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Travel with mFT. Advice on lens/body choice.

Started Mar 31, 2016 | Questions thread
aliasfox Senior Member • Posts: 1,375
Re: Travel with mFT. Advice on lens/body choice.

Can't really go wrong with any of your kit, to be honest.

I'd probably pick the E-M10 body:

- The body itself is the same size as the E-PL6, just with the EVF permanently attached

- Better stabilization than the E-PL6

- Better dynamic range and low light than the GX1

As for lenses, I've walked around foreign cities with just a 17mm and a 45mm. The 17mm wasn't quite wide enough in the narrowest streets and smallest squares in Stockholm, but it also allowed for some interesting perspectives as I tried to squeeze everything I wanted into the frame. The 45mm was definitely useful when I wanted something longer - and with a 2x digital crop, you can get 90mm (180mm eFL) out of 8MP, which is plenty functional on the long end. The primes also let you shoot indoors and into evenings courtesy of the larger apertures.

The 20mm is a pretty close analogue to the 17mm, so I'd probably go with a 20mm/45mm kit. Just avoid under-exposing and pulling shadows too much on the 20mm and you should be fine (potential for low light, high ISO banding).

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Olympus XZ-1 Olympus PEN E-PM2 Olympus E-M1 Panasonic Lumix DMC-GM5 Olympus E-M5 II +17 more
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