Prude
31-Dec-18 04:55 AM
honestly if someone didn't want to spend a lot of money up front and liked the idea of the m43 ecosystem
This actually looks like it would be a decent deal
I don't know how good their glass is (probably not amazing), but still: a standard m43 kit zoom FL range, a fast portrait prime, and what seems like a body that exceeds exprctations for the price is quite good
Like fucking pennies by camera standards
Apparently the most obvious shortcoming is poor AF, but manual zooming in challenging focusing conditions is not a big ask; seems like the raws come out quite alright in terms of actual IQ
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From this, you would have an obvious opening to pick up a wide prime and/or telephoto zoom from the existing m43 family and you would have a fairly complete kit for all purposes
And then upgrading the body at some point via a used last gen model or whatever would be a fairly cheap step up
The body is probably frankly barely worse than the super entry level evf-less type models oly and panny have, similar styling and features too
Seems like the kind of situation where if it was any cheaper, it'd obviously be one of those garbage toy cameras, but it's right at the price and performance threshold where it fills a similar niche as like midrange chinese phones (so ultra-budget by US standards) where for a few hundred dollars, you actually get something that works as well as something twice as expensive in "name brand" equivalents
That chinatech magic where they hit the peak of the value curve, where performance is just above worthwhile and diminishing returns on the performance:price rario aren't harsh yet
as an aside, I 100% hope it becomes a trend where emerging chinese tech producers go to m43 for their "step up from phone cams" ILCs
Because sooner or later one will get ambitious and produce some glass (with AF, I hope) worth a shit on the cheap