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How many megapixels do you want in an M?

Started May 11, 2019 | Polls thread
Tim van der Leeuw Senior Member • Posts: 1,363
Re: How many megapixels do you want in an M?

R2D2 wrote:

+3 These two systems (M and R) are for shooters with entirely different priorities. Make the right choice even if it hurts.

R2

I'm almost a complete beginner when it comes to photography. I bought the M5 about a year ago not knowing what my style of shooting would be, or anything.

I bought it because it is light, small, has small light lenses, and good, flexible controls. And fit within the budget I had at the time.

I didn't yet know what limits the camera, sensor, or lens-system would have and how that would impact me. Yeah, I know from reading reviews that the sensor wouldn't be as good as a comparably priced Nikon DSLR, but I liked the compactness of mirrorless and couldn't yet see how exactly it would affect me.

Well, regards to what shooter I am, it turns out I like macros (flowers and insects), landscapes (to some degree), and nighttime shooting (with or without the stars being very prominent).

For both insects and nighttime shooting I'd like to be able to drop the ISO quite high so I can have a faster shutter-time for a given aperture.

I'm longingly looking at a lot of gear and evaluating what it could do for my shooting but in the end, I'll probably stay with the M5 for a while and save up money for a good system in a year or two, or spend it on other accessories such as an extra lens here or a filter there.

In the end I hope to have 2 bodies and lenses I can use on both, so that I can use 2 lenses without much hassle and use each body for it's own strengths.

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