Chris2210

"SPEAK UP A BIT so your subject can here you."

You might want to clean that up, Richard. But otherwise a great article and the very reason I bought into MfT. That format's OEMs has recently...

...while others will brook no criticism of their One True System.

Before you accuse me of being an 'outsider' my principal camera for most uses is a G9 - I think it's possibly in many ways the...

Probably because it's not on sale yet. I'd expect any of the L cameras and lenses would count as qualifying equipment. But no one outside of Panasonic and their reviewers have these for now.

@tkbslc
"I know the 35-100mm f2.8 is not the same as a 70-200mm f2.8 on FF. But I don't want a 70-200mm on FF!! I chose this for a reason."
Ditto - the G9 is currently the camera I use the most and...

A 70-200 f4 for the price of a 70-200 f2.8? How do they think that competes with the wider market? Or are they only trying to compete with Leica? Panasonic need to rethink their pricing fast.

@Kevin wilkins
"On the smart phone, the lens is a f/1.7 but the focal length is extremely short, therefore it creates a large depth of field."

And $h¡tloads of noise. Don't forget about the...

@tkblsc
The Panasonics are good lenses for sure [and they're now starting to look sensibly priced against later offerings], but you can get 24-70 and 70-200 f4 lenses for FF that are weather...

@BigSensorisbest
I joined this site in 1882, not only 117 years before Phil Askey started it up, but over a hundred years before the development of the world wide web. Beat that. And my camera...

@Kevin Wilkins

If a 2.8 lens is always the same, I'd be interested to hear why you don't shoot with a smartphone and how you think the physical opening of the optic on [say] an Apple f1.7 lens is...

@David_p
Actually that's the one thing that's NOT a problem - isolating subjects at long telephoto range happens at pretty large apertures and a little more depth of field isn't likely [at all] to...

[More] effective IBIS does seem to be, but again the efficacy drops off at longer focal lenghts [because clearly there’s greater travel] meaning OiS is more heavily relied upon at telephoto...

@Androole
Yes it was a ‘simplified’ view - there’s only so many characters you can type in these comments box. And your point about AF is a fair one. It’s probably also true that a MfT f2.8 would...

@Ru55el
Damn, I hadn't thought of sites like this one closing down if they weren't showered with marketing junkets. Or not.

A lot of the idea that the MfT system is smaller/lighter particularly for long zooms is predicated on the idea that aperture remains a constant.

As this site has fairly straightforwardly...

@toni2

No it's less than 2 stops between APSc and 35mm format. It's around two stops between 'FF' and MfT. That's cameras of the same generation - particularly if they happen [like the vast...

@alexnapierholland

I thought the facetiousness of the comment was obvious = to spell it out, it's ultimately Olympus customers who are paying for these 'free rides'. It must make some contribution...

@Passionateofphotography
The impression I got that the degree to which that happened with the EM1 II was fairly unprecedented, but I'd concede that's my anecdotal perception.

Any tips on how...

Incidentally you're also right about the use of IBIS in certain circumstances - I also have and EM1[mk1] and the IBIS is better still in the G9, especially with a lens that uses the dual system. It...

@Norman
The two stop penalty would apply to just about any current camera of the same generation. It's relatively straightforward physics - you're capturing four times the amount of light simply by...

Actually the IQ from MFT cameras is very acceptable in reasonable circumstances, but the assessment is a largely subjective one. One could easily say that only medium format offers 'acceptable'...