Sony RX10 IV Destroys Micro Four Thirds For Wildlife?! (Olympus EM1 III + Best Telephoto Lens)

We have a camera battle! Can the little Sony RX10 IV with its 24-600mm lens outdo a micro four thirds setup? M4/3 has a huge advantage for wildlife video over full frame, that's supposed to be its niche. We got the Olympus EM1 III with the Panasonic 100-300mm f4-5.6 II and the 100-400mm f4-6.3. Who has better stabilization? Image quality and autofocus? Color science and sharpness?

[cory]

Of course the bridge camera would win the bridge test, unfair comparison

[ive]

Eagle duck?? Your grasp of the natural world is unnerving!

[boyanlepoev]

"If only I had a better subject, like a penguin or something" - never change please

[allenthomas]

I've had this Sony RX10 Mark 4 for about 3 years now. And although low light is its challenge I use it more than any other camera because of its extreme flexibility and great lens.

[Ulrich.Bierwisch]

For this kind of long lens, Dual-IS is the way to go. So you take a G9 or GH5 for the Panny-lenses. Olympus has also great long lenses with Dual-IS on the E-M1-III.
Also there is a big difference between IS for stills and IS for video. For video, it is more like a smoothing for a number of seconds over a lot of frames. For stills it's freezing for each frame, center the sensor and freeze for the next frame.
I expect Panny to be better in video, would like to see a test with that. The CIPA-rating is done with stills only.

[DixonLu]

Kasey's wildlife cinematography makes David Attenborough and the BBC quake in their boots.

[salmanul_fares]

Brings two panny lenses, doesn't take G9 for testing. oh the user error

[MrEdxwx]

Epic video, thank you for your work and time.
I had the 100 400 and its sharp at 100, 200, 300 and not sharp at 400, i did not like it, the rx10iv is amazing and its my main zoo camera.

[PhotoReactionVideos]

PURE GOLD as always!!!

You bring joy to our lives…plus mostly useful information.

Thank you for all your efforts in putting this together.

[QawiemJamil]

BBC called - they want you to direct their new Canadian wildlife documentary/ They also want you to replace Sir David Attenborough for all the narration work, including over-dubbing past documentary work.

[HesselFolkertsma]

You can adjust Sony colours, just adjust the AWB or any of the manual settings.

[-grey]

Holy shit that olympus footage looks beautiful. I have to sell all my Fuji gear.

[lavapix]

The 100-400 on either the GH5 or G9 is stable handheld. It's what I use to track UFOs.

[kwchalky]

When you are comparing Panasonic lenses to Sony why didn't you use your G9? The 100-400 is a great lens and works well with the dual stabilization. The manual focus is also good/easy on the G9.

[billr]

"... Nice quality control, Tiffen. [I'll] Tiff your mom!"
I dunno, those 'mom' jokes always crack me up.

[swishpan]

As the Sony is a compact system, the lens and body is more optimised and configured together. Sony always made good optics and stabilization.

[gerardferry]

rx10 must be one of the most fun enjoyable cameras made

[AgentBlackCrow]

Colours on Olympus are out of this world. Sony’s colours are horrible in this example.

[artistjoh]

The Olympus 100-400 is much better than those two Panasonic lenses. The Olympus works with teleconverters. It means getting more than 1:1 macro. It is a brilliant telemacro. I also have the Panny 100-300 but haven’y used it since getting the Oly 100-400.

The RX10 IV really shines with portrait flash. It’s TTL is close to perfect, combined with a leaf shutter means flash sync at all shutter speeds. Works really well. Plus excellent slow motion with a 600mm lens is really useful. The RX10 IV is a very underrated camera. But for macro the Oly EM-1 III with 100-400 plus teleconverter is first choice.

[junzzzzzz]

After having watched more than 20 of your videos in 2 days, that intro has stuck in my head.