+1
I think camera and lens selection should never be a popularity contest but selecting the right tool for the job. Or the right tool which is best for your major style ....snip
I don’t read a lot of these new camera discussions/introductions, mainly because I think we all know in the electronic world with new products we are all unsupervised beta testers.
I guess that’s why in a two month period we see new firmware updates and have more user comments.
Even on cameras that are the same model/brand/date, there is a difference. I think I’ve owned about 2 of every 1d, 1ds, 1dx series of Canons from the start and many times the same model will have different tendencies in iso and even white balance settings.
Usually slight, but still different.
Now, I am pretty much brand agnostic and own a lot of different brands for different reasons and though I applaud Sony for pushing the market upstream in the 4 Sony’s I’ve used and owned, I’ve never had the best luck with them. (not a knock on Sony, just my experience).
One thing I find interesting is nearly all of these discussions turn into model/brand comparisons. I guess I’m doing the same thing because even though prior to buying a a7s mark II, I looked at sample files and they were clean to very high iso.
Maybe it’s my version, but I can’t see it and even at 800 iso it gets ragged, in fact just a quick street test in London using practical lights at night, I could see very little if any difference between the Sony and the little 4/3 olympus em-5 mark I at 800 iso set to stills. That surprised me given the difference in sensor dimensions.
What does surprise me is the limitations makers put upon themselves. Obviously they are targeting a market and want to protect their up market products, but some things are perplexing and in Canon’s case they seem to artificially limit their cameras though their pricing is high next to the competition. I don’t expect them to sell an Arri quality camera with Leica level lenses for a few thousand, but just averaging it Canon is about 20 to 30% higher than Sony and some other brands.
Everyone talks about mirrorless, especially on this forum, mostly Sony, but in a way nearly all cameras function as mirrorless when using live-view for stills and motion.
Canon’s 1dxII to their d80 in motion will autofocus like crazy and shoots beautiful skin tones even with leds which sometimes cast with different cameras. Why they don’t offer a clip on evf like olympus offers, would give these cameras combination optical viewfinder and /mirrorless workability and not being an engineer it doesn’t seem to be that difficult.
I think there is a lot that goes on behind the scenes between manufacturers than we know. Nikon is a good example. They have no line of expensive cameras - combo still/motion, or video cameras to protect and could rock it out with a camera that offered dual pixel autofocus, real xlr inputs, etc. It seems like Nikon gets the previous round of sensors about the time Sony announces new ones, but that’s just a guess, though I wonder what the Nikon/Sony contract is.
IMO
BC