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Pen-F : the best Olympus ever for image quality ?

Started Apr 28, 2017 | Discussions thread
Jorginho Forum Pro • Posts: 15,370
One uses a noctircon the other the 45 mm f1.8...
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So that is incomparable. Better (micro)contrsast and surely, surely better sharpness is not all to strange. We know how good that Nocticron is.

It is beyond me, really really beyond me why dpreview uses a 56 mm 1.2 on a Fuji but thinks a 45 mm f1.8 (nice lens, but not Nocticron or Fuji 56 mm nice) is okey for the Em1.2. And this lens will especially hurt HiRes mode shots....Which they  also no longer test in low light/RAW...It is always something with  dpreview. Always inconsistent lately.

Most reviews do not put these two together, but Em1.2 has been pitted against X-T2 and seems to be very very close to it. Dpreview, petapixel (GFX 50s review shows a table for DR compairing it ti XT2 too), mirrorless comparisons they all say or show EM1.2 being very close to X-T2. I never heard that from Em-M1.2. DxO says Em1.2 sets a new standard, but when you read the review the difference in general is not at all big. Only dynamic range compared to PenF is a serious gap. Easily a 1 eV all through the range of ISO's.

So no: when we look at all aspect we can measure from a sensor, which dpreview does not provide btw, the E-M1,2 is the better sensor and the best one of all. GH5 probably uses the same sensor so I bet it will be close too.

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Olympus PEN E-PL5 Panasonic Lumix DMC-GH4 Olympus E-M1 II Panasonic Lumix G Vario 14-45mm F3.5-5.6 ASPH OIS Panasonic Lumix G 20mm F1.7 ASPH +8 more
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