Not a flame war. A legitimate lens comparison

Eric Nepean wrote:

golfhov wrote:

Glen Barrington wrote:

I think you got what you wanted.

Yes and no. I wanted to be sure I was right about one simple thing. Lenses and lenses only. Equivelant lenses. I did get the nice point that m43 and apsc both open up smaller less expensive lenses as long as someone is willong to forgo equivelant depth of feild. Instead opened up an ever persistent flame war.

Sigh

In my mind, your comparison misses the essential reasons for choosing an M43 system.

Was I comparing the entire system?

The reasons I chose, and stay, with M43 are

1) Smaller and larger camera bodies available that share the same lens system. Smaller camera does not necessarily imply lower quality sensor.

This is a great point. However it is not universal that sensor size correlates with a smaller camera. This would be a model by model comparison along with the various features

2) Camera bodies from different vendors with different feature set/evolution available that share the same lens system

M 4/3 definitely seems to win the variety discussion. The variety obviously does not matter if a system has the lenses you want. Samsung only has like 10 lenses. If those lenses are what you want it would be irrelevant

3) High quality lenses available for smaller sensor size

There are some great m4/3 lenses

4) High degree of compatibility with lenses from other systems, including 4/3 and Canon EF with full AF and AE

Are the canon ef lenses not compatible with practically every single mirorrless. ALong with a myriad of other non native lenses.

5) Really good stabilization on most lenses

On every model? There are stabilized apsc and full frame also

6) Possible to put together a reasonably high quality reasonably small system for affordable cost

Yes and no. The m4/3 seems to be the least expensive for the total package with native lenses depending on how you assemble your kit. These inexpensive lenses will not have the same look as the same aperture lenses from a larger sensor kit

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Eric
When the light is gone, the picture is gone ....

At the end of the day I am not saying there is anything wrong with m4/3. I was just looking at the stereotype that you can get smaller cheaper lenses as the sensor size decreases. The big problem I see is new camera users do not understand this issue and they buy a system and cannot figure out why they cannot get any background separation on their 2.8 lens.