Nowadays, if I'm being asked to make recommendations for someone without a vested interested in a particular system, I find it hard to suggest they go with the bulk and weight of a DSLR.
The four thirds systems (and, in particular, micro four thirds) offer image quality as good as any DSLR that's over a year older. Their one weakness is in the breadth of the lens selction that maintains automation (focus and or aperture). Of course they don't have some of the cutting-edge features of marginal use to most photographers such as extremely high frame rates. The one feature they are missing is an optical viewfinder; it depends on the photographer as to whether an electronic viewfinder is OK. I'd take a look at the current Olympus and Panasonic offerings, and in the lenses offered by them and by a few third parties. I'm not yet convinced that the other small-body systems such as the Sony NEX offer enough to a newcomer. The range of lenses is even more limited than that for a multi-vendor standard. On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 03:39:08PM +0200, Boris Liberman wrote: > Hi! > > Like I wrote to Tom on the other thread, Galia is complaining a bit > about AF of her K10D. I could, in principle, proceed towards spending > our time together whereas I'd be telling her about the way AF is > supposed to be used, etc. This can prove beneficial to her to some > extent. > > The alternative is to get her a different set of gear which may or may > not be a good idea. Suppose for a moment it is a /good/ idea. > > What would you suggest? Please let us not limit this conversation to > Pentax only. Galia's kit is K10D, DA 21/3.2, FA 50/1.4 and FA 100/3.5 > whereas she always is asked to select a single lens before the shoot and > she puts all her three lenses is fair use. As an example of what I have > in mind I'd suggest this: Panasonic GF1 or GH2 or whatever, freshly > announced 14/2.5 for wide angle, 20/1.7 for normal and 45/2.8 macro for, > well, macro. > > Ideally I'd like to keep this discussion on target. That is there is no > need whatsoever to compare brands here. I'd simply like to know how > would you approach this issue. > > Thanks. > > Boris > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
