If sensor size is the most impt factor, then why didn't the
400mp Hasselblad H6D-400C or the 150mp PhaseOne XF IQ4 150MP
become best sellers? Instead the humble Olympus EM10 because the best seller in Japan!
The big question a potential buyer need to us is, besides the price, is the camera system practical for my intended use?
I brought my tiny Olympus EM5 with a few lenses on all my overseas trip, but some of my friends of Canon & Nikon DSLRs left their systems behind saying it is too heavy to carry and just use their mobile phone.
Use for 20years? Did you use your camera for 20 Years?
Are you still using 20 years old lenses?
Build a camera system that cost a scary big amount?
Not sure what you meant by scary amount......
90% of camera users only have 2 to 3 lenses anyway. A Sony System with 2 G lenses probably cost about $10K to $15K,
about the cost of a family trip to Europe or Japan. If you sell the system after 5 years, you may lose about 50% ($7.5K)
My Olympus system with 6 lenses costs less than $7.5K.
But I think I will bring it around more often and have higher utilization these 5 years
Anyway, to bring back the topic of this track, I will definitely upgrade my Olympus body, hopefully in 2022 if it continues to be reasonably light for my trekking trips.
The other path I may go is I may get the heavy Em1x mk 2 for birding, once I have the time to join my friends.
Cheers.
If you only buy a camera body and 2 lenses, use it for 20 years - and never buy any other system "stuff".
Then you need not worry about what brand you buy.
You capital loss is minimal.
Restricted to one small expenditure every 20 years.
But if you plan to start and build a SYSTEM and continue to spend a lot of money buying more lenses and camera bodies.
Flashes + all kinds of system accessories.
The pile of money begins to increase to a scary big amount.
Then better think carefully about the sensor size.
My opinion is MFT will surely die. Just like PCs with 8086 CPU were superseded by PCs with better CPU.
It is not an IF.
But when.
Either JIP pulls the plug after 1 year and rips up OMDS.
Or Panasonic gives up MFT - letting MFT die a quiet death by not talking about it anymore.
Exactly the death by silent treatment that Sony inflicted on its ill fated A mount.