08-12-2015, 08:40 PM
I've been a long time user of Canon DSLR now, but I have no loyalty beyond what's best for my needs at the time. I feel I might be reaching a changing point in that I'm about to pass a significant decade and the weight is starting to get to me a bit.
In the past week I went on a reptile hunt and probably never got more than 1km from the car park. But the weight of even my lighter "cover all scenarios" kit bag was really getting to me. In the past I've even carried multiple bags no problem but that may be too far away now.
My kit bag at the time was:
7D2
EF-S 10-18
EF-S 15-85
Sigma 150mm macro
Samyang 8mm fisheye
(EF 70-300L)
So, what would the nearest equivalent bag be if I went MFT? For these particular lenses, speed is totally unimportant. Or could I do the same with another system? Let's say I want to try "weight priority" here, so size is not important.
Note I will exclude the 70-300L from the comparison as that is one area I'm not willing to compromise by attempting to replicate on MFT. I will still be using Canon for its strengths like shallow depth of field (fast primes) and AF tracking performance particularly with longer lenses.
There is one more big condition: I'm not totally giving up on Canon, just considering swapping out parts of my lineup. In particular, I don't want to change zoom directions. This is a big criteria to meet. In practice, that means any mechanical zoom lenses would have to be Olympus, but Panasonic power zooms may be ok too. Primes remain open to any AF system, but I'd accept MF on the fisheye.
I'm out of touch with the MFT bodies so that is totally open. I don't absolutely need EVF, but I do need IBIS. Tilt screen would be a huge plus. For these lenses I'm willing to give up decent tracking AF. Did I say I want low cost?
I'm not intending to go high end on this system so keep costs down!
So for starters, how about...
UWA: Oly 9-18mm. I'd prefer wider, but don't want to pay for the 7-14. I might even skip this totally as I don't really do much UWA at all, and find a fisheye suffices on the rare occasion.
Standard zoom: Oly 12-50 EZ. On high level spec this sounds good. I went to look at the review of it but the charts are broken reporting "invalid JSON" or similar. Tried in two browsers. The conclusion doesn't exactly paint a good picture. I'd really prefer a 24mm equiv wide angle over the 28's, but with overlap with the UWA is a cheap 14-xx much better? Or even a 14-150?
Macro: I think either the PanLeica 45 or Oly 60mm would be ok here (I don't mind them being shorter than the Sigma) - but what else is there in Sigma or Zeiss land? I do want AF and the various Zeiss ranges confuse me.
Fisheye: I think would be a choice between the MFT Samyang or the lenscap.
Any thoughts?
In the past week I went on a reptile hunt and probably never got more than 1km from the car park. But the weight of even my lighter "cover all scenarios" kit bag was really getting to me. In the past I've even carried multiple bags no problem but that may be too far away now.
My kit bag at the time was:
7D2
EF-S 10-18
EF-S 15-85
Sigma 150mm macro
Samyang 8mm fisheye
(EF 70-300L)
So, what would the nearest equivalent bag be if I went MFT? For these particular lenses, speed is totally unimportant. Or could I do the same with another system? Let's say I want to try "weight priority" here, so size is not important.
Note I will exclude the 70-300L from the comparison as that is one area I'm not willing to compromise by attempting to replicate on MFT. I will still be using Canon for its strengths like shallow depth of field (fast primes) and AF tracking performance particularly with longer lenses.
There is one more big condition: I'm not totally giving up on Canon, just considering swapping out parts of my lineup. In particular, I don't want to change zoom directions. This is a big criteria to meet. In practice, that means any mechanical zoom lenses would have to be Olympus, but Panasonic power zooms may be ok too. Primes remain open to any AF system, but I'd accept MF on the fisheye.
I'm out of touch with the MFT bodies so that is totally open. I don't absolutely need EVF, but I do need IBIS. Tilt screen would be a huge plus. For these lenses I'm willing to give up decent tracking AF. Did I say I want low cost?
I'm not intending to go high end on this system so keep costs down!
So for starters, how about...
UWA: Oly 9-18mm. I'd prefer wider, but don't want to pay for the 7-14. I might even skip this totally as I don't really do much UWA at all, and find a fisheye suffices on the rare occasion.
Standard zoom: Oly 12-50 EZ. On high level spec this sounds good. I went to look at the review of it but the charts are broken reporting "invalid JSON" or similar. Tried in two browsers. The conclusion doesn't exactly paint a good picture. I'd really prefer a 24mm equiv wide angle over the 28's, but with overlap with the UWA is a cheap 14-xx much better? Or even a 14-150?
Macro: I think either the PanLeica 45 or Oly 60mm would be ok here (I don't mind them being shorter than the Sigma) - but what else is there in Sigma or Zeiss land? I do want AF and the various Zeiss ranges confuse me.
Fisheye: I think would be a choice between the MFT Samyang or the lenscap.
Any thoughts?
<a class="bbc_url" href="http://snowporing.deviantart.com/">dA</a> Canon 7D2, 7D, 5D2, 600D, 450D, 300D IR modified, 1D, EF-S 10-18, 15-85, EF 35/2, 85/1.8, 135/2, 70-300L, 100-400L, MP-E65, Zeiss 2/50, Sigma 150 macro, 120-300/2.8, Samyang 8mm fisheye, Olympus E-P1, Panasonic 20/1.7, Sony HX9V, Fuji X100.