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Compact kit with best IQ for travel?

Started Dec 18, 2017 | Discussions thread
MT Senior Member • Posts: 1,943
Re: Compact kit with best IQ for travel?

For me, this is a simple one as I travel with two GM5. Since you want small, light and 'BEST IQ', here's what I actually travel with (Though I use two Gm5 so I don't have to swap lenses as often):

GM5 body

Prime - Rokinon 8.5mm fisheye lens. Wide open, it provides me pixel sharp edge to edge sharpness, and hand hold down to 1/20 second with zero problems.

Prime - Panasonic 15mm f1.7.

Prime - Pansonic 42.5mm f1.7, for the built in image stabilization.

If you want a small zoom, the Panasonic 12-35mm consumer zoom though I hardly ever use that except for daytime outdoors while fishing or something like that.

The entire package is very small, lightweight, but give you prime performance in a MFT packages and gets very close in results to the larger bodies and pro lenses if you handle it right.

One key to the GM5 is the panorama mode. I learned to use it (pan slowly) and with the 15mm, I can do a lot of shots in Panorama that is very excellent for landscape when I don't have wider lenses or want a different perspective from the Rokinon.

I do also own the larger lenses such as 42.5/1.2, 12-40/2.8, 25/1.4 etc but the small primes above is what I would travel with.

Finally, going out of the MFT, another option if budget allows is simply the superb Sony A7RIII with their new 24-105/4 lens. All in one that will outperform the mft but cost $$$$.

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