If all goes well I might write a book about the area which would be a mixture of photography and natural history, land use etc. In the past I've shot everything from 4x5 film down to using the Panasonic LX3.

I've not shot FF digital though, APS-C is my largest digital experience. Presently I shoot m43 and my main landscape lenses are primarily the 7-14 and the 14-45. Rarer longer focal length shots with the 45-200 or 45-175 - both of which leave a little bit to be desired. I will seriously consider adding the 12-35/2.8 and 35-100/2.8 for next year as they give a bit of a boost to the corners for landscape shots. I found it offered almost no practical IQ advantage over the m43 offering and sold it all (again, the longer focals being an exception - nothing quite like the 70-200/F4 in the m43 stable at this time, though the 35-100 is probably the closest fit). My composition technique is to compose without the camera to find the perspective and framing I want, then I get out the camera and appropriate focal length to match my chosen framing. I don't find prime shooting to jive with my landscape shooting - 'zoom with your feet' simply does not work because it changes perspective. I'm trying to figure out what, if anything, is it worth my 'upgrading' to for this special year? Cropping primes pretty quickly causes them to lose their IQ advantage to a zoom set to the desired focal length - unless of course you carry a mountain of primes. To date I have to travel by air to the Mojave so the compactness of m43 is excellent. For this opportunity I'd live in driving distance of the Mojave and so I could go larger. I think I'd still use m43 on most hikes, but many shot locations in twilight are relatively close to my vehicle so again going bigger seems reasonable. So I'm looking at FF then.Īgain, restricted to zooms and still a bit size adverse what really are my options? Notionally it seems all the APS-C options just aren't significantly better than m43.

Lastly, what am I honestly looking at size wise if I want zoom coverage from say about 15 to 200 and what sort of IQ improvement am I getting with that? etc.Ĭanon FF sensors are pretty poor, but maybe a new one in the next year? The A7/A7r seems half baked, glass has to be adapted, shutter shock, etc. I'm under the impression that it is awfully hard to realize a large IQ gain going FF with zooms and to get even close I'll definitely be going with SLR instead of mirrorless lens offerings.

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