So the bottom of the food chain for my kit is an older M43 camera and a kit lens.
I have standards and as it goes, these reach those standards.
This image has all the quality I need for a portfolio image, a news paper front or as a web page hero.
This is the original.
So, what was it taken with?
The camera was an Olympus M43 format EM1x which is not my bottom end choice, but it could as easily have been taken with one of my aging and beaten up EM1 Mk2’s, maybe even an old EM5 Mk1 which is now over 12 years old (and I have done and may well again).
The lens is the slightly better than kit level 75-300 f4.8-6.7, wide open at 300mm (600mm full frame equivalent), which is its weakest area. The lens is stunningly sharp up to 250mm and gets better using f8 at 300mm.
Good enough?
Was it a fluke?
No faces shown on these deliberately, but most did have sharp and clear.
Same settings and crop….
Yes, I have better options, but do I really need them in this low pressure, well lit space?
and again.
Lots more, about 400 to be exact. The AF on this lens is a little slower than my other options and is one of the few lenses I am actually aware of the focus in action. I miss some, but I do anyway, because the reality is folks, the human is often the weakest part of the machine.