Originally posted by TDvN57 What is your experience and how does camera-lens balance impact you?
I disagree with the trend in digital cameras: small sensor with huge lenses.
Firstly, as you say, huge lens on small body doesn't feel good for the user.
Secondly, razor thin depth of field isn't an advantage, depth of field should be large enough to fit the subject matter within it, I find f4 is about right for portrait shot, f1.2 useless for me
Thirdly, huge lens don't provide any substantial increase in image resolution, once sensor resolution is reach the difference between small lens and large super corrected fast lens is negligible
For me, based on my shooting style, the trend of fast camera, small sensor with huge lenses don't match what I'm expecting from a camera system. I would much prefer larger sensors with smaller lenses, with the weight of camera closer to the photographer, much like LF film setups are: huge film, tiny lens, excellent potential for image enlargement.