Originally posted by Winder As usual you are missing the point. 14bit RAW files for a 28MP sensor at 15fps represents more processing power than any other camera on the market..... Several times more processing power than a Canon 1DX or Nikon D4s. The point of post is that the camera industry changing rapidly. Nobody cares if you need 15fps or not.
High end smartphone have this kind of power or more (some include 8 cores) and they do take photos. Does it help them take better photos than an old 5D? No. I care that typicall DSLR allow me to take arround 700-1000 shoots in a row without needing to change the batery. I don't give a shit of the theoretical power a camera embbed as long as it does it job correctly and that it doesn't drain battery to much.
Originally posted by Winder Have you ever used a camera?
While apparently we can wonder if I ever used a camera, we can wonder if you ever ask yourself before asking retorics questions.
You can take a look at my flickr stream. I don't pretend to be good, but you can figure out yourself if I'am able to take photos or not... Getting the exposure or focus right or not.
I mean, don't hesitate to explain that I have no clue at what I'am doing and my photo look like shit so you can finish here what you started in your previous post.
Originally posted by Winder What you see with your eyes is what the PDAF sensor sees. That may or may not be what the sensor records when the mirror lifts. With zoom lenses that suffer from focus shift or even prime lenses that suffer from focus shift with close subjects you can't calibrate your lenses to compensate. PDAF with AF adjust doesn't work in these situations.
The OVF can tell you what the meter says. You don't actually see the scene as you are going to record it. Digital doesn't use 18% gray. Modern cameras meter for 12%,or an sRGB brightness of 46%. Have you ever shot a snow covered landscape? I guess not or you would understand why the OVF is not showing you the scene as you see it even if the meter says the scene is properly exposed.
You conclude that a working mirrorless is going to be better than a faulty DSLR. I don't know for you, but I use an accurately working DSLR so I have no issue.
My only concern with exposure is where there too much dynamic range for the sensor and then usually I switch to HDR. I spend some time to process a few thousand photos not long ago from my trip in India and I never had exposure problem.
Originally posted by Winder The lens color cast is not what I'm talking about. The human eye automatically adjusts to balance light temperature (color), but the sensor capturing the image can't do that. What you see through the OVF may or may not be the color/temperature of the light that the senor is recording. With EVF you see the actual effects of WB as you work.
When the camera doesn't get the white balence right, the photo typically look ugly. If I'am using an EVF I don't see how I can adjust white balence in a better way than if I do in post. I can first shoot a card or something as a reference first and adjust with that but EVF will not help a bit here. On a post processing software I can fine tune the white balance while it is less practical in camera. If I'am somewhere shooting a photo what I ask my camera to do is to record the picture accurately. I don't want to spend time post processing while shooting. I prefer to be more in what happen at the moment in the real life. That help to get an interresting shoot. At least I hope so.
Originally posted by Winder There are millions of people who disagree with you and pay big money to companies like VSCO, DxO Film Pack, Alien Skins, Nik Silver Efex.... As camera companies try to appeal to more people they will add more features. The ability to add these you your camera is a natural evolution of the existing filters. You may not want more control in you camera, but many people do. Most professionals use presets in their workflow. As cameras become powerful computers some of that workflow will move to the camera.
I pay big money as you say for DxO and DxO Film pack so I'am very well aware you know. Even if one use preset in its workflow the question to ask is the ergonomics of a camera or the ergonomics of a computer is better to work fast an efficiantly to perform post-processing.
For me I find I can do more, faster with a computer. This is because a computer is typically:
- much more powerfull
- has instant access to many more settings/options
- has a big high quality screen that allow to better preview what you do.
Overall, all the fancy stuff a mirrorless is suposed much better than a DSLR rely on 1 single thing. What already existed for year in back screens in cameras (redevelop raw, change white balence or rendering) suddendly got as practical as with using a computer because you have the option in the view finder instead of the back screen.
While there some truth to it, spending time behind a EVF tweaking the settings just mean you are not aware at all as what happen arround you being practically blind. This is still true if using the backscreen even if you are too concentrated on it... But usually you don't spend that much time doing that... At least that's me... But maybe you typically post process your shoots in the camera or wish you could do... Let say it is a different practice.
We can disagree but I have to thank you overall to explain I don't have a clue of what I'am doing.