>>4456872>got a school photography jobWhat kind of job?
>our assigned cameras are micro four thirds (some lumix body and pic rel.)What kind of job?
>is there any reason for that choice from a business standpoint other than cheaper price?Sometimes, yes.
Usually, no.
For example micro four thirds sensors are much higher resolution than full frame. Might be around the equivalent for 10,000 PPI sensors vs 5,000 PPI sensors, so effectively double the effective resolution. The problem is they're crop sensors. You have a higher pixel density on a smaller sensor and in most cases this is bad. For things like macro at 1:1 scale, however, four turds can actually excel for photographing tiny (and I mean TINY) things that are physically smaller than a 35mm sensor.
So instead of needing a 2:1 macro lens to get ~10,000 PPI, you only need a 1:1 macro to get the same on four turds.
The moment you want to photograph something larger than 36x24mm that advantage disappears and you just run into inferior sensor quality issues (noise,etc).
If you were giving a bunch of retards loander cameras to play around with to learn macro, four turds is the way to go. Anyone really interested will then know if they want to upgrade to the 2:1 or 5x macro optics and carry larger kit for higher IQ. Most probably won't.
