Originally posted by Serkevan I admit that I haven't tried the 5.76 MDot EVFs, but I did try the 3.69 MDot ones and those were unacceptably bad - for me at least. The high refresh rate, high resolution EVFs will inevitably come with extra battery drain however, no? A DSLR will generally always be a better hiking camera, IMO.
The 3.69 milion dots cameras have 60fps refresh rate, most of them. That's why A9 II is better with 120fps refresh rate at same 3.69 milion dots EVF than the others. And that's why the eye strain and headaches are more frecvent on photographers using cameras like A6500, A7 II, A7 III, EOS R/RP, etc. and that's why this problem is still present on forums and internet.
Having sensitive eyes, I was one of the ones hating EVFs from early cameras but I practice on them 10-15 minutes and I continued to practice on each new mirrorless I put my hands on until I got comfortable with them. Someone who tries for the first time a 5.76 milion dots EVF with 120 fps refresh rate won't see much difference compared to an OVF, especially if he disable the informations in the EVF so that the EVF will display the same informations as a DSLR.
Panasonic is a good example because if you hide the brand from the body it looks like a DSLR and by the time you realize it's a mirrorless you will have taken a few hundreds images.
As for hiking, I don't know what to say...
Each time I go out hiking with friends I'm looking for birds/animals while they are shooting landscapes, usually from tripods, with LCDs flipped so that they can have a larger display to look at. I don't see any advantage for either camera here.
Originally posted by Serkevan Interesting... I was speaking about the German used market, where I've found some K-1s (like my own!) nicely under 1000€ and mostly around 1100-1200€. In comparison, when we were shopping for my girlfriend's replacement camera some months earlier (her 5D1 croaked because apparently I fried it
)... a 5D3 was prohibitively expensive at the moment (above 1000€ for decent condition ones), so we settled for a 6D for under 600€.
Yes, we all speak from each perspective until someone comes and say as a general rule that Canon or Nikon or Sony is more expensive than Pentax. For new cameras this tend to be true, at least in the countries I visited during the last 5-7 years. For second hand market it seems that is different from country to country.
Being so many used cameras from Nikon, Canon and Sony in the market, the prices go down quite a lot these days, at least in Romania.