m.davidtaub
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Morris,
Thanks very much for the kind words. I don't think some of the technical aspects of the cameras are all that important in terms of the finished products you actually see - I wouldn't expect you to see a big difference in my (or anyone's) best shots from m43 or APS or full frame. There are differences and you'd see them if you looked closely enough, but I'm never gonna publicly present anything that I'm not reasonably satisfied with, regardless of what I'm shooting with.
To me the primary benefit is that some gear increases my chances for getting a workable or better shot in various different challenging circumstances. For example, I might have a shot you'd like from my DF or RX1 that was taken in conditions (I'm thinking of low light, but it might be a high DR situation too) that it would have been much more difficult, if even possible, to get a workable shot from some of the other gear I've used. Similarly for street shooting, I've used a variety of different equipment for street shooting (going back to a Pentax K1000 and Tri-X in the 1970s) and had shots I've liked from all of it, but I have very specific preferences for features and technical standards that greatly (VASTLY!) increase my number of keepers when I'm out shooting. I'd never show you a terrible shot from my m43 gear, so you'd rightly say that my m43 stuff looks fine, but I might have a LOT of shots, particularly from the street, that I'd get with a Coolpix A or now with the new RX1 that I simply wouldn't have gotten with my EM5 in 2012, let alone my EP2 in 2010 or my K1000 in 1976.
To me there's a big difference and a meaningful difference between different bits of gear for different types of shooting. I'll never show you my worst work, so you could assume there's not that much difference in the finished product. But rest assured I'm getting more good results in more difficult circumstances with some of the higher end gear than I did with some of the lesser gear I've used.
-Ray
I get it. I feel the same way. And before I buy a camera, I haven't bought a lot, I want to hold it in hand and make sure it 'fits' well. I will also want to try it, see how easy or not it is to use. All this as important to me as file quality.
Some of the color images you've posted here look like hdr. Is that right? Maybe it's just my screen being off and needing a calibration.
My own latest purchase was an olympus m5v2. I use it mostly with longer lenses, 50mm to 120mm. I keep the ricoh gr with me all the time for wide. I love this little ricoh. Was waiting, hoping ricoh might release something for the longer focal lengths but I got tired of waiting. I actually wanted the e-pl7, but tried it in hand, the feel wasn't right and wanted 'more'. Tried the m10v2 and that left me wanting 'more' as well. In hand only the m5v2 felt 'right'. For my own needs, street mostly, and the small sizes I like to print at it is perfect.
I wish sometimes I could afford the sony you're playing with or the leica Q but it just isn't in the budget. I keep hoping that maybe ricoh will release a full frame version of their gr. Maybe someday. But honest, this 16mp aps-c gr is so good on so many levels I should not want anything else.
Ok. Good luck to you with your decision. Me. I'm hanging on a bit. Want to see what Nikon might release this year. See if I will upgrade my D700 or not. I have been enjoying this d700 with primes for years. Would only like smaller, lighter, and more pixels for image quality and cropping.
kind regards
M
short ps. sorry for tardy reply but a day after i wrote the proverbial shit hit the fan and I was gone for a week with family stuff...
Morris,
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