On 10/22/2010 6:08 PM, Jaume Lahuerta wrote:
I am just trying to say that if size is similar, the other important aspect is Image quality, that it seems that will be always better in APSC land. So...why m4/3? Dario's answer is: lens 'ecosystem' and IQ is not that important.
Jaume, the "IQ is always better in larger sensor land" (which is direct generalization of the quote above) is debatable. If you shoot targets in controlled environment, then indeed it is likely to be true up to the up todate-ness of the gear being compared. If you do real life shooting it is not all that straightforward.
I am slowly but surely growing to understand that gear has very little part in image creation process. Whatever suits the photographer is good enough. It can be anything really. Of course driving Mercedes is better than driving Kia but as one who's driving the latter every day for past two years I should say, Kia is just fine. By the way, I am not implying here the direct parallel between Merc and APSC or FF and Kia and (m)4/3.
In fact, I opine that for 99.9% of hobbyist or amateur photographers, their actual abilities were surpassed when K10D (D200, 40D) were introduced. I am approaching 10K clicks on my K-7 and I am going to write a blog entry follow up to my K-7 review when I bought about year and half ago, slightly less actually. I am surprised myself, but I am using really very small sub set of what K-7 has to offer. And I consider myself being reasonably well versed, being a square type who does RTFM and being a software engineer.
I doubt that if one will be presented with the three cameras, m43, APSC and FF, they could just so, on the spot come up with three images, one from each camera, that will extract most from their gear consequently showing practically that m43 < APSC < FF in IQ department, as you appear to claim.
Case to point - recently someone posted on PentaxForums an image and asked which camera was used to take it. Apparently it was *istD and no one even thought of such a possibility.
Like I said, Godfrey knows exactly what he is doing and he constantly proves how good a photographer and a photo-technician he is. Evidently yours and mine mileages will be and are different.
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