Ultimately, I think what matters is having a good understanding of what the tools you’re using are capable of so, you can tackle the job at hand properly.

And I’ll be honest, I went through a “shoot everything wide open” period too, but I think it’s part of the journey to sometime obsess over optical tricks until you understand when it’s appropriate to use them.

Thanks for taking the time to write a long comment, I appreciate :)

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Ah, yes. Sensor equivalency. So, let me indulge in a bit of that. The M.Zuiko 45mm is the equivalent of a 90mm lens on a 35mm camera. Wide open at f/1.8, that 45mm lens gives a depth of field equivalent to f3.6 on that 90mm. In short, on your 35mm camera you would have purchased a 90mm f/3.5, which back in the day would have been an affordable lens to purchase. And there’s nothing wrong with that. The reason it looks like I’m multiplying values by 2 is because the diagonal length of a micro four thirds sensor is 1/2 that of a 24mm by 36mm “full frame” sensor.

Unfortunately the majority of today’s camera users obsess over maximum apertures, maximum sensor sizes, and maximum pixel counts. And it’s all tribal, a zero-sum game with them. It’s always about the numbers, never about the use of the equipment in the service of art. And I don’t mean high-brow Art, I mean work-a-day art of day-to-day living. All those moments special to you, whatever they happen to be.

As far as Marketing is concerned, as far as they’re concerned they’ll say or do just about anything to get the next sale. The great irony is to call 35mm sized sensors Full Frame, when for nearly the entirety of the 20th century 35mm was considered miniature format compared to larger film formats, such as medium (6mm x 6mm, 6mm x 7mm) or even larger film formats, such as 4×5 inch or even 8×10 inch.

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I think Marketing people, whether it’s for M43 or for APSC, brought a lot of confusion in the debate of sensor equivalence. And looking at forums like dpreview, I believe it’s still the case today.

Now that I have a better grasp on photo technicalities, I agree with you, there aren’t any bad cameras anymore. But it took me a while to get to that conclusion :)

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Thank you. Shooting many photos and then self-curating to find the best is normal.

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