43 Rumors

Interesting comparison by Steve – to my eyes I see no real difference in ‘look’ (ignoring AWB) until the last shot, where no wide-angle on Four Thirds is going to give you that kinda subject/background separation.

Looks to me like the Mp is blowing highlights quicker in the first shot (or perhaps just more ‘abruptly’…)

Just realize all 3 cameras don’t start with ISO 100 anymore. May be a stupid question… is the IQ between ISO 100 and ISO 200 on new generation of sensor have no difference anymore?

If you look at Sony, these days they start doing everything right what Olympus and Panasonic keep doing wrong for the last two or three years.

And it’s not only manual focus with the NEX. But speaking of it, I’ve always wondered how hard it can be for Olympus to at least implement the picture-in-picture feature Panasonic has – and even Olympus used to have many years ago, in principle, in cameras like the C-8080WZ, although so poorly implemented that it was ridiculous, unusable.

No, it’s their attitude to DLSR vs. mirrorless. Sony, just like inofficial sources from within Olympus/Panasonic hinted already two years ago, seems to think that contrast AF cannot be the be-all, end-all substitute for phase detection AF, and so they keep and improve phase detection AF, too, and they continue to improve their DSLR line, with the highly interesting A77 appearing next, which will probably surpass each and every Olympus DSLR in about every aspect, and for a price far below the only remaining Olympus DSLR.

More than that, they are about to introduce an A-mount adapter for the NEX featuring the fixed mirror of recent Alpha DSLRs, phase detection AF, and an AF motor which will make not only current Alpha lenses, but even the oldest Minolta A-mount lenses fully compatible!

With full access to the complete A-mount lens lineup, without any AF performance penalty at all, and with the ambitious NEX-7 on its way, I predict that the NEX system will outclass Micro Four Thirds within the next one or two years, just like Four Thirds has already been outclassed by virtually every other player in the field.

As an Olympus digital camera enthusiast since 1999 and a Four Thirds enthusiast since 2005, the only remaining question for me these days seems to be, which of the other systems will be the one best suited to provide my photographic gear in the future. While I’m still not in a rush to switch head over heels, right now it seems that Sony is about to become the strongest contender.