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Absolute best value

Started Dec 10, 2015 | Discussions thread
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Re: Absolute best value

Fri13 wrote:

Dillon Frazier wrote:

lumen64 wrote:

I recently purchased an Olympus om-d e-m5 mark II, a 40-150 f2.8 Pro, a 12-40 f2.8 Pro, and a Sigma 19mm f2.8, all of which cost me around $3,300. I consider this a fairly complete package as far as focal lengths, and image quality are concerned. I have priced out different full frame and APSC (Sony, Canon, Nikon, Leica, Fujifilm, etc.) systems, and discovered that in order to get the equivalent of what I have in my Olympus m43 system would cost me at least $8,000, if I was very careful and wiling to cut some corners.

Canon doesn't need to do anything else than take 5D III and remove the mirror and prism, add there great EVF like in E-M1 (but in GX8 size, but optics from E-M1) and then copy most features from Olympus and Panasonic and call the day.

No need to change the camera body, nothing like that. Canon users would run to swap their bodies to new mirrorless or buy a second body. And then the game is over for others.

I agree.   But to get my money they would need to have a very good PDAF capability so that I could use my existing EF lenses. And no lens adapter.

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