Travel with mFT. Advice on lens/body choice.

aliasfox wrote:

Chris Prinos wrote:

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 digital crop may help w/ visualization, but the resolution hit is bigger than you suggest. A 2x crop will cut your resolution by a factor of 4x (so, 4 effective MP, not 8MP).

You're right. I avoid doing work that requires thinking in the morning (paperwork and emails instead), it looks like I should avoid writing posts that require thinking, as well.

I've seen other members of this forum swear by the digital teleconverter in-camera; I usually just crop in post processing to get the framing I want. Either way, a 45mm lens on a 16MP sensor should give a fair amount of working room for someone who likes working in short-telephoto.

Actually the digital tele converter is supposed to over sample the cropped portion of the sensor and the RAW files you end up with are larger than you would get by simply cropping.

I've run experiments and it is very hard to tell the difference between a digital teleconverter shot and a cropped shot in post processing but there is a slight advantage to the digital teleconverter. That advantage however is outweighed in my opinion by difficulty in framing of a smaller image, put differently I'd rather crop in on my subject from a full image than use the teleconverter and possibly cut off part of the subject.