r/M43

You've spent an entire week with your Micro Four-Thirds camera, documenting the world as it is, how it was, or how you think it should be. It's time to show us those photos and bask in the glory that only a weekly photo thread can bring!

Rules:

1. The photo must be your own. No cross-posting someone else's work.
2. You may only post one photo per week. Pick only your best work and show it off!
3. Post your photo in a top-level comment for maximum exposure! (hehe get it, "exposure"?)
4. Include as much detail as possible about the camera, the lens and the environment as possible. Good: "Shot with Olympus OM-D E-M1 w/ Panasonic 25mm f/1.8 lens @ 25mm f/2.0 ISO100 Time: 5:40PM in Los Angeles, California" Bad: "Look at this shot, isn't it neat?"
5. Above all, be respectful. There's a big difference between the following comments: "OMG THAT PHOTO IS HORRIBLE" and "The lighting coming off his face looks uneven".

Greetings everyone,
Hope you all have a great day!
I am a fellow photographer about to enter a new world of possibilities switching from iPhone mobile photography to finally buy a mirrorless camera system!

In short-
I love the sensor performance of a full frame
And I love the versatility mobility of MFT

USECASE:
30% everyday photo and videography (lowlight possible - street- portraiture etc)
35% birds and wildlife
15% landscape and wide angle
5% Astro and night shots
15% macro

Please help me which path is better, I wish to build my skills and technique further in this field seek guidance?

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Setup 1 - Micro four thirds :
OM1 Mark II
7-14 2.8
12-40 2.8
40-150 2.8 with 1.4 tele
~~~~ after 1 year ~~~~
25 1.2
45 1.2
75 1.8
300 f4
90 macro

Setup 2 - Full Frame
Z6 iii
17-28 2.8
24-120 f4 S
70-200 2.8 VR S
~~~~ after 1 year ~~~~
Either one of 50 vs 85 1.8
180 - 600 5.6 - 6.3
105 macro

Setup 3 - hybrid
OM 1 Mark II with Z6 iii
7-14 2.8 MFT (14-28 full frame equiv) due to live composite of MFT
24-120 f4 S FF
40-150 2.8 MFT (80-300 full frame equiv also use 1.4 tele converter)
75 1.8 MFT (150 full frame equiv)
~~~~ after 1 year ~~~~
Either one of 50 vs 85 1.8
300 f4 MFT (600 full frame equiv)
90 macro MFT (180 full frame equiv)

Key points
Hate tripod / Will not print / Will use DXO denoising

Appreciate your advice and experience in photography?

TLDR: i love this camera 😃

Hey all! For those who might remember briefly, I posted about receiving the OM-3 as a Christmas present.

Since then, I've had a wonderful time with the camera. It's quite a small package, and I find myself surprised often with how powerful it truly is. I don't shoot fast-moving subjects often, so I haven't really gotten into the pro-capture modes, but I find that the color and dynamic range are more than plenty for what I've used it for.

Most impressive are its low-light chops. Yes, I find that I have to often crank my settings to the extreme to get a shot in those conditions, but I find that I receive usable or fixable results 90% of the time, and faster glass does help with that anyways. DXO Photolab 9 works its wonders with noise reduction.

Battery life is incredible and I debated a long time before I bought the official OM System BLX-1 dual charger, and I'll explain why in a bit. But I sometimes went a week or so without needing a charge!

My goofy dog, Dr. Bartolo. OM-3 w/ M.Zuiko 20mm f1.4 Pro @ 1/800s, f6.3, ISO200

Probably not the best photo but impressive low-light demonstration! OM-3 w/ M.Zuiko 20mm f1.4 Pro @ 1/160s, f1.4, ISO10000

Anyone who says MFT can't do bokeh is proven wrong! OM-3 w/ M.Zuiko 20mm f1.4 Pro @ 1/8000s, f2.8, ISO320

Can you tell I really like the 20mm f1.4 Pro? 😅

Probably needs to be a touch cooler on the white balance but TASTY - OM-3 w/ 25mm f.18 II @ 1/100s, f4, ISO12800

I remember one of y'all commented wondering about my camera balance between my Nikon Z6III and my OM-3. I actually ended up selling my Z6III + Z mount lens collection in favor of funding more MFT lenses! For myself, I found Z series lenses to be just a bit too heavy and bulky for myself, and I didn't really need the raw power of the Z6III.

I only really have one gripe with the OM-3. What is going on with the horrible sealing on the port doors?? These flimsy and ill-fitting rubber pieces don't have any tactile feedback to tell me when I've sealed them correctly, and I have to usually press pretty darn hard to get them to stay in. In fact, it's become such an annoyance that I have resorted to never using the USB C port and instead pulling the battery out for a charge and the SD card out for file transfer.

Anyhow as the title says, that's only a slight gripe. Realistically, it doesn't really change my life too much other than making me spend money on a charger, because I preferred a fast UHS-II card reader to USB C before anyways.

I love this "little" camera a lot, and I anticipate bringing it everywhere I go. I even got this little handle from Amazon that makes the grip so much easier with some of the larger and heavier lenses.

Feel free to AMA about this camera and my experience with it.

Hello, fellow M43 friends!

Since I got into photography about a year ago, I’ve been trying to do two things: 1. Take good pictures, and 2. Understand the physics of focal length, depth of field, etc.

Speaking of focal length, something has been scratching my brain for a while now. A phrase that always comes up is: "In M43, you simply multiply the focal length by 2 to get its Full Frame equivalent."

Is this entirely true? I think it’s true in terms of framing (how much of the subject fills the sensor), but not when it comes to how much of the background is visible. I tried sketching what I recall from grad school. If our subject is "A" and the background is an arrow, it seems like the background is much more compressed on the FF sensor (meaning more of the background appears), even though "A" takes up roughly 25% of the height in both images.

https://preview.redd.it/dy1jwqjuna2h1.png?width=870&format=png&auto=webp&s=e5e2c6da02d064ebd959b71487be0660ab6d7398

https://preview.redd.it/an304g50oa2h1.png?width=907&format=png&auto=webp&s=7ff7f528932aa33e1c26c9e94cf1b7d88b840cf0

So is that all garbage because I am missing a lot of what is a camera lens and I just can't summarize it to a simple lens or is there something true about it ?

Thanks for the physics help y'all !