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Buy now a 760D or wait for the upcoming model?

Started Jan 6, 2016 | Discussions thread
davev8
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Re: Buy now a 760D or wait for the upcoming model?

junk1 wrote:

It's hard to decide. The Olympus OMD-M5 mkII (MkII = 2nd version in other words) has the cool 40MP mode which would be a lot of fun, but it's a heavy and expensive camera (which defeats the purpose of m43 in my opinion - to be smaller and lighter).

Olympus more recently came out with the M10 mkII for less money, and it weighs less, but it lacks the 40MP mode. It also tends to come with the smaller "EZ" lens, which is smaller, but costs more but is not as sharp as the normal Olympus kit lens.

For just $320, Olympus has the PL6 body and two decent lenses (refurbished).

Hopefully Olympus will replace the PL7 "PEN" model soon. The "PL" models are moderately smaller versions of their large bodies.

Panasonic GF7 is a nice (smallish) size, and the 12-32 kit lens is pretty good and very small.

Panasonic has better video than Olympus, and Canon.

Olympus has good in-body stabilization versus Panasonic uses lens stabilization.

i did have a look at mFT but this may sound daft but i find its no smaller than other formats....i like narrow depth of field  which means i need a lense 2 stop faster with mFT to get the same DOF  so a full frame lens say 35mm f2.8 will need a  around 17 or 18mm  F1.4 and by the law a physics the lens ends up the same size  or a bigger  than FFlook here and a lot of the mFT body's seem as big or bigger than  the small  APS-c body's and evan FF look here ....i am not saying you cannot have a small mFT system but you will lose some control over DOF

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