Ray Sachs
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I am going to leave µ4/3 to a great extent and I am going to buy a full frame DSLR instead, therefore this thread is highly interesting! I have yet to decide which camera I am going to buy, but it will be either the Nikon D610, the Nikon Df or the Canon 6D with a small, but versatile set of primes. The Nikon Df is a great camera and I am interested in that camera, because of being able to mount lenses which are even 50 years old. If I buy this camera, I will most probably use some very nice manual lenses.
If I buy the Df, that will do it for m43 except for the long end stuff. I love the size of the longer m43 lenses and HATE the size of the full frame telephotos. The Olympus 75mm and Panasonic 35-100 are extremely nice and fast lenses. And I REALLY love the way m43 uses stuff like face detection/recognition to make candid portraits easier. I also think I'll probably keep my Panasonic 7-14 because I like being able to shoot from odd angles (particularly very LOW angles) with ultra-wide and would hate to be limited to the OVF or a very clunky live view on the Df for that kind of shooting. So I'm gonna keep one m43 body and three lenses, maybe four (the 12-40 is incredibly useful for some kinds of shooting too, and the 24-70 or 24-80 options for the Df are beyond my size threshold as well - and I don't use zooms enough to care if I have them with me all the time).
But, man, full frame is really pretty addictive. I'm just determined to keep it from getting to be a big bag full of gear, which is why I'd stick with smaller primes (which are around the size of mid-sized primes in m43, like the Pany 25mm).
-Ray