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  1. I don`t care about electronically controlled lenses...I never used them for video and even when I did I wished I haven`t. 

    ​That's true, but that also means it makes such an adapter incredibly niche.

  2. Didn't I answer this question somewhere? No, because there's no demand and how are you going to adapt electronically controlled lenses? Easier to wait for the next GM to have 4K.

  3. Might be of interest to D750 owners, particularly in light of the new Rode wireless mic.product announced recently.

    A simple clip on wireless mic. setup for $250

    http://www.europe-nikon.com/en_GB/product/accessories/slr/slr-connectivity/audio-video/me-w1-wireless-microphone

    ​Isn't this the Bluetooth set that both Canon and Sony already sell? I'm not confident of Bluetooth as a hi-fidelity wireless solution.

  4. The main issue is that m43 lenses are all electronic, so there's no point in adapting them to E mount, hence I haven't seen any adapters for that purpose.

    The most versatile mount to get is the Nikon F mount version. Just in case Nikon makes something you want. :P

  5. So close yet so far away.

    Micro Four Thirds needs to go high end if it is to remain a serious prospect for stills.

    I know people who wonder why ANYONE would shoot stills on anything other than full frame.

    Well you have lenses to compensate for that, on APS-C - the Sigma 18-35mm F1.8 is one. The Fuji 56mm F1.2 and 35mm F1.4 too.

    On Micro Four Thirds you have noise problems above 3200 and difficulties getting closer to the full frame look.

    This was fine when the prices were low (GH2), or video spectacular (GH4) but when Olympus is serving up 2011 vintage E-M5 image quality in 2015 you do start to wonder whether it is all worth the effort any more.

    It's not like we have a lack of alternatives!!

    What I think will happen is that the high end mirrorless market will go to the A7, the X-T1, etc.

    I am sure the lower end consumer stills market will still love the E-M5 II but Micro Four Thirds need to also compete in that high end mirrorless market as well and it is losing the battle there.

    ​I shoot stills, and m4/3 is fine if you don't take it beyond its performance envelope, which is actually fairly large. I think being a snob on FF for stills is no different being a snob on LF back in the days when Oskar Barnack came up with the Leica I in the 1920s. I remember reading about how people would disparage Barnack's idea in similar terms people harp on companies not using "full-frame" sensors in all their cameras because they "too small" for serious work.

  6. ​Eye-ball estimation, that?  So, that turns a 12mm lens into about a ff-equivilant 32mm.  A 50 becomes a 135, etc.  Bummer.  Not to mention it ruins all my easy 2x math calculations when putting lenses onto a M43 camera.  12 to 24 -- I can add that up.  Slap a decimal into the mix and I get stupider than I already am.

    ​How to do CX crop calculations the easy way: multiply by 3 and take 10% off. So say you have a 200mm

    200 x 3 = 600

    10% of 600 is 60, so 600 - 60 = 540.

    Easy peasy.

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