Those who don't care are loving it as a handheld FF, APSC, m43 zoom, and that's great for them. Those who do care might think about showing it some respect, plunking it onto a tripod, and letting stretch its wings and fly.
Why not all the above? It is a bit anthropomorphic to ascribe the feeling of respect or disrespect to a camera. It’s a camera and what seems a very versatile one, for Pete’s sake.
I did mean, all of the above. Those Jonas Rask crop photos look like APSC and m43 to me, but lovely APSC and m43, it is one totally legit way to enjoy the camera and people have every right to enjoy the camera that way.
But the launch point here was complaints about the lens, that supposedly it's mediocre. I'm just saying, people are using it cropped, and also walking around with it, but then complaining about the lens. That's not the most likely way to get the Wow factor out of this lens, same with any non-IBIS medium or large format creature. The Wow factor will be the full sensor, beckoned and beguiled onto a nice secure perch where it can burst into song. I've seen some spectacular images um, flit by, here and there from this camera, and they were indeed full 28mm equivalent, in good light, tripod.
As for anthropomorphism, that is ascribing
human characteristics to something, which is simply too limiting when one is taking the Shinto view, the
anima mundi view. The Miyazaki view, perhaps one might venture. I had a teacher who used to say, "The instrument will teach you how it wants to be played." I wouldn't presume to start a Sunday Salon thread on the topic, but . . can this not be so of cameras?
. Still, I use OIS on my Qs.
