Micro 4/3 is good enough for big prints 

There are photographers who pixel peep, and there are photographers who print. Lovely video.

I printed a large canvas from a 16mp image from my G80 and my wife kept wiping the canvas because she thought it was dirty. Turns out it was dirt on the zebra that I photographed!!

Cheers. The photography community (well, the world really) needs more of this. We get so caught up in the hardware comparison cycle.... when we should just be out shooting and sharing our art. Thanks!

This is exactly what I have been saying to my photography mad friends! I have a Nikon D750, Olympus E-M10 Mk ii and a Panasonic GX-80. I have high quality optics for the D750, and literally 'cheap' Pana/Oly/Sigma glasses for the MFT cameras. I cannot tell the difference between the D750 and the MFT cameras unless I magnify the images to 1 metre wide (which I don't). The D750 gives me better tonality and slightly better definition, but that is only for critical work. Indeed, I use my MFT gear 90% of the time now! I carry two bodies and 4 lenses, all in one shoulder bag that weights less than 2 kg.! No way can I do that with my D750. The reason we buy cameras is to go out and enjoy photography, not be smug about what brick you have on your neck!

You’re wrong. Oh. No. Wait. You’re actually empirically quite right. Absolutely fascinating from start to finish 😊👍

This video is a revelation! Thank you so much for taking the time to show us what a 4/3 camera is able to do. I love it!

I really liked your comment about not believing everything you hear on the internet. That's good advice no matter what the subject!

Brilliant demonstration. I am glad you also picked a dynamic range challenging scene. m43 is absolutely fantastic. The price of high quality cameras and lenses for m43 is unreal. High end Photography has never been this easy to get into. And to be able to do professional level work with it as well.

Fantastic video. So true that people should stop worrying about equipment and spend more time making photos!

Really good to see someone talking some basic sense on image quality. Most of my best shots were taken on a 6MP Canon SLR from 2002, and they look great up to A3, and still make decent A2 prints. There's far too much gear gatekeeping in photography these days by people who are obsessed with the relatively tiny differences between formats and launch into hyperbole about them.

You’ve just cured my G.A.S. and saved me a lot of money - thanks! :)

What a great demo! Thanks for sharing.

Thank you for this!! Your video was the final straw that convinced me to purchase the e-m1 mark ii.

My G85 and I thank you for this solid presentation.

Very well done !!! CONGRATS !! YOU ARE EXACT ON POINT !!! thank you soo much for your time !!!

Thanks for the video Steve. It was certainly educational, informative and entertaining. Always enjoyable to view your work and walks. Cheers from Canada.

Great one Steve! Totally agree with your view about making prints on M4/3! In fact in some ways I think 4/3 sensor has some advantages over larger sensors regarding depth of field. Larger sensors will record greater detail and cleaner images but those differences will only be noticeable when looking at large prints from up close. Secondly most people seldom print bigger than A3 in which case the quality differences are hardly worth discussing. For pro photographers I think the main advantage of high resolution is the ability to make large crops and still maintain enough resolution for the same large prints.

who would have thought that Mads Mikkelsen uses micro 4/3 sensor and print big files.

Great subject and great editing. Got my attention from beginning to end. Very well done!

Brilliant, entertaining and effective! you nailed it about the "need" aspect for printing. Well done, great video and a beautiful photo and print.

GR8 informative video and excellent advert for 4/3 😊👍🏻

Spot on, I have an omd em1 and it's perfect for my needs, and the quality of the prints that come out of it are superb!

This should be shared further. Thank you Steve. The videos I have seen from you also seem to have improved over time. Well done, and looking forward to seeing more. 👍

WOW!!! Steve that was interesting and great photo. Thanks for all the work.

what a fantastic vlog sharing! fluent,professional and gorgeous picture.finally revealed a fact the micro 4/3 is adequate .i totally agree with you.thanks for sharing.

Steve bostin video. I would now think about adding 4\3 to my collection of formats after watching your video. Thank you Pol.

I did find this very informative, educational, entertaining and even inspiring for photographer like myself on a small sensor budget. Thanks and nicely done!

Nice to see a practical "proof is in the pudding" video on this topic. I liked that you showed the printmaking process all the way from concept to finished print. Well done!

Hi Steve! This video is excellent. A while back, you did a similar video, but instead of a micro 4/3re camera, you used a 35mm camera. Based on that video, I came across a 35mm Olympus Trip, from the Salvation Army Thrift Shop, camera circa 1970 or so, for $10 Canadian. I'm bringing it, and my Canon EOS M2 with me in a trip to Ireland this fall. The Olympus Trip will be loaded with black and white, the EOS M2 will be for colour and video. Based on your video this morning, I'm travelling with a full frame digital (well, after scanning the film,) and all the wonders of a somewhat modern digital as well. Both are amazingly small, and only the Canon requires batteries, as the Trip uses a lens mounted light meter that, magically, makes its own electricity, and (cheekily) is solar powered! Thanks again for all the videos you post, Steve. They are always both educational and inspiring.

I had the EM5 back in 2013 and found it to print amazing images. Now I have the Pen F and it is even better. My little travel and hiking wonder cameras.

well done Steve ! amazing video and content!

Very interesting and helpful. Your video makes me see how important it is to get out and explore the world with the time and resources you already have.

Great video Steve, I love my Olympus Em1, will never now go back to the bulky full frame alternatives out there 👍

You are absolutely correct. Thanks ...

Thanks for making this video - nice to see M43 doing so well for big prints

Great video Steve! It’s educational and you combine technical knowledge with art. And I guess that’s what taking stills has always been about. I never like getting up early for a shot but you made me reconsider 😃 Keep up those great videos!

Hi Steve, good to see you going big with M4/3 prints. I'm now using a G9 and a GH5 for my paid work after selling most of my Canon gear which I had built up over many years. It gives me all I need for a digital workflow at the moment. I still have my Canon FD gear though and often use these lenses on the Panasonic cameras with a cheap dumb adapter. Works a treat.

Steve, really pleasant and informative video. I shoot full frame, I love it but it is a bit of a beast to carry around. I bought my son a Panasonic 16MP m4/3 kit, and he loves it. Great photos for most situations, and OK photos in low light. Ease of carrying means a lot!

Fast becoming a favorite photography channel of mine. Lucid, real-world and practical, advocate AGAINST paradigm of more = better. I enjoy the start-to-finish depiction and the insights along the way: start with describing the plan, cutaways to shots and tips during the shoot, return to studio for post work, and wrap up discussion. Tidy. And the thoughtful narration and editing make +15 min videos an easy watch. Extremely well-done videos here, thank you very much Steve. Of course it only all works as long as the end result of the work resonates with the audience. I, for one, am hugely impressed. Perhaps because I've grown up with photography, dad was a camera enthusiast before digital was an option, I've never found the ultra-clean, grain-free, "silky" sharp look of modern well-processed photography all that compelling: sorta like electronic music with no soul. But put a drum machine and a sampler in the hands of the right person? There's magic in everything- just takes an original mind to extract it.

Thanks a lot Steve! Great explaining and examples!

Thank you, Steve :) great job. The photograph looks exciting. And I'm surprised - you did it a simple lens gear. This small camera - Oly E-PL5 is a perfect universal tool.

Great video Steve! I've personally made multiple A3 prints from my Olympus Em10 Mark I and I have been more than satisfied with the image quality. Oh and I love the Panasonic 40-150mm! Such a fantastic lens for the price👍

Really convincing video, well done 👍

Thank you Steve, such a rational approach

absolutely agree with all of this.

very nice video , i got my em5 makr 2 this year , and saved a lot of money MFT have a lot of features and beats FF in many areas

Thank you for not only showing the capabilities of a smaller sensor, but also the brilliance that kit lens can be.

Thanks for this! M43 is really any amazing system and proof that there really aren't any bad cameras any more. Anyone who says your wrong is simply insecure about their own choices. Thanks again, from an EM5 mark 2 user.

The GX9 is a smaller camera but with the same or similar 20 megapixel sensor. I have the GX80, also a great camera but compact. Great video, it shows the M43 cameras can produce some great photos and prints :-)

You're dead right. I came to that conclusion a while ago, and that is why I switched to m43 system completely. Thanks for the great job.

I have the same Olympus OMD EM5 and am using it for all purpose. I think it is about what suits to our needs. Thank you for your honest opinion, glad that you have your channel putting an effort to deliver us right content.

That sunrise is amazing!

My E-P5 is still my favorite travel camera.

RU-vid's algorithm recommended your channel to me and as someone who loves micro four thirds and looking to get a system for travel and backpacking, I want to say thanks to you and the algorithm! Very jealous that you have a printer capable of making such big prints too!

Very convincing! Thanks

Another top honest vlog thanks Steve along with Craig at E6 the best by far 🙏

Great test Steve. I agree if you start with a well exposed quality raw file and process it properly you can make nice prints from older, lower MP cameras. The other thing to keep in mind is viewing distance. Yes if you hold prints up to your nose, prints from FF cameras will look better at such close viewing distances, but it would probably be difficult to tell the difference at proper viewing distances.

One of your best videos yet Steve, more please 📷

Excellent video being a four thirds shooter myself I couldn’t agree more. Thankyou for highlighting a much maligned system of late that is still capable of excellent results. I changed from full frame a few years ago and have never regretted it. I can carry it all day long without really noticing it.

Thanks Steve, I just subscribed and look forward to more interesting videos

Excellent! I have been shooing my 12mp full frame Canon 5d since I bought it new in 2007. My experience exactly mirrors yours - I do have other "better" cameras but 16mp is just fine folks. Its still my go to slr camera for digital.

Great video the Panasonic GX80 must be one of the best compact micro four thirds, now use my G9 and my Ricoh GRii for street. I would have kept the GX80 but it's not so pocketable as the GR

Excellent video, thank you

Great prints and photos!

A cell phone can print a damned good 8x10...the Micro 4/3 is no better or worse than any other camera system in that the skill of the photographer is 10000x more important than the gear.

Cool! I personally have been rocking A3+ (13' x 19") with my 1" sensor FZ2500 Lumix! Very nice results!

Hi Steve, wonderful content..... your prints look amazing. well done Olympus Em5 Mk1 regards IanJB

Very interesting and just what I needed to see 👍👌

I love my Olympus EM1 Mark III, used to shoot Nikon.

Or a very small CMOS crop sensor camera, Pentax KP

Very informative video, nicely presented, well done, thanks.

I like your channel very much. Found it a couple of weeks ago when i stumbled over your video why m43 is perfect for landscapes. I always asked myself why I like the look of the results I get from m43 and feel no need to upgrade to a larger sensor. You said it in that video: m43 pictures have an organic look and therefore are more pleasing to the eye. I agree with you. Keep up the good work.

I use a Lumix GX85 and a 12-35 f2.8. It has given me some great larger prints

Enjoyed the video Steve, as I do all of them. I'm old school and don't believe the photo is complete until it is printed, matted and framed. I suspect you may be of the same mindset. My camera inventory (film & digital) is pretty similar to yours and I have no issue printing and selling prints up to A1 size with any of them, micro 4/3 up to 6x7 film. I own a G9 and was interested in the 80 MP high res mode, being in the southwest US where tree movement and such is a non issue. Even though the results can be impressive when done right, I found the straight 20 MP files were perfectly fine for what I print, even cropped to 15 MP square format, the format I use 80-90% of the time.

Great video. Thanks!

Honest opinion great to hear

Awesome video! For me A4 is more than enough and more than I need. I own an Olympus OMD EM10 mark II with 16mpx resolution and folks always bashed me around saying I could not get a decent A4 pic out of it... Can you use Jpeg files or need to be Raw?

is it random that the video is 14:42 long? my panasonic lens has that name haha I hope it is not random ;) great video!

Very useful!!! Thank you very much

Enjoyed it, thanks for clear and easy to listen to explanation, good points.

I have and use the same camera and some primes. I think the primes are good and relatively inexpensive. A good tripod and cable release help get the most out of the setup. And the 4x3 aspect ratio is perfect imho, which is the reason I use this camera!

I don't even print but I watched this....using a Panasonic gf3 in 2019

Greetings from New York. Just discovered your channel and find the initial video excellent. I just added an Olympus EM-1M1 as a "back up" to my D810 FF kit after a recent knee injury. I did spend a bit more on the glass but not much more than you did for your camera in the video. I can attest to the quality of the images/prints. A2 is probably the largest I'd ever go so it really does the job. Plus it's saving my knee a bit on those long hikes. Happy to subscribe to your channel and view some of your other videos.

Excellent video Steve

Seven people with full frame cameras with fingers in their ears...

😐....But but Tony said M4/3 is dead 😟

Couldn’t agree more with not needing loads of mega pixels. I used to shoot with an out the ark Olympus E-1 and printed A3 easily. I,ve recently purchased an E-M5 and this video has reassured me I made the right choice.

great lesson !!

So true, my Oly em5 is still making great prints. And so is my 30 year old Olympus OM2. New tools are nice but if the old tools still work why be a gadget hopper ?

Steve Great video, finally somebody comes out an says it. I have printed large photos from point an shoots people would swear it was a dslr. Thanks again, love to see the m43 at work. My shots www.staffordfuhs.com have wildlife from point an shoots an 4/3 gear dating back to 2007. Much thanks, Jay

you motivated me to keep my EM5

Fascinated to watch this. I've owned a wide range of 16mp M43 cameras over the years, and have used them professionally without any qualms. I even shot a few weddings using an EM5 mk1 and a Sony A7. At album size, the clients couldn't tell the difference!

For me the actual size of sensor is irrelevant. Image quality, camera size, lens sizes, weight, portability, battery life, compatibility, price, reliability, ease of use, etc. are too many factors that cannot be reduced to sensor size. I bet that smaller sensors, thus portability, will be the future. The technology advances quickly, hardware and software.

Close up of the largest print did not look especially good to me....

Very informative, interesting and entertaining. Thank you! Your video shows also the fact, that the photographer takes pictures and not the camera. By the way, a very nice result and a very nice scenery to take pictures.

Brilliant video Steve.

12 people can’t make prints with their full frame bodies

FX better still. Size matters.

Excellent... really enjoyed that.

Really nice video Steve. Keep up your work. Best regards.