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Is EF-M mount worth investing for a new user

Started 8 months ago | Questions thread
jackwelch Senior Member • Posts: 1,087
Re: Is EF-M mount worth investing for a new user

nnowak wrote:

It sounds like you have your heart set on a specific sensor size more than any specific capabilities.

What camera are you using right now? What do you like about it and what do you dislike? What do you find limiting with your current gear that you are hoping to improve upon? Are there any types of photography that are a priority (wildlife, portraits, sports, landscapes, etc)?

My best camera right now is the Canon G3X and Panasonic FZ2500 (both are 1 inch sensors) - I guess the G3X makes me lean towards the Canon M3 because I'm quite happy with the G3X.

The next logical step would then be larger sensor, something like a M43 or APSC, but really as I mentioned above, I am more of a hobbyist (I just love to try things out) - but at the same time, I don't really want to spend too much.

I want to know what am I getting from an APSC that I'm missing on the 1-inch, how much better is low light or night shooting compared to a 1-inch, is the image quality noticably better (stuff like that).

I'm into superzooms mainly (wildlife) and I have a few converters (I hope they can work with the m3).

So roughly if it works out, I'd have an APSC camera with equivalent focal length of 320mm + a 1.7x TC would give me 544mm equivalent. (I don't mind spending $400 to test this, anything more I'd think is too expensive)

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