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Good cameras that slipped through the cracks.

Started Sep 13, 2021 | Discussions thread
Stephen Strangways
Stephen Strangways Contributing Member • Posts: 968
Re: Good cameras that slipped through the cracks.

Ken Croft wrote:

Terribly sorry but I just do not believe this. I have both those lenses and also 16 and 20 mpixel Olympus cameras, and no camera with a small imager like the Olympus xz or stylus series produces comparable images. I wonder if you have the gear that you mention. But if you do, I am very happy for you.

I did have the gear that I mentioned - I sold the 14-150 and all four copies of the 40-150 R that I've owned, after doing some comparison tests. Still have the Stylus 1, two XZ-1, and an XZ-2.

I can probably dig the images up and post them here if you don't want to perform your own tests. In the meantime, someone else did a comparison here:

https://www.dpreview.com/forums/thread/4523382

I compared the actual practical usage of the lenses - the Stylus 1 at f/2.8 and the 40-150 at f/4 or f/5.6, therefore the mft body at one or two stops higher ISO to give the same shutter speed. A larger imager with potentially less noise doesn't have much of an advantage when the lens is quite a bit slower.

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