Nikon D90 or Lumix G7 for photos?

[DarrenLS]

Hi guys, was hoping someone could help me out.

Iv owned a Nikon D90 for a while and I recently bought a Lumix G7 purely to make videos with. But now I want to do some photography and Iv been asked to take pics at a friends wedding and I'm not sure which would give the best results?

Id also like to invest in some more lenses but I'm unsure If I should get lenses for my G7 and ditch the nikon altogether or get nikon lenses and maybe get one of these adaptors?...

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/produ...hongyi_mtkltm2aim43_nikon_f_mount_g_lens.html

 

[Nawty]

Hi guys, was hoping someone could help me out.

Iv owned a Nikon D90 for a while and I recently bought a Lumix G7 purely to make videos with. But now I want to do some photography and Iv been asked to take pics at a friends wedding and I'm not sure which would give the best results?

Id also like to invest in some more lenses but I'm unsure If I should get lenses for my G7 and ditch the nikon altogether or get nikon lenses and maybe get one of these adaptors?...

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/produ...hongyi_mtkltm2aim43_nikon_f_mount_g_lens.html

Ok, be prepared for a flame war regarding shooting a wedding for a friend but to answer the specific question (or not) I would say it depends on which you are most comfortable using, either is up to the job. Or better still, use both.

 

[woof woof]

I recently bought a G7 and I'm quite impressed with it. It's obviously mft and the Nikon is the slightly larger format aps-c but the Nikon is an older design so to be honest I think that the image quality may be comparable or maybe there'd be a slight edge to the newer mft camera?

Between the older Nikon and the newer Panasonic I'd personally go for the newer mft camera... with the lovely mft lenses and the advantages of evf shooting, in view histogram and the like.

 

[DarrenLS]

Ok, be prepared for a flame war regarding shooting a wedding for a friend but to answer the specific question (or not) I would say it depends on which you are most comfortable using, either is up to the job. Or better still, use both.

Haha by wedding a meal getting hitched in a registry office, very cheap affair hence me taking pictures. But still id like them to come out as best as poss. To be honest I think a prefer using the Panasonic but it just feels so light and cheap compared to the nikon and the lenses are so small its almost off puting in a way.

I did also consider selling my d90 to get a newer slr solely for photography but then im confused as to weather my money is best spent on a new nikon body and some nikon lenses whith the adaptor on my lumix or just sack off nikon altgoether and spend all the money on decent lenses for the lumix?

 

[DarrenLS]

I recently bought a G7 and I'm quite impressed with it. It's obviously mft and the Nikon is the slightly larger format aps-c but the Nikon is an older design so to be honest I think that the image quality may be comparable or maybe there'd be a slight edge to the newer mft camera?

Between the older Nikon and the newer Panasonic I'd personally go for the newer mft camera... with the lovely mft lenses and the advantages of evf shooting, in view histogram and the like.

I did a direct comparason and to be honest it was hard to tell the difference, do the mft lenses have a good reputation then? They just seem so small and plasticy?

 

[Nawty]

MFT lenses are, on the whole, fantastic. Being small and light is another of their attractive qualities, especially for people who've tried the DSLR thing and got tired of lugging it all around.

If you have a kit lens for the Panasonic then a prime like the 20mm f.1.7 would be perfect for the wedding day.

 

[DarrenLS]

MFT lenses are, on the whole, fantastic. Being small and light is another of their attractive qualities, especially for people who've tried the DSLR thing and got tired of lugging it all around.

If you have a kit lens for the Panasonic then a prime like the 20mm f.1.7 would be perfect for the wedding day.

Ok thanks il look into it. Would my money be better spent on a lens like that than a new slr with a kit lens? Do the lenses really make that much difference to quality?

 

[woof woof]

I did a direct comparason and to be honest it was hard to tell the difference, do the mft lenses have a good reputation then? They just seem so small and plasticy?

I think they generally have a reputation for being rather good and some also have a reputation for being sharp wide open. These are what I have...

Panasonic 14mm f2.5, 20mm f1.7.
Olympus 17, 25 and 45mm f1.8.

I also have a couple of slightly different Panasonic 14-42mm f3.5-5.6 zooms, one of which is tiny, a Panasonic 45-200mm, an Olympus 9-18mm and a Panasonic 12-35mm f2.8 which I've just got but seems to be very good.

I'd say that all of the primes are good to very good although the 20mm f1.7 focusing is a little leisurely but this may not be a real world issue. What could be an issue is that this lens can bizarrely and inexplicably to me anyway produce noise banding at high iso settings when other lenses just don't. I think this lens also doesn't do something focus wise but I can't remember what, track? So if you are interested in this lens the noise banding and/or focus issues may need to be looked in to.

All of the lenses I have seem to be plastic except the Olympus 17mm f1.8 which is metal and is just lovely. None of my lenses have shown any wear or inclination to fall apart so I wouldn't worry too much about them being plastic. There are also some rather nice and exotic lenses such as the Voigtlander f0.95 manual focus lenses. I had the 25mm but stupidly sold it, it was very possibly the best lens I've ever used and it's beautifully made.

 

[Nawty]

Ok thanks il look into it. Would my money be better spent on a lens like that than a new slr with a kit lens? Do the lenses really make that much difference to quality?

Lenses are faaaaaar more important than bodies.

Kit lenses have a slow aperture which means you can't get shallow depth of field and they are poor in low light as you need to use higher ISO.

The kit lens you have for outdoors and a fast prime for indoors is ideal (by fast I mean low aperture number, which confusingly means a big aperture).

 

[abdoujaparov]

(insert standard TP disclaimer about never shooting friends' weddings. Make sure the friend stays your friend afterwards.)

I shot a friend's wedding (registry + meal) on a D90 with a Nikkor 50mm f1.4 prime. The quality will be fine on the D90 and the MFT - I bet you wouldn't notice any difference unless you printed big. What you *will* notice is that the registry office will have crap lighting, and the restaurant will be worse, so if you plan on taking photos indoors, your choice should be based on whichever of your lenses has the biggest aperture. (Remember at big apertures, your DoF is going to be small even from a few metres, so try to keep the happy couple in the same plane of focus)