A new camera...

[Jaded]

I have a selection of micro four thirds primes. Tiny, they are.

When there is a prime on your camera you take more care taking photos.

[perpetual dan]

I have a couple of chunky wide aperture lenses for my Fuji. And a couple of much smaller ones for being a tourist. And a couple of all-manual, for the joy of it lenses that are middle sized. No zooms yet.

[T42]

I have a selection of micro four thirds primes. Tiny, they are.

When there is a prime on your camera you take more care taking photos.

Great for swift street pics, though, especially if it's a bit on the wide side.

[Woofage]

I have a selection of micro four thirds primes. Tiny, they are.

When there is a prime on your camera you take more care taking photos.

You mean like this:

PXL_20230810_100822938 by pencyclist, on Flickr

Nikon D7100 on left (with an old 28-105mm macro zoom), Panasonic Lumix GX880 on right (with Olympus 17mm prime).

[FifeingEejit]

Is that an actual 7mm focal length or 35mm equivalent?

[Woofage]

Is that an actual 7mm focal length or 35mm equivalent?

17mm in Mirrorless 4/3, equivalent to 34mm in 35mm.

[sojournermike]

The big difference is depth of field.  If you like the Leica style (shoot everything wide open and feel the bokeh, man), a phone won't cut it.  Some of them do Gaussian blur, but that's like astroturf.  I tried it on my S22 and it is laughably crap, with a sharp bit of background left around the subject.

I am very happy shooting my M4, built in 1967 and am more likely to be found at f8 than some bigger aperture. I think rangefinders work best with relatively small lenses and none of the R1’s are small.