Portable, daily oldschool style camera advice

[Lynchie999]

Sony A7 (secondhand if you have a budget) + Metabones so you can use all your Canon glass...

why APS-C specifically ?

[djsmith74]

Second hand Olympus OMD EM5 Mk1? With the Mk2 recently released, the Mk1 can be picked up for decent money on the 2nd hand market. I bought mine when it first came out and it's still going strong with about 30k+ shots I've put through it. Very good image quality up to ISO6400, cracking range of lenses (I have a 17mm (34mm in real money) prime on mine most of the time, which makes it nice and compact), weather sealing (I've shot in heavy rain without issue), 5-axis image stabilisation that's almost witchcraft, 1080 video capture, etc.

• EDIT* Just realised you specifically want APS-C.....

[Lynchie999]

KimJongHealthy said:

Lynchie999 said:

Sony A7 (secondhand if you have a budget) + Metabones so you can use all your Canon glass...

why APS-C specifically ?

I'd say quality and DOF for portraits, I looked at few micro 4/3 on dpreview and quality drops dramatically with higher ISOs.

A7 mark 1 might be a good idea but metabones adapters cost over £200 while native Sony lenses seem expensive. Plus it doesn't really solve the bulk problem, body isn't much smaller than DSLR and carrying 24-105 on my shoulder all day is the reason I don't use it much..

Go for one of the A6XXX cameras then... the APSC lenses will also be cheaper, theres some good ones to be had... the A7 mk1 at least is quite a fair bit smaller than a DSLR...

[GSalt]

Fuji X-E2, lovely camera with excellent image quality. Put the 27mm on the front and it will slip into a jacket pocket. I've absolute confidence in the ability of mine to get a result all the way to ISO6400, and generally leave the ISO in Auto(200-6400) almost all of the time. Mine's my daily carry, and rides along with the Sigma DP Merrills on most planned trips.

You're right that Fuji's weakness is video, but the Zenit was no great shakes in that department either.