Originally posted by gatorguy I'm very happy in the Pentax ecosystem, but may still get the latest Fuji, X-T30, for it's size and weight and fast autofocus,pair it with a Fuji 50-230 for $200 and I'm thinking good for wildlife action... In for about $1100 total and carry it along with my Pentax gear rather than instead of.
But In general I've not seen what the big brouhoo over mirrorless is. For the most part it's much more expensive, loses the autofocus advantage (and granted eye-tracking on Fuji and Sony looks impressive) if you stray outside their own limited series of relatively expensive branded lenses, and to be honest those photogs I personally know who have gone mirrorless are not producing better pics than they did with their previous DSLR's despite the belief they are. Just spending a whole lot more on the lenses they need to do what they were already doing.
Who requires all those convoluted menu options anyway, even as a "convenience"? IMHO there's more to be gained by learning to work better with what you already have, fine-tuning shooting technique, instead of fine-tuning menu's on an entirely new system that requires modifying your shooting style to adapt to limitations and advantages on the new one that in essence accomplishes no more than the same "light and shadow" controlled by ISO, aperture, shutter speed that all our cameras offer. I think some buyers believe buying a $2000 camera and hanging a $2000 lens on the front of it turns them into a professional turning out better images than we dinosaurs can because "MIRRORLESS".
Now if someone like LeRolls, whose portraiture I highly admire, sees where mirrorless can improve his craft in certain shooting situations (and he does) that's understandable. He knows WHY it's advantageous for him, using the right tool for the right job. For most of us mirrorless instead of DSLR will not automatically make our captures better, or turn bad technique into good images. If we don't already get the ins-and-outs of what makes a compelling picture and understand how to get there then where's the rationale to dump our current gear to go mirrorless? I'm not seeing it.
My .02 anyway
First, I can shoot with any camera and make it work as I want.
Second, I don't intend to change my DSLR any time soon because I'm more than satisfied with how my camera performs. That's why I bought it after I tested it long enough.
Third, I do like this new Canon mirrorless because:
- it's cheap and in 4-6 months it will be cheaper
- it has a full frame sensor (many say that APS-C sensors are good enough and I tend to agree more or less with this statement)
- I already have lenses that will work with this camera via adapter
- it is light (485g)
- it has focus staking which can be handy
- it has eye af and this is one nice feature that I like on mirrorless given the fact that I shoot (among other things) portraits with models
- I don't need to buy the equivalent new lenses that I now have for DSLR and because of this, if I will buy in the future a pro mirrorless body, the transition will be easier because if one of my lenses will fail due to age and intense usage, I will replace it one by one with mirrorless lenses. My lenses worked very well on EOS R (the first mirrorless from Canon) when I tested that camera so I won't be in a hurry to replace my lenses.
Forth, not a single client of mine couldn't tell wich image looks better when I showed them 3 sets of 6 images taken with different cameras from different brands. As long as the clients were happy with the images taken with A7III, D850, 5D Mark IV, D610 (the cameras that I've shot with for that test), I really don't care about which camera has better image quality in the eyes of the photographers that like to pixel peep images but they show their images on social media or they print their images at normal sizes.
What I do care about when comes to gear is:
- how good it feels in my hands
- how customizable are the buttons and the menu in order to operate the camera fast in challenging situations
- how strong is the system in terms of lenses and accesories
That being said, I don't mind if in 5-7 years my gear will be smaller and lighter by slowly moving to mirrorless. The 70-200mm f2.8 lens for mirrorless is half the size of the same lens for DSLR (at least this are the reports from the people that saw the lens at the press event). This new Canon mirrorless is 90g lighter than Olympus E-M1 Mark II.
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Originally posted by biz-engineer The 70-200 looks small in comparison to the 85 f1.2 because the 85 1.2 is enormous.
The people who saw the lens at the press event said that is half the size of the 70-200mm f2.8 for DSLR. The Canon 70-200mm f2.8L IS lens (the one for DSLR) is smaller and lighter than Pentax 70-200mm f2.8. You still think that this mirrorless 70-200mm f2.8 is a big lens?