Which has better background blurriness?APSC 50mm vs M43 75mm

ageminmo wrote:

I was researching to buy a light combo for doing portraits and I enjoyed using GM1 with Olympus 45mm but I know the bokeh of Sony 50mm is better. The question now is when compared to Oly 75mm, which has more bokeh between these two cameras:

Any M43 camera with Olympus 75mm F1.8

versus

Any Emount APSC with Sony 50mm F1.8

COnsidering the effective aperture calculation for both?

I read that you can compare the background blurriness by dividing the focal length and the aperture.

So the Olympus combo will yield a ratio of ~42 and the Sony combo will yield ~28. That's a lot!

But they are from different systems, so if I will use their effective apperture..

Olympus 75mm will have 21[75/(1.8x2)] and SEL50 will have 18[50/(1.8x1.5)].

Then they are almost the same! WIth the sony combo, I dont need to be much farther to the subject and the body+lens combo is lighter. (Of course, I would be needing a good IBIS body like GX7, EM5, EM1, EPM2 etc and not GM1/GM5)

While I do not dispute your calculations, what about angle of view provided by the focal lengths?  The FF angle of view equivalent of the 75mm is 150mm, while the 50mm is 100mm.  I have not done any calculations, but it seems that the longer focal length does a lot to background blur, even at smaller apertures (e.g. 150mm @ f5.6) ...this is just observation from personal experience, not calculations.