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 p.3 #18 · Confused on which smaller camera system to invest in... | |
No experience with the other models, I have well over 3000 pics with the OM-D since Oly delivered it to me on release day. I have no image quality complaints, even at 100%. I won't say it's perfect, but in my post processing I've never had any real complaints about the lens and sensor. Mind you, I'm not terribly picky, especially since most of my output is to iPad and Facebook (with only occasional large prints for my own use), and I've never had D800s and Zeiss lenses. I'm also looking from a landscape/street/general photography perspective. I'm not shooting weddings or action with this camera. I do prefer my Nikon D2xs and Tokina 11-16, especially since anything serious I do is at base ISO, but that's a much heavier package. A pro would have to judge his client base and his costs, but I think a competent photographer can do very well with it. I also play around with it at ISO 6400 and I haven't really disappointed by it at that ISO, though there is clearly often noise, lost dynamic range, and color shifts, and again recall that I'm not extremely picky.
[ETA: I have long fingers on a big hand. I don't like the OM-D's buttons, and I don't like its menu system, but I can live with them]
I think the m4/3's greatest strength is the variety of lenses, and this alone IMO is a decent reason to choose the system. With any of the Oly primes (I have 12 f/2, a 60 f/2.8 - the latter is looking to be a very very good lens), the Panny 2.8 zooms or the Voightlanders (LOVE the 25mm f/0.95, much more than any of the Nikkor 50/35 f/1.8s or f/1.4s on their respective 50mm equivalent mounts), I think the lens quality and variety is excellent, and even with 3-4 lenses it's really portable. One really nice thing is that these things are usually at least half the size of an APS-C equivalent, and if you really want to go small an OM-D with a Panny 14mm prime is really small and fairly sharp. Get one of their new smaller cameras (or even better a previous generation smaller camera) and you have something the size of a point and shoot, with a lot of interchangeable lens options.
I rejected the Sony because of the limited lens selection. Fuji will soon have IMO a sufficient range of lenses, but I wanted to start running with a reasonably full kit months ago, and didn't want to wait. For my part, I flirt with getting one of the smaller cameras as a backup body (previous generation bodies at Cameta are waay cheaper than and have better performance than all but the biggest sensor point and shoots) - again, with the small pancakes like the 14mm, these small m4/3cameras are almost small point and shoot sized. But beyond that, I have no intention of upgrading my OM-D anytime in the next year, especially since the market is in such flux. I still keep my NIkon DX kit, though.
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on which smaller camera system to invest in. I am selling my DSLR gear for a smaller system and I am totally stumped on what to invest in. I've been researching the Oly OMD, the Fuji X Pro 1 or xe-1, and the NEX systems, but I am at a loss. I know that a smaller camera will not give me the same results as a full frame DSLR, but I still want great image quality. The OMD images look flat to me, but I'm scared of the X Pro-1's sluggy focusing.