Originally posted by reh321 That's great!! I'd much rather have f/5.6 DOF than f/2.8 DOF when photographing sports and events, and the evidence so far is that noise reduction at higher ISO values will be quite satisfactory for most uses also.
Well your luck is that f/5.6 is often cheaper than f/2.8. Your bad luck is that between f/11 and f/1.4 FF, there 6 stops and f/11 vs f/2.8 there still 4 stops. That more than the progress in high iso for hardware of the last 10-15 years.
And even with latest hardware, throwing away 4 to 6 stop when you are into low light is a luxury you can't really afford.
And it isn't like large apperture look that bad...
f/2.8
f/2
f/2
f/2.5
You can't have it all. Even if recent progress in low light are impressive, even more so on some m4/3 flagship that seems to match a KP now, if you give up apperture or post processing to simplify you life, you loose it somewhere else.