Full Frame Camera Vs Micro Four Thirds

My photography gear has evolved quite a bit over the years.

Full frame camera vs micro four thirds.

The myth was and is true when mirrorless cameras were using micro four thirds sensors or smaller. The fact that the necessary amount of material needed to produce the camera is less drives the price down. The camera industry s lumbering giants canon and nikon have just caught up and started releasing their own full frame mirrorless cameras. The focal length obtained by different sensors is also directly associated with.

My path is likely quite different from others you may have read. Full frame vs crop sensor vs micro four thirds. Mf vs full frame vs aps c vs micro four thirds. The full frame canon 5d mark iv the 1 6x crop aps c canon 1200d and the 2x crop micro four thirds olympus om d e m1 mark ii to add to the confusion canon s 1 6x crop isn t the standard for aps c sensor sizes.

Camera sensors explained crop factor. I actually would predict olympus will possibly pull out of this format they ll deny it of course which will eventually disappear as full frame and medium format mirrorless cameras will be reduced in sizes close to mft. Most micro four thirds cameras are not that much smaller or lighter than the smallest full frame cameras such as the sony mirrorless ones. Leaked photos of sony a7c show full frame camera with corner evf.

And here is where the myth about mirrorless cameras are much more portable than the dslr ones goes out the window. For me a bigger sensor wasn t the marker of a great camera. I now know olympus and micro four thirds will just never cut it versus full frame. While size is the most obvious difference that is only a portion of the story.

The real a ha moment continue reading from full frame to micro four thirds. The cost of micro four thirds vs dslr cameras the smaller size of the sensor and camera mean that the price of micro 4 3 cameras are lower. You only need to use both to understand why. If you re not sure what a micro four thirds camera is it s a smaller mirrorless camera that first came about in 2008 and has a crop factor of 2x in relation to full frame sensors aps c format.

Even panasonic a co pioneer of the mft system has. A full frame dslr camera is likely to need a full size backpack to go with it. What differs a lot though is the size and weight of the lenses.