On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 07:55:27AM -0400, Steven Desjardins wrote: > > [. . .] I like small cameras because I am likely to grab > one as I walk out the door [ That is] a very attractive> feature of the current generation of mu43 cameras like the > E-P2. I am convinced the image quality of the smaller > four thirds sensors is not as good as APS-C.
Maybe not, but it's usually good enough. Until recently I was still shooting with a K-10D as my best camera. That's five-year-old technology (and three generations behind what Pentax are offering today), but I rarely found that the quality of the sensor was the most important factor to be considered. A little over a year ago I persuaded my wife that an E-PL1 would be a good upgrade from her old Casio compact point- and-shoot. That's got a 12MP sensor (about the same pixel count as the K-10D). Admittedly it's a newer-generation sensor (the E-P1 came out in mid-2009), but it's at least as good as the K-10D for day-to-day use, and far superior in low-light situations. Extrapolating wildly from this single-point measurement, I'd expect the performance of mu43 cameras to be about two years (or one sensor generation) behind APS-C bodies. (That matches what several other folks have concluded). So even if mu43 bodies aren't quite good enough today for your uses they probably will be in a couple of years (and to be realistic they're already good enough for the vast majority of current DSLR owners). -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
