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  1. J

    Budget camera to pair with Olympus 100-400mm Lens

    How many of your shots fill the frame with the bird, so you don't need to crop? Unless many do, or come close, you are unlikely to get any noise advantage from the larger sensor. (Edit: Note also your 600mm lens still has less reach than the olympus lens on a m4/3 camera, which is 800mm...
  2. J

    Budget camera to pair with Olympus 100-400mm Lens

    As I indicated above, the EM-1 mk ii or above is where I think the sweet spot is in these cameras (I have owned and used the mk i, mk ii, and OM-1; was never even tempted to upgrade to the mkiii – it was basically the same camera as the mk ii for bird photography purposes). The mk i only has a...
  3. J

    Budget camera to pair with Olympus 100-400mm Lens

    I was on a tour in 2019 with my EM-1 mkii and two other participants had the latest nikon full frame cameras that were supposed to have the latest and greatest autofocus. (This was before bird AI). My camera struggled with birds in flight against busy backgrounds, but it turned out the nikon...
  4. J

    Budget camera to pair with Olympus 100-400mm Lens

    With a canon, you will be cropping more with bird photos than with M4/3 using the same length lens. That effectively means you are working with a similar sized sensor. In any event, the low light performance of oly m4/3 sensors improved greatly from the Oly EM-1 mk. i to the mk. ii. There is...
  5. J

    Budget camera to pair with Olympus 100-400mm Lens

    Unfortunately, the oly 100-400mm lens does not provide dual image stabilization with olympus bodies. Did you mean EM-1 mark ii or mark iii? There is no mark IX.
  6. J

    Budget camera to pair with Olympus 100-400mm Lens

    There are no significant upgrades in the mk iii vs mk ii for bird photography. I recently got the OM-1, and other than bird AI and some other bells and whistles, don't find any major improvements compared to the EM-1 ii for bird photography.
  7. J

    Budget camera to pair with Olympus 100-400mm Lens

    Oly EM-1 mk.ii is still close to state of the art. It doesn't have bird AI focus assist, but has most everything else you'd want for bird photography. It's lighter than the G9. (Also, PL 100-400mm is lighter than Oly 100-400 btw; if that's important to you.)
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