Greet you,
I'm looking for a camera for product photography or food photography.
I have the Panasonic g81 and the Alpha 6100 in view.
What I absolutely need would be Live View, so that I can follow the action live on the laptop.
I personally would prefer the Sony (I have the A6000 myself). For product photography, however, a lens that is suitable for macro photography is more crucial. On the Eos R (full frame) I also like to use a 50mm lens for product photos
I would advise you to go to Sony. First, the Panasonics do not have the very best autofocus and second, a sensor that is a good deal smaller than the APS-C sensor in the Pana.
A smaller sensor either fits fewer sensor pixels - or if the same resolution is on it, the pixels must be smaller.
This in turn means that they then capture less light and the camera is noisy even at low ISO values. Both are the case with the G81 vs A6100, the G81 has only 16 megapixels and the sensor pixels have a diameter of 3.77 micrometers while the pixels of the A6100 have a size of 3.92 µm.
The A6100 is both better in poor lighting conditions and also has a lot more resolution (24 megapixels), which also allows you to simply crop out image areas from a photo and still have enough resolution left.
And throw in a third alternative: Canon EOS M50. For the cheaper lenses there are for the Alpha. A good camera, especially for studio photography, because there are a lot of accessories that are compatible with Canon.
Hi
do you do product photography or product video?
Functional Wi-Fi would make sense with a lot of bandwidth and little lag for metering on a monitor or tablet, Lumix is a bit ahead of Sony, but it also depends on the end device or the network configuration. It's best to try this yourself, preferably before buying.
For food, shift, tilt / shift or rotators are usually used as lenses. Of course, such optics have no auto-focus. For mFT and Sony NEX there are Shift and T / S adapters for "old glass optics". With APS-C that still makes sense with mFT, waste glass usually has too little residual resolution, but you can use magnification optics, for example. For example, the 22 Agfa Color Magnolar has enough resolution for mFT sensors and about 50mm usable image circle for shifting. The optics are useful for pack shots. Unfortunately, the optics are rare and meanwhile an expensive Euyrgon or Rogonar in 35mm has become too expensive for many things and can only use a 30mm image circle as a shift area.
The Lumix has the easier way to focus stacking, which is an advantage for product photography, the ergonomics / usability topic is better for Lumix and there are more macro optics in the system. MFT is for macro work in the sweet spot of sensor size.
When it comes to resolution, on the sensor side at ISO 100, the low light capability of the a6100 is roughly the same, but I would rather recommend a used GX8 or new GX80 instead of a G80. In the studio you could also use a GX800 / 880, which is tiny and super light. Also cheap
