Originally posted by monochrome One thing I'm learning after buying 70 lenses is - they don't matter. K-3, K-01, LX, MZ-S - doesn't matter.
After a certain point nothing is any better than anything else - it's just what I want and what I'm willing to do to get the shot. M43, APS, FF, Crop MF, 100Mp FF-MF (well, the last one matters) - a good photographer can make any image happen with good, available equipment in any format. I've seen amazing Q images.
Doesn't matter.
You're right, and I agree to a large extent - but what I'd also say is that, in certain situations, certain formats and lenses can produce things that other formats and lenses can't. There are things that a good FF camera and fast lens can produce that an m43 camera simply can't - *in those specific circumstances* - and... very importantly...
vice versa. It's not that one format is "better" than another, it's that they are
different. Hence my confusion as to why APS-C would die out and be replaced by m43, per the very friendly exchange I had with the afore-mentioned forum member. They are different - not mutually exclusive
Out of interest, what do *you* think will happen to APS-C vs FF and m43 going forward? You and I have had several friendly interactions on the forum, and I would hope you know I'm not biased one way or another (per my original post) - I'm just interested
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Originally posted by dtmateojr m43 can do anything FF can do if you remain realistic with your expectations. The reasons for having different formats are many but as long as they are centered on what matters, then size is irrelevant. I own P&S, m43, aps-c, ff and medium format cameras and most of the time they never mattered at all. I still make the same crappy shots.
And this is where we differ. I would say "m43 can do anything you *need* it to though you may not be able to get from it quite what you can with a different format sensor (whether smaller or larger)..." - and I'm right with you on the crappy shots thing - me too
But, based on my original post, I stated reasons as to why I thought FF, APS-C and m43 would *all* continue. Let me turn that around to you and say, given what you've suggested, what's the point of APS-C and FF cameras? Should we all just be shooting m43, because we can do everything we need to with that format? If your answer is yes to that last one, we *definitely* aren't on the same page!!