Anyone with a7 and m43?

[hjbyeo]

I enjoyed the m43s' focusing speed (at least S.AF). Probably nail on for most of my type of shots for travels.

What I cannot live with is the hot pixels when shooting longer exposures w m43s. And also the need to wait for the NR to complete before I can take my next LE shot. If I take an exposure of 60s, I would also need to wait 60s for the next shot. So in locations where good light doesn't wait, I find this difficult to get by.

So I usually now deploy the m43s for the moment-in-time snaps, and the A7 series as the landscape/cityscape/long exposures camera. There's obviously many other choices, but I've got quite a bit of legacy lenses which I used on the A7 series. Usage is very much like a digital back for my manual lenses. And Sony's really good for that.

But of course, the above suits my needs and wants, and I'm sharing my own experiences in this thread. And I hope you see that it's worth keeping your current m43s, but perhaps different situations require a different system. But hor, you need to get use to 2 menus, 2 different cameras, understand the quirks to suit it to your taste, and that to me is the challenge for owning 2 systems (or even more).

 

[pinholecam]

I moved away from m4/3.
As a portable system, its use I found was fluid with native lenses and did not get much in the way of taking pictures. (esp. streets)
But a few things made me go back to aps-c and FF more.
1. Files broke up earlier in PP
2. Because of x2 crop factor, lots of my legacy lenses became too long for much use.
3. The UWA options are not cheap, so might as well use aps-c/FF for the better file quality (I do print up to A3+)
4. Still need a bag of sorts to carry the system which is about the same sized bag if I used my Pentax (smaller than most other DSLR systems) or now A7 (with 3 primes)
5. Better DOF control and working distances for apsc, and FF.

I don't think there is any right or wrong or absolute 'better'.
To me, m4/3 was just not the 'middle ground' I wanted.
To some it might be, and yet to others maybe serious compacts is that 'middle'.
But the above are my reasons.