Originally posted by UncleVanya In this we see eye to eye. I’m not interested in one lens solutions that are heavy and awkward. I like my 18-135 but I wouldn’t care for it if it was larger and heavy. I enjoy my m43 systems for their light and compact flavor lenses and have a few high quality primes and zooms with limited range to fill in.
These are my first few months trying out MFT, and I'm surprisingly impressed. Previously I'd dabbled with the Fuji X Pro 1 and XE-2. Those cameras had great retro styling and gave lovely results, but system-wise, the gear matched up with Pentax a little too well. I wasn't looking for more heavy, expensive lenses. Their ergonomics weren't as attractive as their industrial design. MFT offers a whole different set of attractions, as you mentioned, as well as an increasing amount of bargains. My GX8 is strong where Pentax is weak: speed, AF, and compactness. That really changes when you get to longer lenses, though. The professional-level MFT telephotos and telezooms are heavier than Pentax lenses like the DA50-135 and the DA 300! Yes, these MFT lenses function as twice those focal lengths, but I can get the same magnification by cropping my K-1 or K-3 images. I haven't seen the slower, midrange telezooms; maybe when I do, I'll see some MFT benefit.