Cdouthitt Loc: Traverse City, MI

RRS BOEM1 Arca-Swiss camera plate and/or HLD-7 powergrip solve that problem with the EM1.

Kuzano

It could be your locale. I moved to Coeur d'Alene in 1968. Transfer on the job. It seemed to me that everything in Northern Idaho was less sharp, as if a bit out of focus.

After about three month, I went to the Department of Motor Vehicles to get my drivers license changed. They wouldn't give me a license until I went to get my eyes checked. I did and went back with my new eye glasses, and "aced" the test. I drove home with my new license.

I stepped out on the patio, and I recall shouting back to my wife in the apartment.... "My God, those trees across the street have distinctly separate leaves!!!!" A comment I will carry to my grave.

From that moment forward, everybody in Northern Idaho seemed distinctly sharper.

My new eyeglasses were in fact mirrorless, and they did rest on the bridge of my nose. But I tend to think of mirrorless camera's, OR EVIL camera's (Electronic Viewfinder Interchangeable lens) as only those camera's with 4/3, APSc, and Full Frame sensors.

Of those, I think of 4/3 Olympus and Fujifilm X series cameras as inherently sharper image capture. Olympus because of the removal of the AA filter in the recent past, and Fujifilm because the X-CMOS sensor does not use or require any Low Pass AA filtering, which is the bane of sharpness at the camera level. After that, it's lens quality and photographic technique as far as sharpness is measured.

craggycrossers Loc: Robin Hood Country, UK

Tita - I can't understand why contributors to your post don't just SHOW you what you're looking for ..... Fuji X-E1 + XF 35mm f1.4 ....... Q.E.D.

English "brogues"

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GoofyNewfie Loc: Kansas City

I can smell the leather!

Kuzano

Have had a number of the Fujifilm SxPro models, a 1, two 2's, three 3's, and three 5's.

My new X-E1 arrives tomorrow. Have used Fujica, and Fujifilm Medium format, and Fujinon large format lenses for years. I think Fujica translated means "If you drop this, it's sharp enough to cut off your dick without feeling a thing, or Dreadfully Sharp!!"

I expect my Fujifilm X-E1 to be at least that sharp.

:XD:

Cdouthitt Loc: Traverse City, MI

Oh fine...be sensical why don't cha! :)
Here's a little running action. EM1 and 75mm

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pixelwars

True, or the battery grip.

G Brown Loc: Sunny Bognor Regis West Sussex UK

My Sony a65 lets you zoom in to focus before shooting, but it only works with Jpeg like most of its 'gizmo's' Nevertheless it takes a great Sony sharp picture in Raw too but thats at normal view in the viewfinder

craggycrossers Loc: Robin Hood Country, UK

Hey Clint ! I'm "in the old country" and really don't understand the word "sensical" - it's not even mentioned in The Oxford English Dictionary ! Nice photo, but don't really understand your point - is the question about "sharpness in action"? - your system works well for you - fantastic - mine for me - why worry? Tita will make up her own mind !

brrywill

I'm not sure what you are looking for. I shoot Nikon and Canon full frame cameras, but also use Olympus and Fuji for less size and weight. I find the smaller cameras to be just as sharp as the larger ones, sometimes with even better depth of field due to the shorter focal length of the smaller lenses.

I can see an argument, perhaps, for greater enlargeability from the larger sensors, just like larger negatives tend to produce better large prints. You might also notice a few more intermediate tones with the larger sensors, but sharpness should not be an issue. I've attached two photos taken with my Fuji X-T1 and 23mm f1.4 lens. I doubt you would see better sharpness with the larger cameras. Taken with natural window light.

X-T1, 23mm f1.4


X-T1, 23mm f1.4

dmsM43

I've been using Panasonic and Olympus mirrorless cameras for the last 4 years. Very light weight and compact. I have no issues with sharpness of the Panasonic lenses that I use, or my old Canon FD lenses that I also use on my mirrorless cameras. In fact, the reason I got into mirrorless cameras, is because I had a closet full of Canon FD glass in my closet. Now I can finally use those lenses. Here are a couple of examples. The first one is a crop of the full image and taken with a manual focus 400mm lens handheld. The second one was taken with the Panasonic 14-45mm kit lens on a tripod. And I also don't post full res files, but I think that you can see that there are no problems with the capabilities of the cameras or lenses, if the photographer does his or her part.

Cdouthitt Loc: Traverse City, MI

It was tounge and cheek, as in, you made a valid point. We should show images from mirrorless that show sharpness. In my case the kids we moving quickly at me and I was still able to get a sharp photo.

speters Loc: Grangeville/Idaho

All of the Fuji X-series cameras have very high, excellent image quality!! But so have many others.

wdross Loc: Castle Rock, Colorado

That is why the 4/3rds system do not necessarily need software to decrease the amount of vignetting in the corners. The exiting rear element of most 4/3rds lenses are 25mm which is the same size as the image circle. For most full frame (if not all), the body's lense mount prevents the full frame lense from having a 48mm rear element. Straighting up the light sents it straight into the tube like pixels instead of at an angle. This helps to prevent the loss of light at the pixel.

Delderby Loc: Derby UK

A couple of years or so ago the Panasonic MFT 14-45mm was voted the best kit lens ever. Certainly it is sharper than the 14-42mm that followed, which also received accolades. It was Panasonic's first ever MFT lens - so they had to make it good - as they did with the original G1 camera eight years ago. 14-45s are still available, but getting harder to find. :-)