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Why would you say that µFT isn't the best wildlife body? There the long range lenses shine (do I need to say 150-400/4.5?). Also wildlife often means hiking thr
by _ph_ 4y ago
Why would you say that µFT isn't the best wildlife body? There the long range lenses shine (do I need to say 150-400/4.5?). Also wildlife often means hiking through the wild, where µFT also has big advantages.
- eropple 4y agoI mean, I shoot only M43, so I'd do it because I wouldn't have anything else on hand, but the smaller sensor does present quality challenges a full-frame doesn't and modern full-frames can get pretty small while still being able to pack a pretty long lens (though as you say, the long M43 lenses are pretty tiny!). If money's no object, I would think most folks would pick a Nikon Z9 or the like over an M43 option. You can totally get fine pictures out of the M43 in a wildlife/outdoors setting for sure. (The smaller M43 lenses are a big part of why I use it, though, as I am a video-first shooter and Panasonic's video-friendly, silent-motor lenses are pretty ridiculous.)
- _ph_ 4y agoI am also a µFT-shooter, e.g. OM-1 with the 300/4. I named the 150-400, a lens which certainly doesn't have a 35mm counterpart. At which point the "quality" advantage of a 35mm sensor becomes moot. And of course also, if one doesn't have a lens to match my more affordable 300/4. Assuming the 35mm shooter is even willing to carry the equipment :p. The camera body size of course does no longer make a difference, but the lens size still does.
- CydeWeys 4y agoSmaller sensor sizes, generally, work better with high zooms (with the exception of astrophotography). Look at broadcast TV cameras as an extreme example; those use sensor sizes even smaller than M4/3. It simply becomes impractical to build a very long focal length lens for a large size sensor that isn't telescope-sized. And even when people are shooting with full-frame lenses (e.g. on Sony), they often use an APS-C camera body because it has more pixels in the very middle of the captured image, with the assumption being that you're going to be doing a lot of digital cropping anyway to get more effective zoom.
- eropple 4y agoHuh. TIL. I am very much a video-not-film shooter and photography is a weird art I do not understand, so thank you for setting me straight!