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Fullframe vs. MFT - size of lenses
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Lsake
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Had a 12-32mm in the G85 era but sold after a few months. It was too small and fiddly, required extending to activate with limited zoom range.
Got my first 20-60mm 5 years ago and it continues to see regular use.
A G9II with 12-60mm vs S5II with 20-60mm is an interesting comparison but I’d still pick the S5.
Lumix G9ii with the Lumix-Leica 12-35/2.8 Mk3 would be even more interesting.
Markuswelder
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231203-P1000719 by Markus Welder, on FlickrG9 with PL 8-18 vs S5 & 20-60mm. The reason I moved to the S5, as they're within a few grams of each other.
And there's no AF 25mm or 42.5mm weather sealed F0.9 lenses in m4/3, and what there is, is as big, heavier and more expensive than my S primes.
Markuswelder
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RuleOfThirds
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And now do a compare with the 100-400 Leica zoom, with a 200-800 
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Lsake
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I had this exact lens on a GH5. Excellent lens, but you say, not really any smaller than the 20-60mm and about 3x the price.
Lsake
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Closest I can get to this is my sigma 100-400mm DG DN with 2x TC. It ends up at like 800mm f13 but in bright conditions it works well enough and it’s super light weight.And now do a compare with the 100-400 Leica zoom, with a 200-800
That is not a fair comparison
You can not compare a 8-18mm f2.8-4.0 with a 20-60mm f3.5-5.6. These are 2 totally different worlds for lens design, both in the wider 8mm and in the brighter aperture, which is really difficullt for 8mm. No wonder that the 8-18 is big.
Take the Olympus 9-18 and the comparison is still unfair, but the outcome is different in favor of MFT.
Take then the GX9 body on that Oly WA zoom and the difference is more like night and day.
I see the advantages of fullframe/L-Mount, but depending on which body and lens you choose, MFT has still a significant weight and size advantage.
Travis Butler
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Yeah. That's the thing I didn't get about the M4/3 market; the big advantage was size and weight, so why did they keep coming out with huge bodies like the E-M1X and that G9, instead of more bodies like the Pen-F? Though at least now there is the OM5, which does look tempting.
I think they misjudged the demand for small cameras, same like the whole industry missed the train for high end compact cameras.
They might have thought, that in the future, only people who use telezooms will be interested in MFT. For big telezooms you beed bigger bodies to hold it comfortable.
OM system tries to offer now more. The OM5 is still an Olympus product and more or less a Olympus EM5 Mk3.. It will be interesting whether OM system will launch a real new replacement for the OM5.
The OM3 is a different product and also here, OM system saved money. My guess is that they wanted to use the same innerts of the OM1ii. This is why the OM3 is so wide. IMHO OM3 should be a lot smaller.
I hope that Panasonic wakes up and will bring out this year a real MFT size of camera with a very good EVF. It dies not have to by a hybrid camera or at least not a very good one. Focus on photography and on size.
They might have thought, that in the future, only people who use telezooms will be interested in MFT. For big telezooms you beed bigger bodies to hold it comfortable.
OM system tries to offer now more. The OM5 is still an Olympus product and more or less a Olympus EM5 Mk3.. It will be interesting whether OM system will launch a real new replacement for the OM5.
The OM3 is a different product and also here, OM system saved money. My guess is that they wanted to use the same innerts of the OM1ii. This is why the OM3 is so wide. IMHO OM3 should be a lot smaller.
I hope that Panasonic wakes up and will bring out this year a real MFT size of camera with a very good EVF. It dies not have to by a hybrid camera or at least not a very good one. Focus on photography and on size.