

2) When buying the GF* series, do think about whether video quality is of any importance. Pretty much only the latest GF6/GM1 series are worth talking about. The rest are of pretty poor quality (poor highlight capture, aliasing, moire, etc) - GF1-GF5.

Photographyblog video samples will show you what to expect from each.

3) GF3 is ~$100 body/$200 + kit lens used; GF5 is ~$200 body on ebay and elsewhere.

Various Olympus 4/3rds like the E-PL1, etc. at this price range, too, with similar IQ.

You do get a few more features in the GF5, but they're both on the old 12MP sensor (unlike the GF6/GM1 on the 16MP sensor), so you're not really getting much better image quality with the GF5.

4) Sony RX100 ~$400 will easily be pocketable, smaller, cover a decent zoom range, and kill anything below the GM1.

http://www.dkamera.de/testbericht/sony-cyber-shot-dsc-rx100/bildqualitaet.html
The moment you start asking for 'better' image quality off a 4/3rds, then you're looking at the $500+ GM1 + $300+ quality prime or $800+ quality zoom lens (assuming AF, modern lenses; you can always mount far cheaper $25-100 used manual lenses with cheap adapters). Otherwise, you'll simply be dumping money into an 'obsolete' 4/3rds sensor camera that won't give you the image quality, even with a nice lens, to seriously beat a RX100.

If you compare the $600 RX100M2 vs a GM1, you'll even see how the kit GM1 lens is putting the GM1 behind the RX100M2! You'd have to add that nice lens to the GM1 to even begin to think about getting better IQ.