OMD/M43 vs D7000/D300s

dejongj said:
Damn nearly perfect (on paper), I just really don't like the design of the Panasonic. P5 looks with built in viewfinder would have been great. Ill pop into the olly roadshow in London tomorrow to handle the p5 hopefully and see how it is with the vf4.

But got to admit rx1 is still telling me get me instead :)
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Bother...I can read calendars anymore. The roadshow is tomorrow wasn't tonight. Typical just when I'm not in London.
 
I borrowed the d800 plus 50mm f1.4 and 85mm f1.4 primes from work - went out today and wandered round with the d800 round my neck and the gx1 with 20mm in my pocket.

Guess which one ...

... got more use, I didn't mind pointing at people and was a damn sight lighter.

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Will be talking the d800 back into the office today - as lovely as it is and this has made up my mind - sticking with m43 again for the foreseeable - for ME it is almost perfect.

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bl0at3r said:
Will be talking the d800 back into the office today - as lovely as it is and this has made up my mind - sticking with m43 again for the foreseeable - for ME it is almost perfect.

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I got my 5D+50mm out the other day and if felt massive.

Smaller cameras are the way forward for me.
 
That's because the 5D is massive. I think smaller cameras are the way forward for the majority of people and 100D sales will prove one way or another if DSLR stalwarts also want a smaller camera as technically a DSLR can be made smaller. (Sony proved this many years ago but as it was Sony nobody noticed!)
 
ernesto said:
That's because the 5D is massive.
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I don't think the 5Dc is massive compared to other DSLR's, It's about average to small for a mid to high end DSLR. It's only a few mm in any dimension from my 20D or the more recent 7D and they're APS-C, and it's a tiny teeny bit smaller than a 5DIII and a bit lighter too and it's not a 1 series. Of course with a Sigma 50mm f1.4 on the front the 5Dc a lot bigger and heavier than a G1 with 28 or 50mm fitted.

Personally although I winge about EVF's the only real problem for me is night time shooting, other than that give me an EVF every time as for me the advantages far outweigh the disadvantages in all but night time shooting.

The problem with the 100D for me is that it's a flappy mirror machine with all of the disadvantages that brings, it needs lenses that are mostly bigger than those for MFT and manual focus with anything that isn't big in the frame is difficult (for me,) plus yet again it's a camera limited to 1/4000 sec. and it's dynamic range lags behind the best CSC's now.

I can see what Canon are doing and they must be cursing the rise of CSC's to hell but personally I think the future is mirrorless with an electronic VF or at least an overlay.
 
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