Thanks for the link, some great looking pics in there.
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I sort of went the same route, I went from Canon 40D & 50D to Fuji X Cameras (X-S1 & X10) and now using Lumix G5 & GX7 and have the 100-300 lens as well, now that I have them I wish I skipped the Fuji's.
Paul
Thanks Paul, I looked at the xt1 when it came out, I was really hoping I would like it, but 1st impressions were not ideal for me, and not looked at it again. I used to have a g5, it went in p/x to get my 70d, I miss it more than I like my 70d at the moment!
I went from 5Dc to MFT and currently have a G1 and a GX7.
Just on image quality - I'd say that for whole images and reasonably large prints the old G1 easily holds its own at low to mid ISO's and it's really only at the highest ISO's that things start to fall apart. The GX7 does a lot better at higher ISO's and I really have to pixel peep to see any issue.
Coming from a Canon APS-C which with respect to you and other owners have often had questions raised about image quality maybe you'll be pleasantly surprised by a top end MFT? I think that the lenses in particular will very probably impress you.
Thank you Allan, I certainly would like the chance to use some lenses on the m4/3 side, I used the 14mm pancake which I really enjoyed, making it a great quick and effective combo with the g5 I had.
I have had mixed results but it might just be me !! I have had a 450d, 50d and enjoyed them both. I owned a gf3 a while back and couldn't get on with it too well. I then bought an EPL5 and although the image quality was very nice when the focus was spot on i had tons of more shots that were out of focus than i ever did with the dslr's. Basically i shoot my toddler running about and i had tons of missed shots which as i say could have been me but when i used the 50d and 70-200f4L i rarely had any. For info i used the 45mm f1.8 lens most of the time.
Looking at the gh4 and em1, I would hope it would avoid that. My 70d is currently so inconsistent it's unreal, very rarely see an in focus picture, but I can then have a run of nothing going wrong. It's a good point you make though and one I would certainly check out.
make sure you can get on with the small bodies, fiddly controls and flickering EVF's
I managed the g5 quite nicely, I really wanted panasonic to make a grip to go with it at times, never had a problem with the evf, if the camera had a flickering evf I would have to discount it straight away as this could cause problems for me.
I haven't left the DSLR world (just yet) but do have an Olympus OMD-EM1 and Panasonic GH3 to compliment by Nikon FF DSLR's, and to be honest the differences are not as big as you might think. With carefully selected shutter speeds the Panasonic 100-300 is a pretty fine and sharp lens (and I've heard similar for the Olympus 75-300).
I've also used my Nikon 300mm F2.8 and F4 lenses with the EM1 with a very cheap adaptor (with an aperture adjustment ring), and with the focus peaking on the EM1, and the results were stellar and a 600mm equivalent to boot.
I currently have a 200 2.8L which I very rarely use as its af is bust, I was considering selling it, but focus peaking could make it a keeper, I still have a basic eos to m4/3 adapter somewhere in one of my bags. 100-300 seems to be quite well received. How are you finding your em1 overall and compared to the gh3?