Quote:I'm trying to reiterate that _you_ will not be satisfied by small-sensor cameras, even if the sharpness is excellent. When you look at a representative number of pictures from small sensor camera, even if they look technically perfect, there's a feel of something wrong with them. It's hard to explain. The best known to me attempt to do so was by David Kilpatrick; he wrote that if you shoot doll house with small sensor camera, it appears realistic, and dolls look like humans.
Well... if you don't print huge, you won't notice anything between MFT, APS-C and full frame (except for specific very shallow DOF needs).
As a test, try this. Go through the photos on this page: http://capturedbyflo.com/whatsnew
Now, try to guess which photos where shot with which camera. All of the following cameras were used:
- Panasonic G3 (most people as well as dxomark would think this is a "mediocre" sensor)
- Olympus E-PL5 (MFT)
- Olympus E-M1 (MFT)
- Pentax K5 (APS-C)
- Nikon D800 (full frame)
I hope this puts things in perspective.
The reality is that whatever people/marketing companies/full frame shooters/etc. want you to believe, any current "small" sensor camera can produce outstanding results, MFT included.