They are close. Thank you for posting those pics.
Great shots, MAubrey. Demonstrates the point well - and also shows just how good the Oly 75 is to compete with the Canon 85L on an FF sensor. Wow. It would be interesting to see how they'd look with the white balance equalized, too.Compare these two. Same ISO. A7 vs. E-M5.
https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8660/16429351991_74ac9dca3a_o.jpg
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Not sure if it's been posted before but found this link an interesting read relating to Full frame (A7S) vs APS-C (X-T1) vs M43 (E-M1)
http://www.stevehuffphoto.com/2015/02/23/mirrorless-battle-micro-43-vs-aps-c-vs-full-frame/
I'm a big fan of mirrorless bodies and it amazes me how small (relative terms) the Sony A7 is compared to D-SLR full frame bodies but as mentioned, the FE lenses are still something that simply can't be packaged small relative to APS-C and especially M43 so I guess the advantage is that there are plenty of choices for everyone with merits and negatives within each system.. You only have to choose what suits you best.
I would not call the 35/2.8 a 'dissapointing' lens in any way - have the naysayers here actually used one? What I would say is that it's not particularly inspiring. It doesn't have much of that Zeiss 'pop', but it is very sharp from wide open, and the main attraction is the small size. It's overpriced slightly (I got it for quite a bit below retail on launch via the Sony educational store, probably a pricing error...) given its relatively narrow aperture, but other than that...
The FE 55/1.8 is my favourite 50mm lens of any system I've used to date (including: CY planar 50/1.4, Sigma 50/1.4, Canon 50/1.8, Leica R 50/2.0 and assorted cheapies). Beautiful rendering, contrast, very nice build, and the lens that really sold me on my A7r. For me, the systems (MFT and FE) live together in harmony. I don't see myself going back to a FF telephoto setup, ever (I owned a 5DII and a 100-400, and I'd much rather have my E-M1 and 50-200 with an optional teleconverter - lighter, MUCH more reach, and brighter and enough resolution), and the all-round handling of the E-M1 beats the A7r (AF point selection is a bear compared to the ease of a touchscreen, and the IBIS is amazing), but for my major interest (landscapes) the A7r holds a lot of great cards (resolution, small enough size, highly malleable files). I'm on the verge of buying a 16-35, and then deciding on whether to sell the panasonic 7-14 (blotchy purpleness and fussy filter issues aside, it remains a really, really fantastic ultrawide), and then having that be my 2-lens A7r setup (16-35, 55/1.8), with the E-M1 handling 'standard zoom' (12-40) and telephoto tasks, with a few smaller primes just for fun.
I shoot JPEG about 70% of the time. I don't know, old school i guess. I come from a film background and I like "happy accidents". The rest of the time I shoot Raw+JPEG
Hi
just FYI, you can shoot RAW all the time and there is always an embedded JPG which is typically half the X , Y dimensions of the RAW. You can pull them out super fast with dcraw (which works on either MAC or PC) and 99% of the time if you just "want it as it comes" then you don't need a bajillapixel image, but when you "want to screw around with the image" usually having more (like the RAW) is helpful.
To me there is no need to shoot RAW + JPG except to waste a bit of card space
Sorry, I guess I'd say disappointing in that the resolution across the frame out of the 35/2.8 doesn't seem to be that much better than from a 20/1.7, despite a sensor 1/4 the size and a price tag 1/3 as high.
Sure it's small (for FF), but if you're going for full frame to pay twice as much for pretty much the same effect...?
Sorry it took so long to reply, but I wanted to use it first before I give my opinion. yes the 24-70 to my human eye is similar to the 12-40, BUT sharper with more detail especially around center (could be the better resolving larger and more MP sensor too). But as a package yes its sharper. At f/4 the corners are a bit unsharp vs the Oly 12-40.Hm, how do you find the battery life with IS lenses or IBIS? do you find the 24-70/4 quality more or less comparable with Oly 12-40? (the reviews are not very favorable, but of course sample variation always comes into play...)
I am currently thinking about the same switch - want to upgrade to E-M5 II but A77 II is just a little bit more...
I could sell all my m43 gear and buy A77 II with 35/2.8 and FE24-70, later add 16-35 to it.. What bothers me is only size of the 70-200/4, since my 35-100 is a lot more compact I find the Sony RAW files much better editable (for landscapes and nature), not that I wasn't happy with m43, for me it's just hobby anyway
how so? 24MP / 2 = 12MP = double the zoom, so 24MP/1.5 = 16MP = 300mm zoomThe 70-200 when cropped to 300 on the 24MP A7ii sensor is 10MP not 16MP.
Its the 'square' of the crop factor that matters.how so? 24MP / 2 = 12MP = double the zoom, so 24MP/1.5 = 16MP = 300mm zoom
Its the 'square' of the crop factor that matters.
Consider M43 which is a 2x crop - giving 140-400 on a 70-200 FF lens. 2x crop results in a sensor 1/4 the size. So only 6MP from a 24MP FF sensor.
If you cropped an A7r (36MP) you would get 16MP with a 1.5x crop.
why don't you crop the guts out and have a look? You may be surprised36*.71=25.56 for a 1.5 crop (APS-C is normally a 1.6 crop though so it's around 24mp).....