Now you might think that I have given up on image quality. Well, yes and no. Yes APS-C does have slightly better high ISO values and yes DOF is a little better on APS-C. But not as much as you might think! I have taken wonderful shots with APS-C and full frame cameras and I have taken astonishing pictures with 1” sized sensor cameras as well. Not to forget the mFT cameras from Olympus just as the Pen-F or the amazing OM-D E-M1 which I use mostly these days. I have paired the OM-D E-M1 with the Olympus M.ZUIKO DIGITAL ED 12‑40mm 1:2.8 PRO. And by the way in my opinion the whole DOF discussion is pointless anyway. A portrait photographer who is taking pictures for large billboards will probably go for a medium format system or a full frame camera with excellent f/1.4 lenses.
I personally don´t print my pictures larger than 60 x 45 cm for the 4:3 format. But I would not have any problems in printing the pictures even larger. Usually I look at my photographs on my Laptop, a 40” TV Screen with Full HD resolution (1920×1080) or maybe as a print. What do you do with your shots? How many prints larger than 60x45cm have you done lately? And what about uploading your shots to Flickr, 500px, Instagram, YouPic or any other picture hoster? Do you sell your photographs? I am guessing that most of us don´t really get any cash out of our photographs.
That for me was one of the main reasons to go for Olympus´s camera gear as well. I don´t earn money with my photography. I would love to as most of us, but I don´t! Anybody hear out there? If you are interested in working together with me you can contact me via the comment section, email or Facebook.
Really? Image quality on a micro Four Thirds camera with only 16MPx on its so small sensor? Yes image quality. Just take a look at these two photographs. The first on is the un edited file which I exported from raw out of Lightroom without any corrections and the second is the same raw file but this time with some editing done to it. The editing is to my liking and might not be your taste at all. It does however show you what is possible with a more or less modern camera. Yes I know, the sensor tech inside is from 2013.
In Body Image Stabilization or in short IBIS! This for me was and is one killer feature with the Olympus body’s. I don´t need to push the ISO values as high as with other cameras. Where I was shooting at ISO1600 or even 3200 on the Fuji or the Sony cameras I had, I can use ISO 800 on the Olympus body. Hell I even managed to shoot at an astonishing 3.2 seconds with the Pen-F the other day and the photograph was sharp. I can tell you this is nothing short of amazing. And it does not stop there. With the Olympus OM-D E-M1 MK2 and the M.Zuiko 12-100 f/4 lens Olympus introduced a new function called dual IS. I myself have not tested this yet but I would love to.
The only two lenses in my line up are currently the M.ZUIKO DIGITAL ED 12‑40mm 1:2.8 PRO and the M.Zuiko 17mm f/1.8. Do I want some other lenses? Hell yes. On my wish list I have some like the M.ZUIKO DIGITAL ED 7‑14mm 1:2.8 PRO and the M.ZUIKO DIGITAL ED 40‑150mm 1:2.8 PRO. I would also love to try the M.ZUIKO DIGITAL ED 75mm 1:1.8 and what about the relatively new M.ZUIKO DIGITAL ED 12‑100mm 1:4 PRO? Not to forget all the lenses. Be that from Olympus, Panasonic, Samyang and Tamron just to name a few brands.
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