> at a point where lens quality really matters if you want to be able to use the pixel density.

And this can only become a bigger issue since resolution increases while sensor size shrinks or stays the same. It is an old truism that you should care more about the quality of your lenses than your camera body, and that hasn't really changed.

> you should care more about the quality of your lenses than your camera body

The only problem is low light. My 600D takes fine photos in sunlight or with a flash, but otherwise the sensor noise is awful.

That's why you get lenses with wider apertures. They also generally have the advantage of focusing faster and having better subject separation.

Wider aperture means bigger lens, especially zoom. This can be a negative for the non-professional who wants to minimize size/weight when travelling or just walking around town, especially if they already have a smaller, mirrorless body. Professionals, obviously, will use whatever size equipment they need to get the job done.

All the more reason to move to primes ;).

Seriously though, the comment about focusing on lenses instead of bodies is spot-on. Photography is the art of manipulating light, be that via off-camera flash, better lenses or picking the right time of day.

Getting a fancier camera body only lets you pick up the electrons that are already there, you'll see much larger improvements in your photo quality if you focus on the other things first.

In my experience, wider aperture often means slower focusing. The focus motor has to move a much larger piece of glass and focus with an even narrower depth of field.

That's usually the opposite case, wider apertures mean more light which gives the AF system more to work with. The AF speed of my 135L drops significantly if I put a 1.4x teleconverter on it despite needing to move the same amount of glass.

Most wide-aperture lenses have larger AF motors to compensate with the exception of a few unique lenses that use a gear instead of servo motor(USM in canon parlance).

That only works when you want subject separation though.

Fuji is in there as well, they have several mirrorless models and their optics are top-notch.

Yep. Fujifilm have a long history of excellent lenses. I believe they used to make lenses for Hasselblad.

-They make lenses for the H system (oh, and XPan - in that case, I believe they made the camera, too). The V system (what pops into most people’s minds when ‘Hasselblad’ is mentioned) was largely supplied with Carl Zeiss lenses.