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Probably, as it were the enthusiasts buying SHG 4/3 lenses a few years ago. They are the best m4/3 clients I guess, always ready to buy the best lenses available, always ready to defend the ...

Good point, that's the reality today. Probably right, but this reasoning applied to 4/3 some years ago too, and we know the result. Let's see what will happen in the next years. I just personally ...

What attracted most people into the m4/3 system was good IQ in a compact system. Building big cameras and lenses around a small sensor may please some people (the core user base), but is not really ...

The 4/3 system died because it wasn't profitable to Olympus. The "Big Camera/Big Lenses/Small Sensor" combination wasn't a winner and didn't convinced a lot of people. Then came m4/3 : "Small ...

I hope your enthusiasm will be proved right. I'm rather sckeptical about the very expensive cameras and lenses trend for m4/3, but I agree that their m4/3 PRO offering is much better and wiser than ...

If iconic lenses become relics, what's the point? No doubt they were impressive and iconic, but they didn't prevent the 4/3 system to die. m4/3 system isn't yet in this situation hopefully. But ...

Canon is the most used system by professional photographers. Olympus is mostly used by amateurs. You can't really compare L lens demand with PRO lens demand. That said, manufacturers often try to ...

They were "happy" with their 4/3 system, but It didn't prevent to be a fiasco.

Just one : Any measured data about "demand" to back up this statement?

Absolutely. Samsung sells nearly 2x more smartphones per year than Apple. Huawei is quickly growing and about to sell the same amount of units than apple. According to Gartner, Inc., Apple only ...

Nowadays, entry level and mid level cameras + lenses sales are being killed by smartphones. As a consequence, unfortunately, new cheap/small cameras and lenses, those that make very sense for the ...

It's interesting that many youngsters have a kind of nostalgia for the past.
Maybe because the world we gave them is not very nice ?
I think for some it's more than a fashion. It's a refusal to be...

Make sense. Every system has its holy trinity ;-)

Excellent analogy. Brand identification is often almost religious :-D

Well, Canon cameras have also PASM modes, and m4/3 cameras have Auto mode too...

This is a strange mindset, often propagated on this forum. But I wonder : if one love photography, how can one "hate" a tool that makes photographs?

Smart marketing ! Every fashionata should hang around with one of those in around their neck! ;-) Seriously, you're right. In every european touristic places I visited, I rarely saw mirrorless cameras.

What gives that there's still hope! I'm happy to read that some young people prefer proper cameras to phones. ;-)

That explains it. So DXOmark isn't measuring the "real" transmissivity of a lens, but a lens-sensor combination. Thanks for your great answer that helps to make things a bit clearer :-)

I'm afraid we are misscommunicating. I was just saying that sensor stack could have an effect on DXO measurement results, due to DXO methodology. Never implied it has an effect on effective T stop ...