Many thanks for your feedback Bart, Tre, and Peter, much appreciated. I take it as a vote of confidence.
Isn’t it wonderful to have more than one fabulous option for handheld tele shots with the Olympus MFT and Sony FF mirrorless gear, and hopefully also with the new PL cameras and lenses.
For shots like those above of the bushtits I can and do use the electronic shutter of the E-M1 Mark II. For hummingbirds in flight only the electronic shutter of the A9 has a fast enough sensor readout time to effectively avoid rolling shutter artifacts. Of course one could use the noisy mechanical shutter of the E-M1.2 for that. Autofocus IMHO is sufficiently good for both systems. It’s fast and finally not focus hunting.
Overall I consider the A9 with its much faster silent shutter and blackout free EVF the superior camera. What I really want is an A9r with more pixels. Olympus needs to meet Sony’s camera advances.
With regards to optics the MFT camp has excellent lenses, no doubt about it. Sony has come up with great tele lenses as well. I really like the FE 90/2.8 MACRO G OSS, 70-300/4.5-5.6 G OSS, and the 100-400/4.5-5.6 GM OSS with both its teleconverters, that also will work with the new FE 400/2.8 lens announced for later this year. That lens will certainly be too heavy for me to shoot handheld, but I hope a monopod will be all I need.
So Bart raised a great question, which system beats the other? Thanks for that.
Dunno, I will keep an open mind and continue to use both, as both seem to have advantages in different areas. However, there is no doubt in my mind that both the Olympus and Sony systems are capable of delivering stunning image quality pictures. :thumbs: