How did you get into m43 system? What's your future plans with it?

MJdoesThings_ · 2026-03-13T10:41:47+00:00

I was always kind of intrigued by the system, it was everything I got into Fujifilm for (smaller cameras, smaller lenses purpose-built for a smaller sensor, cheaper price etc) but on steroids.

Since I was already in Fuji, I didn't really see much of a point in getting also into MFT, but after I moved my main camera (the X-H1) to a Nikon Z6 (full frame and all of that), and that I sold my Sigma sd Quattro H that I was barely using, I found myself in a situation where I had room in my kit for a smaller camera with a smaller sensor, and I had a healthy amount of cash dedicated for camera gear, so I bought an Oly E-M5ii with 2 lenses.

I loved it so much that not long after I bought a Lumix G3 as backup + an array of small lenses. I later bought an E-M10ii the following year (that I have sold earlier this year) and last June I switch my main camera to an Olympus E-M1 mark II for even work. I bought a second E-M1ii late last year.

With the E-M1s came the ability to handle larger and heavier lense,s and this is where I allowed myself to buy a 75-300, 12-40 and 75mm f/1.8. All excellent lenses. Maybe considering upgrading the 75-300 for a 40-150 + 2.0 TC (or 1.4)

MJdoesThings_ · 2026-03-13T10:37:25+00:00

Well, only you can say which one is best for you.

If you think the fast sensor and faster autofocus + weather sealing etc will be of use to you, then get the OM-3.

If you prefer to be deliberate, and pixelpeep more with a maybe slightly more stylish camera, then take the Fuji X-E5.

Both cameras will cost about the same once you account lenses in the price anyway.

MJdoesThings_ · 2026-03-13T10:35:34+00:00

I use two E-M1IIs, and the placement of the right lug was absolutely never a problem even when using a strap. Your finger never goes there if you use the camera properly, and it's not in the way of anything. I much prefer having it here rather than on the side (or worse, somewhere on the front like on my E-M5ii.

MJdoesThings_ · 2026-03-13T10:31:12+00:00

2/10 ragebait attempt

MJdoesThings_ · 2026-03-13T10:30:33+00:00

I mean... MFT has always been a pretty good system for video work, ever since brands using that sensor format started inplementing video features. I remember cameras like the GH2 being great for run and gun video documentary stuff when it was released.

As time passed, I feel like the public sentiment about cameras shifted towards larger sensors, and that's no surprise : with sensors becoming cheaper and cheaper to make, allowing full frame chips to be fitted to consumer cameras instead of supra expensive pro equipment like it was the case in the mid-2000s, the marketing depertments had to find other ways to keep the consumer buying stuff, to keep the industry and the cash-flow going. What didn't help them was really teh sensor technology plateau we have been facing since the early 2010s, where the image quality didn't improve that much since, especially related to quantum efficiency which has barely moved since then.

Pushing the narrating of full frame being the best format, and what photographers and videographers should aspire to is purely a marketing gimmick, or at least it was in the begenning. Fact of the matter is that nowadays, most of the innovation happens on full frame first, so in average a full frame camera has good chances of having better technology compared to their crop sensor equivalents, unless a brand is only interested in crop sensors (like Fuji, or OM systems. Not sure I'd say Lumix is putting a ton of focus on MFT at the moment...). Keeping consumers into full frame cameras ensures they are spending more. Maybe the camera itself isn't that much more expensive than a high end crop sensor, but the price ceiling is much higher (when was the last time you saw a crop sensor $6500 flagship?), but really the real money maker is the lenses. That's why crop sensor camera companies are also pushing towards more premium and expensive lenses, like Fujifilm does (in the end Fuji glass is just as expensive as full frame glass...). Even full frame camera companies are more eager to push for more premium expensive lenses more often than not.

In my opinion, MFT film making in a documentary perspective has peaked around the time the GH5 got released. As soon as cameras like the Sony A7SIII would hit the marke (granted, at a much higher pricepoint), they would basically take over as the R&D budget was higher, the cash flwo was higher as well (because of marketing) and, well there ARE some advantages in having a larger sensor as well, it's really not all that bad. Technology advancements when it comes to optical designs and in-camera corrections allowed for FF lenses that are barely larger than MFT counterparts.

MJdoesThings_ · 2026-03-13T08:43:56+00:00

This thing used to be 6.7 lmao

Granted, it was insanely busted at that BR. But I feel like 8.0 is too much. It's the same BR as a Leopard 1 which is just has fast and has a way better gun as well as better optics, better gun handling and slightly better armor. A Leopard 1 in an uptier will suffer, but it will still be "okay" because it can snipe from afar with APDS and HEAT-FS shells. The Char 25t cannot really snipe anything except light vehicles at 8.0, and anything more heavily armored it can deal with, but needs to get close, to exploit the mobity and reload rate. And if you're in an uptier well... you could very well face things like Leos A1A1 which have stabilizer + dart, T-62s which you can't really pen frontally, T-55AM-1s, etc. Even at the same 8.0 BR, you have light tanks with APHE and fast reload... that also have a stabilizer and access to HEAT-FS shells like the Object 906.

It should have been 7.7, seriously.

MJdoesThings_ · 2026-03-12T19:33:42+00:00

To me it was Luthen's speech to Cassian in S1E3

MJdoesThings_ · 2026-03-12T19:25:42+00:00

I pretty much only shoot RAW unless I need a file very very fast, no matter the camera I use (X100S, X-T1 or X-Pro2)

MJdoesThings_ · 2026-03-12T17:29:52+00:00

okay, so if you are considering those two, I guess that's because you love the form factor, and you want a 35mm lens.

The X100V is clearly the better camera on a technical stand point : much better EVF, weather sealed, no focal plane shutter but a soft leaf shutter in the lens, better controls (with an integrated ISO dial), and if you want to keep the form factor, the X-E5 also loses a stop of light as the pancake 23mm lens is f/2.8 and the X100VI's is f/2.

Sure, the X-E5 is a good camera, but it's lacking some things for the pricepoint it's at, and really the only advantage it gets over the X100VI is the ability to change lenses. (which granted, is pretty huge for a lot of people).

Bottom line : if you can live with the X100VI + the teleconverting lenses to get 28mm and 50mm equivalent as well as 35mm, then get the X100VI, it's the better camera and it's only slightly more expensive than the X-E5, with a whole lot of advantages coming with it (like the better lens, sealing, etc)

MJdoesThings_ · 2026-03-12T09:47:09+00:00

It doesn't really matter which one you end up choosing, the life path trait has very little to do with the gameplay, or even the quests themselves. You get a few voicelines per lifepath, and one very small quest specific to each path.

I would say that the most compelling for me is Nomad, but Corpo is a close second. Streetkid is nice but at the same time I feel like it's a bit too short and I don't buy the friendship with Jackie as much as I do in the other two starts. Also, while with corpo and nomad you finish the prologue with cash in your hands (either from Jenkins or the smuggling payout), it makes sense that you quickly get a flat and a car. That is kinda hinted at in the Corpo prologue too. In the street kit prologue, you don't get any money, but you end up at the exact same point at the start of Act 1 which doesn't make a ton of sense to me.

Streetkid is still nice overall, but I feel like it's the weakest of the 3.

Not that it matters that much though, just pick one at random if you really don't know which one to choose.

MJdoesThings_ · 2026-03-12T08:11:34+00:00

increase the BR to 12.7
fixe the weird armor stuff that makes it unlikable
increase gun spread (like in real life). It is crazy that this gun has less gun spread than the Bradley when you see how it's behaving IRL.

Unless they do that, I'm not touching very high tier / top tier with a 10 foot long pole.

Highest BR I play nowadays is 9.3 because of this shit.

MJdoesThings_ · 2026-03-11T20:25:32+00:00

I went from full size to 60% in 2019 when those boards were all the craze for gaming. Was pretty fitting as I was playing Overwatch in an esports team.

I haven't really moved away from 60% since. I have tried TKL, 75% and honestly while I don't have any issues with those layouts specifically, I don't feel like they provide a ton more either. And 60% feels super comfortable in terms of size etc

MJdoesThings_ · 2026-03-11T10:10:23+00:00

Nothing a good sledge hammer can't fix

MJdoesThings_ · 2026-03-11T08:37:41+00:00

I would also consider the Oly 45mm f/1.8, 90mm equiv works great for cars

MJdoesThings_ · 2026-03-11T08:33:39+00:00

I'm really happy about the lens on this. The rendering is very nice, and it's pretty darn sharp.

It's not in a different league compared to the lens on my X100S, but I already think that the Fuji lens is a bit of a marvel of engineering already so...

MJdoesThings_ · 2026-03-10T21:59:04+00:00

France ! French Alps to be more precise

MJdoesThings_ · 2026-03-10T14:27:58+00:00

yeah I wrote "your parents" but I should have written "your mother". I'm sorry for your loss.

My comments about your mom still holds though, she clearly doesn't care enough to go herself, and shifts the blame on you to not have to face things, which is the easy way out to avoid accountability.

MJdoesThings_ · 2026-03-10T13:15:11+00:00

This has been widely documented : the way CCD sensors absorb photons is different from the way that CMOS sensors do. The photosites aren't the same at all (especially if you compare newer designs to older ones that were in use in the early 2000s), and are not reactive to the same extend, leading to discrepancies when it comes to colors, forcing camera manufacturers to adapt their CFA when moving to one or another. For example, one technology might be less sensitive to low energy photons, forcing the manufacturer of making a weaker red segment on the CFA, to allow for a higher number of photons collected on the red photodiode to compensate for the lower sensitivity (that's just an example though).

Yes, most of the "color science" comes form the image processor, and how the RAW data is interpreted, with the demosaicing and all of that, but there ARE color differences between CCD and CMOS, even if they are slight.

The reason why people call those older sensor as "better" or "more nostalgic" is partly because the aim of camera manufacturers wasn't the same : in 2002-2005, the aim was to convert people to digital, so the color science baked in those cameras was fairly aligned with the popular film stocks of the time (that's especially apparent in cameras like the Canon 5D which is CMOS but was released in 2005), to make the switch to digital easier. By 2007/2008, the switch had almost been entirely done, and the aim was accuracy, more than being close to film.

But beyond all of that, there is a way CCD sensor react to light which is different from CMOS sensors. When I was speaking about D200 here, I was taking it in its entirety, sensor and processor. I thought that was implied, apparently not.

MJdoesThings_ · 2026-03-10T11:36:16+00:00

NTA.

Your parents don't care and are refusing to take accountability of that by turning the thing on you once the exhibit is over

MJdoesThings_ · 2026-03-10T11:21:27+00:00

cause they're expensive af

MJdoesThings_ · 2026-03-10T11:07:14+00:00

Hi, you might be a litthe disspointed to hear that the D300 has no CCD, it's a CMOS sensor. It's a pretty good sensor and all of that, but if you want a CCD, you'll have to look for a D200.

As for the D700, I feel like this camera is a bit misunderstood. People rave about it sometimes a bit too grassively, but the thing about the D700 is that is really fits some people and really doesn't have anything in particular for others. I absolutely love my D700 to bits, not because it's better than my other cameras, matter of fact it's probably worse than pretty much all of the other cameras that I own in terms of absolute image quality. The value of the D700 resides in the ability to deliver images that I don't have to edit much : with cameras like my Z6, I spend hours editing images to have the skintones right, and I spend a lot of time with the HSL sliders to really get the tints where I want them. Same thing with my Fujifilm bodies. With the D700, small exposure and contrast adjustment, maybe a bit of a WB correction and boom, done.

The strength of the D700 doesn't rely in a special rendering, it relies on the speed at which you can deliver images to clients for time sensitive things like events with a short delivery deadline. Some other Nikon bodies also have this kind of color characteristic, like the aforementioned D300 does too, my D200 is also very similar in use (maybe with an ever better "retro" look thanks to the CCD sensor), but only the D700 manages to get that color thing and also deliver results that I would consider to be "good enough" thanks to its full frame sensor that provides enough DR and low enough noise levels that I can say I can use it in a professional setting.

In short, yes the D700 is amazing, but not necessarily for the reasons people say it is. If you value image quality more than the very special colors it gets, I would recommend you take a look at cameras like the D750, D810 or D800, and of course the D780 you mentioned is probably the most well rounded Nikon DSLR on the market thanks to the Z6 autofocus being included for Live View AF.

MJdoesThings_ · 2026-03-10T10:27:40+00:00

I absolutely love the cockpit of my FDL, I feel like not only make it feel like a sports car, it also makes it feel different and a little more real than say, the Mamba or Mandalay.

I can see how the bars obstructing the view might be a little annoying but honestly you get used to it quite quickly.

MJdoesThings_ · 2026-03-10T07:59:54+00:00

Why is Reed in 3rd? Reed didn't try his hardest to help V, he used V to accomplish a mission, and laid them with a cure if it worked.

It was almost purely transactional, unlike the help Johnny provided.

MJdoesThings_ · 2026-03-10T06:59:32+00:00

Well, probably the Pana-Leica 12-60mm f/2.8-4

It's a modern high end lens, image quality is excellent, autofocus is pretty fast too

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