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12-02-2014, 10:09 PM   #286
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oh, you mean the thread where you didn't know that the lea4 had pdaf?
Please produce a quote of me saying that, Osv ... I would very much like to see it.

In the 'Why I'm Staying With Pentax' thread I mentioned all the Sonys that lacked PDAF, like your A7R, and you responded with saying we could buy some crap adapter that worked with old Alpha and Minolta lenses!

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from your link:

"Leica's (and other manufacturers') wide-angle rangefinder lenses (those with a focal length shorter than approximately 35mm) tend to have a quite short exit-pupil-to-imaging-plane distance."

who cares about wide rangefinder lenses? you certainly aren't going to be using 'em on your k-3.
Because the Sony E-mount also has a short flange distance - 18mm.

It's exactly the same problem.

Like the rangefinder lenses, the Sony wide angles can do without the heavy retrofocal elements designed in a DSLR wide angle, but the cost is light falling at angles that don't hit the pixel sensor wells and are lost - not a problem in film, but in digital, that's detail and light gone,


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"Restructuring and lay-offs have also returned Imaging Products and Solutions, as well as Home Entertainment and Sound, to profitability despite low revenue growth -
Can you read your own Sony PDF?

IPS revenue in the time of the E-mount cameras has fallen from 756 billion yen in 2012 to 710 billion in 2014, and by their own projections will drop to perhaps 650 billion by 2017.

And remember what this document is - propaganda for nervous shareholders. Check out the standard disclaimers on the last page.

There is no camera led recovery in the wake of smashings in the TV, phone and computer units - bleeding from many orifices.

The division has been able to keep its head above the water by sacking employees and the very low yen during all this time.

Again, Osv, aren't you better off at SonyAlphaRumors than Pentax bashing here?

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which affected *all* camera manufacturers, not just sony.

whatever tweaked math that you think that you are pointing at sony applies to all of 'em, and is therefore irrelevant.
1) This is not tweaked math this is what happened to them... They managed to be positive out of luck with foreign exchange rate. Still they go 2% decrease in sale for the division holding the cameras activity.

2) We didn't speak of other manufacturers net income here, but for example I just checked Canon. They sale increased by 3.1% to 1,448.9 billions yens for their "IMAGING SYSTEM BUSINESS UNIT" . Compared to Sony that had 2% decrease for sure Canon managed to do far better. Still they are far less invested in mirorless products than Sony.

I don't get what you try to achieve here? Some sony product are quite good, some other not. Sony is not that much of cash machine anymore and it has been for yeasr and overall, not just the camera sales but for most of their business. It is likely they don't even really try to have a good net income in the end but try to sell more products to gain market share. It did goes that well until know, but at least they tried.

The market is difficult to everybody and apparently Sony while not maybe in the worst position overall is far from being the company that got the best results here. That just how it is. I don't know why you think they should... Like you know the product you choosed as to be the best from the best company that of course will to take all over the world.

Who care? I mean apparently you own Pentax glass and this company hasn't been that fashionnable for many years now. It doesn't mean its products are bad or nobody should buy theses. I have no issue with that neither and I don't try to convince everybody that next year everybody will finally wake up and decide to all buy Pentax bodies and limited lenses because it was my own choice. I don't need to get the approval of the world to choose my camera or to justify my choices as being the smartest by explaining that in the future everybody will finally understand and make the sames choices as I did early as an early adopter.
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I don't know, T-stop is more something they care of in video where apparently the key aspect is to have enough light... On photos, it seems we care more of the apperture than the T-stop because we are more after the creativity than the ultimate low light performance.
My understanding is that video needs the T-stop value so that they can expose consistently. I can adjust exposure easily on a single frame, and in the same conditions one lens or another can be adjusted to match post, but for video I imagine it isn't trivial. If you have two video cameras with different lenses shooting the same scene, you need to match the exposure on both. F-stop is a mathematical ratio. T-stop is the actual light that gets through the lens.

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With regard to short registration distances, i hadn't realized that Fujifilm XF, Sony e-mount and even micro4/3 registration distances are not that far apart. Since there are an unlimited number of registration distances, all the about 18mm registration distances must have been chosen for a reason - i assume because it minimizes lens dimensions.
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1) This is not tweaked math this is what happened to them... They managed to be positive out of luck with foreign exchange rate. Still they go 2% decrease in sale for the division holding the cameras activity.
Exchange rates don't discriminate. If the one Japanese company lucks out on it, then the other ones does the same.


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2) We didn't speak of other manufacturers net income here, but for example I just checked Canon. They sale increased by 3.1% to 1,448.9 billions yens for their "IMAGING SYSTEM BUSINESS UNIT" . Compared to Sony that had 2% decrease for sure Canon managed to do far better. Still they are far less invested in mirorless products than Sony.

I don't get what you try to achieve here? Some sony product are quite good, some other not. Sony is not that much of cash machine anymore and it has been for yeasr and overall, not just the camera sales but for most of their business. It is likely they don't even really try to have a good net income in the end but try to sell more products to gain market share. It did goes that well until know, but at least they tried.

The market is difficult to everybody and apparently Sony while not maybe in the worst position overall is far from being the company that got the best results here. That just how it is. I don't know why you think they should... Like you know the product you choosed as to be the best from the best company that of course will to take all over the world.

Ontopic, the new mirrorless line is what's saving Sony's behind.
Reuters:
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Fitch revises Sony from negative to stable.
Reuters Japan:
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Sony revised upwards the camera sales plan for 2014. While Canon and Nikon digital camera sales are falling Sony reported a growth. While for Sony there is a decrease in numbers of sold camera the earnings are increasing. Mainly because Sony is selling much less non profitable fixed lens budget compacts but it’s gaining shares in the profitable interchangeable camera market.
And what I discovered from the latest Sony release presentation:

About the mirrorless market:
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- The mirrorless system camera market is growing everywhere (although very slowly in US).
– Half of the system cameras sold in Japan and Korea are mirrorless (see blue bars on the image on top)
– In Germany the share now is 29%

And what's even more interesting:
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Half of the A7/r/s camera owners never owned a Sony camera before that camera
Sony is doing something that's making people jump ship. Leaving their trusted gear.

This is only going to increase. It's not suddenly going to be really cool again by the end of next year to be buying grandpa-DSLRs. It'll be 20 or 30 years before DSLRs are old and forgotten enough to become 'retro' and get rediscovered again.
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With regard to short registration distances, i hadn't realized that Fujifilm XF, Sony e-mount and even micro4/3 registration distances are not that far apart.
Phil, note that in designing lenses for Panasonic and Olympus you haven't got the same extent of problem because the m4/3 sensor covers less area than that of Fuji and Sony.

But there are still plenty of corrections done. Lens profiles are built into the m43 lenses for the camera's firmware to act on.

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With regard to short registration distances, i hadn't realized that Fujifilm XF, Sony e-mount and even micro4/3 registration distances are not that far apart. Since there are an unlimited number of registration distances, all the about 18mm registration distances must have been chosen for a reason - i assume because it minimizes lens dimensions.
Beware that all theses mount are APSC only except for Sony E that is now extended to support FF through FE mount.

The registration distance we have on most APSC DSLR was made with FF in mind where the registration distance was an interresting compromize in the end. It is easy to design small lenses from 35 to 70mm. And even lenses of 100 or 135mm can be quite small (see DFA100 macro for an example).

On APSC, it seems logical to apply the crop factor to the registration distance if you design a dedicated mount or maybe even a bit shorter. That good for Fuji or Sony Nex.

Sony decided to keep the Nex E mount for it latest FF FE lenses. For me it was more a practical design to allow to use natively FE lenses on E mount and to keep the body quite small. The obvious implication is that tele lenses are bigger and that to really benefit of shorter registration distance wide angle lenses have light rays at bigger angle that the digital sensor have trouble to catch, especially for wide appertures.

FE mount to me look a little like K-mount to APSC. There no proof obviously and Sony will deny it, saying it was made for the begining to be perfect for FF... But it was made with APSC and small body size first. FF support was secondary in the design.
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With regard to short registration distances, i hadn't realized that Fujifilm XF, Sony e-mount and even micro4/3 registration distances are not that far apart. Since there are an unlimited number of registration distances, all the about 18mm registration distances must have been chosen for a reason - i assume because it minimizes lens dimensions.
I don't know a whole lot about lens design, but my understanding is that it is possible to create the smallest lenses for a given registration distance when they are close to their focal length is close to that registration distance. So, for Pentax, the smallest lenses will be around 40mm. For FE Mount, 20mm should be pretty small.

When it comes to significantly longer lenses and zooms, the size difference will not be significant and will be dependent a lot more on the speed of the lens, the materials use (plastic versus metal, etc), and how well corrected the lens is. Sony is relying more on these factors to try to create smaller lenses, but their zooms really aren't that small, when you factor in how fast their apertures are.
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Like the rangefinder lenses, the Sony wide angles can do without the heavy retrofocal elements designed in a DSLR wide angle, but the cost is light falling at angles that don't hit the pixel sensor wells and are lost - not a problem in film, but in digital, that's detail and light gone,
Again... new sensor tech. Samsung already has it, Sony will too. Samsung's latest sensor is able to capture that light that hits the sensor at angles. Not as good as film, I suppose, but the angles that are possible get wider and wider.


Canon could put a Canon badge on a pile of horse shit and sell it.


Consistent exposure seems much more important in video than in stills. If 2 stills don't match exactly... who cares. But in video, they are cut one after another, so differences are much more noticeable.


The OVF does look more natural, but it has less in common with what the camera will actually record. It's tricking you. With a good EVF what you see is what you get. That makes things easier, IMHO (though some might want the challenge of an OVF of course).
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Mirrorless nothing short of a revolution, a wonder of the 21st century. Make no mistake they are sleeker, they have faster, more accurate AF, fewer moving parts and most importantly they smaller than ancient DSLRs...



..oh, nevermind.
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Mirrorless nothing short of a revolution, a wonder of the 21st century. Make no mistake they are sleeker, they have faster, more accurate AF, fewer moving parts and most importantly they smaller than ancient DSLRs...



..oh, nevermind.
Nice hahaha, shows well where Mirrorless fails, though I love them for smaller primes.
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Mirrorless nothing short of a revolution, a wonder of the 21st century. Make no mistake they are sleeker, they have faster, more accurate AF, fewer moving parts and most importantly they smaller than ancient DSLRs...


..oh, nevermind.
Should there be picture in there?

Edit: Nevermind, I discovered the link in your post and looked it up in your album. I have no idea why it doesn't show the picture when I view the forum.

Now, when I imagine a big fat DSLR in place of that mirrorless camera, the contraption still doesn't make much sense. Secondly, you can't slim down a DSLR when needed, but you can upsize a tiny mirrorless when needed though. Think of the battery grip in case of the A7 series. Or think of old fashioned brackets with stylish wooden grips. (Not that I would ever do that, but you get the point.)

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Should there be picture in there?

Edit: Nevermind, I discovered the link and looked it up in your album.

Now, when I imagine a big fat DSLR in place of that mirrorless camera, the contraption still doesn't make much sense. Secondly, you can't slim down a DSLR when needed, but you can upsize a tiny mirrorless when needed. Think of the battery grip in case of the A7 series. Or think of old fashioned brackets with stylish wooden grips.
If you plan on shooting f2.8 zooms, then the A7 series is probably not your best bet. The lens will be the biggest part of the package at that point and pretty unwieldy on such a camera.

It does seem like if you want small and portable, having a four thirds size sensor helps, as the lenses are more reasonable in size as compared to the camera body.
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so tell us, dear clackers... if mirrorless mount designs are so bad, how come the a6000 demolishes the k-3 in actual testing?

the bare sensor comparisons between those two cameras are nearly equal...

the fa50 costs nearly $100 more than the sony e50mm lens?
I'm always a little dubious about the overall scoring that DxO publishes. Case in point: in their smartphone testing, the overall score given to the iPhone 6 is way better than the Nokia Lumia 1020, even though the Lumia 1020 has a way bigger sensor, 41MP and OIS.

Also, keep in mind that you're comparing a lens designed in the 1980s to one designed in the 2010s. Lens technology and coatings have progressed considerably since then.
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