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rethinking Micro Four Thirds in 2016

Started Feb 25, 2016 | Discussions thread
Franka T.L.
Franka T.L. Veteran Member • Posts: 8,161
Re: rethinking Micro Four Thirds in 2016

Alex Notpro wrote:

- Lenses must include a fast normal prime (50mm AOV), ultra-wide (14mm AOV) zoom, a fast normal zoom, a longish macro (105-120mm), a classic portrait prime (fast 85mm), a super-telephoto zoom, and a 35-50mm fast pancake prime. Nice-to-have a pancake normal zoom and a travel zoom (28-300). (MFT is king here)

- Would be nice-to-have access to 35, 50, and 85mm prime f/1.4-equivalent apertures for special situations (MFT comes short here)

All the other Q, pls refer to the camera spec sheets .. do your research, but here's this bit about your lens requirements so to speak

  • Fast normal , OK everybody got one at least
  • Ultra Wide Zoom , same, everyone got it 
  • Fast normal zoom , well what's normal, 24-70 typical to me is not normal at all, it does not cover long focal for real .. so I give this to M4/3 , the 12-40 just edge into the long focal with that 40mm but I am not too keen on the optics and 40 is only really edging into long focal technically, its not long enough, but that's just me , yours may differ. To me a true standard zoom need to go straight from wide to long focal minimal , OK that's not too hard , we have all the 24-120 or similar, but fast, probably none of them qualify. I guess Fujfilm's 16-55/2.8 qualify but Fujifilm not on the listed.
  • Long Focal Macro .. M4/3 solely fail, the longest macro is just 60mm and that simply do not provide the working distance allowed , in fact the long focal and tele macro is what all mirrorless fails, There is reason why the Nikkor 200mm and the Canon 180mm Macro remain popular despite their age.
  • Fast 85 , well everyone had one , no issue here
  • 35-50 fast pancake prime , sorry the only pancake prime that I can satisfactorily called fast do not belong here. Samsung got a 30mm/2.0 for their NX so everyone fails this one
  • pancake normal zoom, well I have yet to ever seen one .. if I am wrong, please enlighten me
  • Travel zoom, well again everybody got that covered
  • all the 35,50,85  at f/1.4 or better, well, Canon beat every others ... and you have the option to go with Sigma on EOS EF mount too
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