Hi There Ricardo
I hope you're well
Hi Ricardo - whilst what you say is certainly true . . . . the difference in sensor size is really quite minimal-especially if you like the 4:3 ratio, but even so it's much less than an order of magnitude . . . or a stop. So similar sensor in APSc is likely to have less than a stop ISO advantage
If you like the 4:3rds ratio that does not change the nature of the photo sites.
The image stabilisation in the OMD will give you back that stop . . . and the fast µ43 lenses probably another one - so that all you're going to be losing is DOF - which, of course, may matter to you.
It depends on what subjects you shoot. If you are shooting moving subjects the image stabilization is not going to give you any advantages.
Well, you may be right, but there are plenty of excellent µ43 lenses which focus really well in low light with CDAF - if you want to do tracking focus in low light . . . well, we'll have to see, but it's an unusual requirement!
I wasn't talking about tracking in low light, I am talking about focusing in low light. I am not too worried about native m4/3rds lenses, I am more curious/want to see how 4/3rds lenses do here because those rely on PDAF, and I see the issue the Nikon 1 system has in lower light with PDAF- so wanted to see how Olympus solved this. Remember the 4/3rds user coming from an E-3/E-5 has a camera that can try to lock focus in lower light, that's why I want to know.
It seems to me that comparisons using Olympus software are unlikely to be useful because one learns skills with both the processing and the files, so new files in unfamiliar software are unlikely to be as good as familiar files in familiar software.
Well I have used Olympus software for a very very long time
But in reality it seems to me that an Olympus with a modern Sony sensor and no AA filter is going to produce decent image quality - beyond that it's ergonomics, functionality and available lenses which matters, and much as I loved my K5, it seems to me that the EM1 looks like a step forward in all these departments.
all the best
And I do not dispute at all what you just said. The EM1 will have quite decent and many times stellar/exceptional image quality (up to the photographer to realize that possibility of course, and hey, I still use my Q after all). And it will be a speed demon. That kit lens Olympus made looks very tasty and I think they did the right choices for ergonomics, size and quitting 4/3rds while still pouring enough resources to support an upgrade path.
This is I think the best professional digital camera Olympus has ever created. My comments are not meant as an exclusion of one system vs the other, they all have their trade offs. Yes, it is possible to like one system and while not buying another, still think that other is pretty darn good
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- Ricardo