M4/3 is Awesome!

Zvonimir Tosic wrote:

Sergey_Green wrote:

Very good post, thank you.

May I ask you which Leica you use? I know nothing about their cameras.

Many. DLux, X2, X113, T, Q, etc. I think M optics is very good, but I don't like the slowness of the Leica M camera. Because today's world is about 6x faster than 60 years ago, of the time of Henri Cartier Bresson. At one stage I thought to get a Leica TL camera with two lenses, because i really loved he colour output, and because I liked the size, but I figured out Olympus Pen is even better because it has tilting screen and is faster and lenses are as good as, and I don't need to crawl in the mud to get low angle shots.

Leicas are very old-style, that is, mostly slow to use; only the X2 can be used in a relatively quick manner, and with one hand. It is very light too, which helps with my back and shoulder pain, so I kept it.

Tilting screen with Olympus cameras is a feature made for today's fast paced world and great versatility of use, good in environments which are cautious against cameras posing prominently, or honky cameras pointed right at people.

So the equipment should be minimal, but the output should be maximal, flexibility and versatility too.

In day to day use, I think of terms of influences, learning, and specific visual language. To me, crucial influence came from the books about photography; Robert Frank's 'The Americans' helped me a lot, and spent quite some time with it.

Then books and photographs by Steve McCurry and other authors. I read National Geographic magazines since I was a kid, always analysing images. So although I love cameras, I am even more interested in philosophical, storytelling and aesthetic aspect of the images. Once technical issue is solved, and I think it is, to me provided by Olympus philosophy, what's left is — hard work.

I had X2 some years ago, and I thought it was a very nice camera (not only pretty to look at). It was not an action camera, sure, but could be a good friend to anyone who like random shots. It could hold the shadows and the colors quite well I thought. Had the very good lens on it.

So you say mFT is better? It is different generation now, so hardly comparable.