Anon09/14/25, 16:44No.4467907
Micro four thirds was never meant for photographers. It was meant for the "family photo" market that made poorly shot SOOC jpeg vacation 4x6s with purse sized. Especially that market in japan, where ultra casual vacation cameras were a thing for longer than they were in the west. It is huge engineering challenge to get the quality on par with a 16mp APS-C DSLR, optically and electronically. When the family snap market dried up due to phones, olympus tried and failed to appeal to photographers by adding tech gimmicks that photographers barely had any use for and therefore olympus died. Panasonic went for the amateur video market instead, since image quality is borderline meaningless for video but the small sensor size enables faster readouts and less heat generation for less money.So in the end, olympus made garbage and spending more than $350 or so on an olympus body is for idiots, and panasonic made really good camcorders for the money.Anyone viewing an m43 photo at the full 16-20mp, with web browser scaling, is going to be disappointed. These cameras were never meant to spread their 20mp across 72dpi. That's hard to make look good even if you own a hasselblad because bayer hits its limit fast. They were meant to squish it down into a 300dpi 4x6. An 8x10 for photos that people would never be able to look closely at, maybe.