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Keith, I know I've said this before but why not go the same route as me? Keep MFT and buy a used A7 mk1, buy one decent modern lens (a cheap 35mm f2.8, 50mm f1.8 or even just the kit lens) and other than that use cheap old lenses on it. £100 would get you an adapter, a 28mm f2.8, 50mm f1.8 or macro and 135mm f2.8 and you'd probably have change.
You'll have MFT for most of your stuff and a FF sensor for when you need better quality, pictures of loved ones etc, anything that you want a really good (technically) picture of or the fun of cheap old lenses at their intended FoV.
It was an option, and not a bad one at all but I had to give Fuji another go. I did enjoy the couple years I spent shooting with Fuji gear pre-M43 switch, there is something about their cameras I really like. A lot of the frustration I'm experiencing now is the 'fiddliness'. I'm so attuned to the Panasonic, could use the G80 blind folded [well, apart from composing an actual shot! ] I think I expected in my mind to just automatically be as comfortable with the Fuji as I was a couple of years back. I'm loving most things about it, it's just certain controls, certain niggles, keep hitting the wrong buttons and accidentally hitting off this or that and then having to exit out of stuff I didn't want etc. I sat with it tonight and configured much better to suit, as close to the way I have the G80 set up as I could get really so the transition is a bit smoother. I think I would actually be same with a Sony body for a while. It wasn't just about better IQ, it was about the overall experience, I'm just an impatient bugger and expect everything to immediately fall in to place
I have a step down 46-43 mm but I also bought a step 46-58mm so I could put on a lens cap I already had. With some tubes and and the Zuiko 60mm f2.8 its about 3X magnification
Macro rigg E M5II by Alf Branch, on Flickr
That is a very nice macro set up indeed, seen it in the macro show your rig thread I'm just using the Raynox 250 atm on a Canon 55-250 lens, I can get some crazy magnification on that too but tend to use t mostly around the 100mm mark. Need more practice for the higher mag stuff
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