Full Frame Camera Vs Micro Four Thirds

The camera industry s lumbering giants canon and nikon have just caught up and started releasing their own full frame mirrorless cameras.

Full frame camera vs micro four thirds.

Mf vs full frame vs aps c vs micro four thirds. My photography gear has evolved quite a bit over the years. While size is the most obvious difference that is only a portion of the story. Full frame vs crop sensor vs micro four thirds.

I now know olympus and micro four thirds will just never cut it versus full frame. Camera sensors explained crop factor. The focal length obtained by different sensors is also directly associated with. And here is where the myth about mirrorless cameras are much more portable than the dslr ones goes out the window.

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. Most micro four thirds cameras are not that much smaller or lighter than the smallest full frame cameras such as the sony mirrorless ones. In the video marc compares three cameras with three different sizes of sensor. 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.

What differs a lot though is the size and weight of the lenses. 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. This is why lenses for full frame cameras are larger in comparison from those built for say micro four thirds cameras. For me a bigger sensor wasn t the marker of a great camera.

The fact that the necessary amount of material needed to produce the camera is less drives the price down. As mentioned above a full frame camera has a 35mm sensor based on the old film format concept. Leaked photos of sony a7c show full frame camera with corner evf. The myth was and is true when mirrorless cameras were using micro four thirds sensors or smaller.

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. A full frame dslr camera is likely to need a full size backpack to go with it. Even panasonic a co pioneer of the mft system has.