Am i excepting to much from m4/3?

Trevor Carpenter wrote:

633 squadron wrote:

Hello evrevery,

A few weeks back i posted some of my photos of a recent airwhow and shared some of my thoughts about tge gear i was using. I'm not satisfied with the response i got. Not exatlye thth it was wrong just that i probebly could have worded it better. So bacically i was using the panasonic g7 and the 100-300 mk2. I was happy with the results i manged to get but i want to get even better shots next time. My problem is is that i would love to stay with m4/3 systems but I'M not sure that it would be able to get me the results i want. This is becouse i have a very small budget. So it is not possible for me to go and buy a em1 mk2 with the p100-400mm as much as i would like to. So my question is would si.ething like the gx9 em5 2 gh4 or any other m4/3 camera or lens system that will be able to get me better results than my current setup? Or am i better moving on to something better like a nikon d5500 with sigma 150-600? I might mention that i i will always buy used. I might also mention that i really really like m4)3for there exelent all in one capability and versatility. I have also looked at other cameras like fuji xt2 but fuji only do one super telephoto but it's very expensive.

Any of your help would be greatly appreciated.

In life, as in chess, forethought wins.

You had good response last time and a lot of that still applies, notably use the 100-300 on the best aperture probably F7.1 and F8 and expect to do some editing. You said last time that the final set of pictures had had no editing yet those pictures were pretty good if you had maximised their quality with a bit of editing.

The G7 is perfectly capable of taking decent airshow pics as is the 100-300 Mk 2 which you sort of proved with the pictures you posted. You may get a little better with the Nikon and sigma although it isn't going to jump out at you as such and you still have things such as atmospheric conditions to deal with and that combination is going to cost you as well as losing you some of the benefits of m4/3s.

I think you should stay with what you have got and as said so many times here, practice, practice, practice. You are much closer to getting it right than some correspondents and the time to be looking to upgrade will be when you have got it as good as possible with your existing kit and at the moment you still have a little way to go.

I have practiced assidulously with lots of gear since digital cameras were born, before that I practiced with film cameras as far as I could afford the film to put in them.

Digital film is cheap and I think that I still need to keep practicing as I have given up on simply buying gear hoping that it will make me a better photographer.

Great gear can make good images better but great gear cannot overcome poor technique.