Jeff

Would an Olympus Air do the trick?  Light weight, small, and electronic shutter cover the requirements.  Not to mention the flexibility of using a detached smartphone for the interface.

That's what has been said with every new innovation in photography.

It's not an all or nothing deal.  Whatever other gear you may have, a smartphone with a capable camera is a very nice thing to be packing when the opportunity arises.

Well, from my understanding of the technology, you're correct. The normal lens is a 26mm equivalent, and the telephoto is a 77mm equivalent, so a 45mm focal length would be some blend of images ...

Sure, if your used a7r2 can take pictures without a lens. I thought you said you'd buy a smartphone if it had a 45mm (equiv) lens. Well, it does. Are you going to buy it?

Just hit the 2x button on your iPhone Pro.  It's pretty decent, too.

I wonder where most of those low-spec APS-C users will go.  Will they trade in for full-frame, or will they update their smartphones and just leave their cameras on the shelf? iPhone 13 Pro, for ...

The Canon RF system is clearly evolving into something that will appeal to many different photographers, including those of us in the MFT fold who prize light, compact gear. Tempting, indeed. But ...

Pre-capture on my EM1X is a great feature for wildlife and bird shooting!  Use it regularly.

In the mid-80's my wife and I decided to "take a summer off", employers be damned. No kids, no pets, no mortgage, so why not. Off to east africa we went, traveling with a small like-minded group ...

Michael ... thanks for the background.  We've interacted here and there over the years, and share much of the same path through good ol' 1041 and Olympus gear. Happy shooting!

The subject line about covers the why part. Over the years, I've learned a lot from the mFT forums, and from some of the other forums that pertain to the issues of shooting smaller formats. For ...

I look around at posts on the MF forum with the idea that some day I might want to add MF to my kit. Most posts are generally helpful, but then along comes this one that just so perfectly lays out ...

I shot plenty of tri-X back in the day, with a lot of experimentation with developers, pushing to ridiculous ISO's, developing temperatures, and all the rest.  But my actual point was the ...

This is street photography, not landscapes, recalling the Leica + Tri-X aesthetic of the mid-century masters of the genre. It may not be your cup of tea, but I rather like these images. What do ...

It's a solid chunk of glass, but for 150mm equiv it's pretty darn small.  Here's a comparison of an EP7 + 75/1.8 to a Nikon Z FC + 105/2.8, for example ...

The trouble back then was the very high cost of FF digital. This was the day of the Nikon D1 and D1X, and the Kodak DCS. Olympus came out with the E-10 with that marvelous f/2-2.4 lens, which could ...

Hi Rick ... you're describing the reasons why I picked up the 150/2 back when our kids were playing HS hockey. Miserable lighting, always shooting on the ragged edge of getting any images at all.  ...

I have the 150/2 and use it the mmf-3 adapter ring on the EM1X. Great combo, beautiful images.  It focuses accurately and reasonably quickly, but not for continuous action sports.  The 40-150/2.8 ...