Shashin
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In what way?Noise is a product of the sensor size, though.
You are reading either more into what I said or not getting what I said. Very simple statement: for an equivalent 35mm FoV, m4/3 has an f/0.95 speed lens. That is it.Shashin, you were the one who said, "But they do have an f/0.95 equivalent. And who has a 35mm equivalent at f/0.95?"
Not comparing formats. Just saying that for a certain FoV, this is the fastest lens out there. And there is one big benefit, it is two stops faster, which, if you really care about noise, lets you use ISOs two stops slower for a particular shutter speed under a particular luminance level.Maybe I'm wrong, but your statement implied that m4/3 having a f.95 lens is some kind of advantage over a larger format that doesn't have such a lens. The simple point that we're trying to make is that there isn't usable advantage to the .95 lens on a m4/3 camera over an f1.9 lens on a 35mm camera if the end result is the same.
Really? That sounds very complicated. I usually just take my best camera and control it to get the results I need.I don't compare everything to 35mm. I use several formats, and, I'd imagine, like most photographers, I plan things in terms of field of view, DOF and the ability to enlarge (i.e. noise,) both of which are sliding scales amongst different formats, and both of which have general equivalents as the sensor sizes change.
Right, so your choose the right format for what you need and you forget about equivalency when you use it. Actually, I find the focal length is important because it lets me know my FoV and the aperture lets me know how fast I can shoot. Most photographers I know feel the same way.A 6mm lens is still a 6mm lens on an iPhone and a 6x6 camera, and an f1.2 lens is still an f1.2 lens on an aps-c camera and a 35mm camera, but the results vary depending on the format, and it makes sense to understand that sliding scale as you move from format to format. It doesn't really matter to me what the lens says, as Paratom mentioned, but, rather, the final output. I think that's all we're trying to get at.
For my pretty innocuous post, it certainly has become very a complicated conversation.