dko22
Mu-43 Regular
hello everyone -- I'm David from Edinburgh. I've been a photography enthusiast for around 30 years though it has come and gone in phases with membership of a few clubs along the way. Eventually I got frustrated with the lack of immediacy of feedback film and craved digital. The first system I bought into was Olympus. I was trying to find a system which would provide good quality but without too much size or weight and considered the new E400 but eventually got the E500 as it was much cheaper but more bulky --the first broken rule. I then collected a selection of increasingly heavy lenses including my first ever fisheye but after a year or so, despite a good deal of enjoyment with this camera, became frustrated with a couple of things, namely the lack of a true ultrawide and any kind of stabilisation on telephoto. The high ISO was far from inspiring as well. Was within an ace of getting the E3 but then thought to myself, you really cannot afford that --is there not a better deal around? So I switched to Nikon who had at the time a perhaps better lens range including the option to use old primes.
Eventually, I'd collected enough old legacy odds and ends to want to see them with the correct focal length as well as still having some frustration with low light. Enter the D700 last autumn which I hadn't expected for another year or more but I was lucky with a local second hand one. Finally a camera with no weaknesses apart from its annoying tendency to show up every little defect of lenses! Some lens rearrangement required. But finally I was settled --I was quite sure the IQ would do me happily for another 5 years. Just one small issue (apart from dust which has driven me to distraction once or twice). It was difficult to decide what to take on short trips as the kit was neither light nor compact. And I had vague thoughts about a lighter second camera but can't stand anything with only an LCD and anything else was too bulky or expensive.
Then purely by chance a few weeks ago I saw an ad for a clearance of the G1 at under £300 which is much less than I thought a mu-43 camera would cost. Read reviews and thought, well this could be a nice second camera. Now the problems really start as I like it so much that I'm wondering if i really need the full frame stuff. This, after all, was what I was really looking for when I first got the Olympus four thirds camera. I was already sure at that time that the days of the DSLR must be numbered but had no idea how long this hybrid system would last. Objectively, the low light/high ISO performance is similar to the Nikon D200 and clearly below the D700 but yet I'm finding in practice already that the G1 can cope far better than I'd expected with tricky lighting. Of course just now I only have the 14-45 but am seriously considering building a system out of this. But I can't have both, esp. if I get the wonderful sounding, 7-14 and if the D700 has to go, it will have to be before it is replaced so I can probably get back as much as I paid. So, big decisions to be made and I'll no doubt be pestering some of the FF v MFT threads. Ok, I admit I already started...
David
Eventually, I'd collected enough old legacy odds and ends to want to see them with the correct focal length as well as still having some frustration with low light. Enter the D700 last autumn which I hadn't expected for another year or more but I was lucky with a local second hand one. Finally a camera with no weaknesses apart from its annoying tendency to show up every little defect of lenses! Some lens rearrangement required. But finally I was settled --I was quite sure the IQ would do me happily for another 5 years. Just one small issue (apart from dust which has driven me to distraction once or twice). It was difficult to decide what to take on short trips as the kit was neither light nor compact. And I had vague thoughts about a lighter second camera but can't stand anything with only an LCD and anything else was too bulky or expensive.
Then purely by chance a few weeks ago I saw an ad for a clearance of the G1 at under £300 which is much less than I thought a mu-43 camera would cost. Read reviews and thought, well this could be a nice second camera. Now the problems really start as I like it so much that I'm wondering if i really need the full frame stuff. This, after all, was what I was really looking for when I first got the Olympus four thirds camera. I was already sure at that time that the days of the DSLR must be numbered but had no idea how long this hybrid system would last. Objectively, the low light/high ISO performance is similar to the Nikon D200 and clearly below the D700 but yet I'm finding in practice already that the G1 can cope far better than I'd expected with tricky lighting. Of course just now I only have the 14-45 but am seriously considering building a system out of this. But I can't have both, esp. if I get the wonderful sounding, 7-14 and if the D700 has to go, it will have to be before it is replaced so I can probably get back as much as I paid. So, big decisions to be made and I'll no doubt be pestering some of the FF v MFT threads. Ok, I admit I already started...
David
