In the wake of more and more dig­i­tal adap­ta­tion in pho­tog­ra­phy, some cam­era man­u­fac­tur­ers joint forces and devel­oped the so called ‘Real-Full-Frame-Digital-System’. The rea­son? To com­pete with the win­ning com­pa­nies, Canon & Nikon who lead the charts in world­wide accep­tances of their ‘cropped’ APS-C/APS-H dig­i­tal for­mat before ‘full-frame’ really came to the mar­ket. Here’s their story about the Four Thirds and (did I men­tion they also came up with) MICRO Four Thirds?

I didn’t buy it then, I still don’t buy it now, and I will never buy it no mat­ter how hard they argue. Here’s why:

© Steve Huff

First, you have that beau­ti­fully ren­dered machine against a blurry back­ground, that clears your eye off any dis­trac­tion or dis­turb­ing objects. On the right, you see the same machine with dis­turb­ing lines and dis­trac­tions on the back­ground that your eyes see and from the mem­ory that you reg­is­ter ear­lier, you still can iden­tify the same object but with extra infor­ma­tion that your brain needs to process, that dis­trac­tion is what degrades the aes­thetic qual­ity of any pic­ture, the qual­ity that any­one with a cam­era should achieve and main­tain with the high­est standard.

More details & com­par­i­son pho­tos after the jump. (Thanks, Steve!)