mmartel

Great photo!

If I were a pro, as it sounds like you are, I'd also choose the Oly lens, and for the same reasons. You know you're delivering the best your system can get to a client. Durability matters. And ...

No, but I also own and shoot with sharp primes like the razor sharp Panasonic 42mm f1.7 and the excellent Sigma 30mm f1.4. My 14-140mm isn't as sharp off-center as those primes, but not every shot ...

Ah. Then it should be any easy choice. Get the Oly 12-100mm. Once you're used to $50 a bottle wine, anything less will taste like bath water.

This will be an unpopular take but I'll put this out there anyway. The Panasonic 14-140mm II is a very good lens. For the price, size, weight, and general quality across the zoom range, it's the ...

Maybe because some people -- pros or skilled amateurs -- want or require more DR and less noise than others? Some people shoot high DR scenes. Some shoot in even, flat lighting. Some shoot in near ...

Cool, bro. Carry on.

I know you're going to get shade thrown at you by people who can't stand to hear from people who have criticisms of the m43 system. Ignore them. Switching systems (or using multiple systems/formats ...

This ^^^ Many times I want to shoot 4k video at 28mm or wider. You need "specialty" lenses (i.e., something that can get down to 22mm or less) to do that on a GX9 due to the 1.25x crop, but you can ...

I was also going to mention the added 4k crop as the #1 drawback of the GX9. It doesn't sound that annoying, but I personally find even the 1.1x crop in 4x on the GX85 rather annoying. For someone ...

Whether Oly produces better OOC JPEG is a matter of taste. I won't disagree with you on that point. However, as a GX85 owner who used Nikon DX for about 8 years prior to moving to MFT, I have to ...

thanks so much for sharing your perspective. This is really helpful.

I can understand the attraction of a good 1" sensor camera with a good lens. Before coming to MFT I shot Nikon 1 (and DX) and my favorite lens for that system was the 17mm f1.8. Great lightweight ...

Thank you for the suggestion. I have not tried the Oly 12mm f2.0, as I normally don't shoot many photos at that wide of a focal length; even with landscapes. Wide and ultrawide simply haven't been ...

Your post really nails it. The Oly 17mm f1.8 is a special lens. It's hard to put words to the look of its rendering exactly without sounding a bit like a drunk poet going way overboard. But if I ...

I agree and disagree with you on the Sigma 30mm f1.4. With my copy, I see lateral chromatic aberration even when stopping down in copious and disappointing amounts. One really needs to shoot RAW ...

Background: I shot 1" sensor Nikon 1 series for several years as my travel and hiking kit (along with Nikon Dxxxx APS-C for my "serious" photography LOL) before getting rid of it all and going ...

Can't agree with you more on the DxO 4 PhotoLab with Deep PRIME NR. It is really amazing -- glacially slow on my old Mac, but amazing. The the previous PRIME NR was already very, very good. But ...

I have the Sigma 30mm f1.4 myself and have gained a bit more experience with it recently for portraits. I also have the Pana 42.5mm f1.7. Here are my thoughts: Both are quite nice lenses, both very ...

My sympathies to you, Don. It's possible to be so broken that only rest will give you time needed to heal. But the suggestion that preventative strength training is a myth? Well, you're entitled to ...