Is the Micro Four third image ful image or cropped (like APS-C)?

Newbie q - I am under the impression that the Micro_4/3 although having a smaller sensor compared to aps-c, will contain full image with the use of standard fitted lenses.

I am a Pentax owner and looking for a compact travel camera like Omlympus PEN E-PL6

If you use a lens designed for a larger sensor on a smaller sensor you will only record the central part of the image that lens is designed to create. The image will still be a full image, but just not as wide an angle of view as on the larger sensor. If this is what you mean by cropped, then yes.

A full frame sensor will crop the image from a medium format lens.

An APS-c sensor will crop the image from a full frame lens

A m4/3 sensor will crop the image from an APS-c lens

A Nikon 1 sensor will crop the image from a m4/3 lens

Etc etc

Micro 4/3 lenses are designed to match the micro 4/3 sensor size, which is smaller than full frame and APS-c sensors. This is why many m4/3 lenses are smaller than the alternative full frame or APS-c lenses which would give the same angle of view in your photo... They are designed to only cover the area of the smaller m4/3 sensor.

Alternatively, if you try to use a lens designed for a smaller sensor on a larger sensor you will end up with very heavy vignetting or an image which is just a circle in the middle of your photo. That is because the lens is not designed to or able to project an image which will cover all of the larger sensor.

Hope that helps?