Trying to Choose New Camera and Lenses: Sony NEX vs Olympus OM-D
Started Jan 24, 2013 | Questions thread Senior MemberPosts:
4,837 Could you explain? In reply to blue_skies, Jan 25, 2013
blue_skies wrote:  Yes, Sony's are cheaper and have the edge for
low light performance.  You make a lot of broad statments
without supporting facts.  Let's examine the one above.  For
lowlight, you want mutiple things.  1) according to DxO the NEX
cameras and the E-M5 are virtually equal at higher ISOs.  2) For
low light you want larger aperture lenses.  Since for exposure
F-stops are the same on m43, APSC and FF, an F/1.4 lens would
perform better on M43 than an F/1.8 lens on APSC.  3) IS is
important.  Sony offers a few lenses with IS, but not all (no
optione for older legacy lenses either).  Olympus offers 5 axis
IBIS which work better than in-lens IS (in-lens can't detect
rotation nor adjust for it) which works on any lens.  So, I
would say 1 is a tie, 2 goes to the E-M5, and 3 is close with a
slight edge for the E-M5.