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Help with Micro 4/3 lens and mounts

Started Apr 12, 2018 | Discussions thread
Aquaholic
OP Aquaholic Regular Member • Posts: 397
Re: Help with Micro 4/3 lens and mounts

Guy Parsons wrote:

Mirrorless is a whole range of cameras that do not use that flippy mirror thing.

Olympus and Panasonic pioneered that system camera design with the 4/3 inch size sensor. Sony variously use FF and APS-C sized sensors with totally different mount design and distance from mount to sensor. Other makers like Canon also have her own ideas that also make them incompatible with the vast range of M4/3 bodies and lenses available.

M4/3 was designed from ground up to be a digital camera system, the rest seem to be coming at it with various constrictive overheads it seems.

Basically M4/3 is only M4/3 and the other makers have other names for their offerings.

Regards.............Guy

Guy,

Thank you for the very nicely layman's explanation of the M4/3 format.

Many thanks,
Houston

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