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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands 03-03-2017, 04:44 PM  
X-Trans vs Bayer Sensors
Posted By ChristianRock
Replies: 5
Views: 2,590
Well Fuji couldn't have been lying to us about the performance of their cameras, could they? :lol: After their insistence in using different ISO standards, I just can't trust them...
Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands 09-23-2016, 06:06 AM  
Is the A-mount dead/end of the SLT
Posted By Winder
Replies: 132
Views: 8,564
Mirrorless cameras need a lot more processing power and bigger batteries. The A99II has more processing power, bigger batteries, handles heat better and balances better the "professional" F/2.8 zooms. For people using primes mirrorless is great, but the size advantage vanishes with big fast glass. Sony needs to continue to improve its A-mount glass with SSM so that it works with the new AF system. Hopefully some of the technology from the GM line will makes its way over to A-mount.
Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands 09-23-2016, 03:27 AM  
Impressive new specs of canon mirrorless camera leak - eos m5
Posted By Ratcheteer
Replies: 49
Views: 5,850
not really surprising to me, fuji has been making lenses for hasselbad for years and the hasselbad xpan is manfactured by fujifilm, with the increase in tethered shooting the mirror was slowly becoming obsolete to the actual shooters that use these systems as the typical SLR viewfinder would be to hard to see in some situations.
Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands 09-19-2016, 12:44 PM  
Impressive new specs of canon mirrorless camera leak - eos m5
Posted By northcoastgreg
Replies: 49
Views: 5,850
The primary reason for a grip is not for right hand shooting but for better handling. For many photographers, it's just easier, when shooting with a heavy lens, to have a camera with a large grip. When I was doing volunteer photography for the local zoo, I found I was having trouble holding my DA* 300 and Tamy 70-200 steady enough to get tack sharp shots with the K-5. The grip was just too small, especially when shooting in portrait orientation. This had absolutely nothing to do with one-handed shooting, as you can't really shoot one handed with lenses weighing two and a half pounds and not get shake blur in any case. Adding an extra grip solved the problem, and now I occasionally see my photos on bus adds when driving around town.

If you like shooting large lenses on very small camera bodies, that option will always be available, especially for those willing to use adapters; so I'm not sure why anyone considers that an issue. My only point was that if Canon wants to take over the mirrorless market, it might not be such a bad idea to make some high quality small glass for those of us who find that smaller glass handles better on small cameras but who also want to use the very best lenses.



Probably so. But perhaps another issue is that they're listening to the wrong customers. Canon's and Nikon's high end equipment seems geared most toward the needs of professional event photographers. The problem is that professional photographers make up only a very small fraction of even the high-end market; which means the needs of non-professional, non-event photographers are often given short shrift. Mirrorless cameras have helped open things up a little bit by offering the option for much smaller cameras (especially when compared to the big FF pro cams). But they clearly haven't gone far enough. Like Canon and Nikon, the mirrorless brands still seem to believe that their very best lenses must be their fast aperture lenses, even though those of us who are landscape/travel/architecture photographers don't need f2.8 zooms, but might like a zoom lens that's just as good at f8-f11.

I suspect part of the problem is that mirrorless companies are still operating from what is largely a DSLR mindset. In the DSLR world, the best zooms tend to be the big f2.8 monsters. So all the mirrorless companies (except Leica) believe that their best zoom lenses must be f2.8 as well, even though it makes less sense on mirrorless where smaller size and weight are your best selling points. So if you want to shoot with the very best standard zoom lenses from Olympus, Fuji, or Sony, you have to choose the f2.8 option. What about those of us who are landscape or travel photographers and don't need the f2.8 but would like the very best quality?
Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands 08-27-2016, 12:33 PM  
Is the A-mount dead/end of the SLT
Posted By Winder
Replies: 132
Views: 8,564
Yes, but Sony A-mount users are already accepting of the EVF so the transition is very simple. The A99 already uses the EVF. Take the mirror out of the A99 and nobody would know.

Ricoh would do well with a mirrorless K-mount based on the LX design.
Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands 09-14-2016, 09:36 AM  
Impressive new specs of canon mirrorless camera leak - eos m5
Posted By Fogel70
Replies: 49
Views: 5,850
Electronic stabilization usually works by moving a crop in captured images, so it only works for video.
Electronic Image Stabilization | InvenSense

But the leaked specs also mention blur correction, so it might have built in software to remove blur from captured images.
Maybe something like this. SmartDeblur - Fix Blurry, Defocused or Shake Cam Photos

But it could be that I'm lost in translation. ;)
Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands 08-28-2016, 12:10 AM  
Is the A-mount dead/end of the SLT
Posted By Nicolas06
Replies: 132
Views: 8,564
I am always curious how you do include some PDAF sensor on the sensor itself... Supposedly better but then, doesn't it introduce small holes in the sensor dedicated to that? Also are the PDAF sensor bundled here as efficiant as the dedicated one (low light, speed, efficiancy) ?
Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands 08-21-2016, 07:14 AM  
Is the A-mount dead/end of the SLT
Posted By Winder
Replies: 132
Views: 8,564
Adapters have come a long way, but they never seem to preform quite as good as native glass. Sony needs to sell more glass since that is where the money is. The A99II needs to be a body that generates more demand for A-mount glass just as the A7 series did for FF mirrorless glass.

There are a lot of advantages to the A99 AF system and I would like to see it refined an improved. The lenses need to be optimized for the system which Sony has been slowly doing. Sony's mirrorless technology is great, but its still not as fast or as capable as the technology we have in DSLRs. The question is will DSLR manufacturers be able to implement the advantages that mirrorless cameras do have before mirrorless cameras can catch up to DSLRs in terms of speed and performance. The A99 is the closest we have to blending the two technologies, and with enough processing power and batter power it can be the best of both worlds. I don't have any issue with using a good EVF and sometime I like the added control and information I get from an EVF.
Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion 08-13-2016, 07:35 AM  
Why third party lens companies are running away?
Posted By wildman
Replies: 124
Views: 10,715
Back in the day, when I was an apprentice at the Chicago Tribune, when rangefinders were dominant, even a lens like most ordinary modern kit lens' would have been considered some kind of optical miracle - good contrast. resistance to flair, AF, close focus, sharp enough for most practical purposes, a single lens with a FL from 30-100mm etc etc. I have no doubt in my mind that the best Togs at the Trib would have thrown away their Summicron's and Nikkors for a modern kit lens in a heartbeat if they would work on their M3's or S2's.

Sure glass matters but most any modern glass from a reputable company will get the job done optically. The rest is up to the photographer.
Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II 06-21-2016, 04:06 PM  
The superiority of FF over APS-c re: Depth of Field
Posted By rawr
Replies: 230
Views: 21,471
Straight to personalizing the issue. Nice.

I use cameras with 5 different sensor sizes (phone, superzoom, RX-100, APS-C, FF). Heaven knows how you would choose to judge me, if you use the sensor a person shoots with to decide the kind of person they are.
Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II 06-21-2016, 03:42 PM  
The superiority of FF over APS-c re: Depth of Field
Posted By monochrome
Replies: 230
Views: 21,471
@Qwntm That bit about having it because I want to have it and it fits my lenses better - that's the only thing that matters.

Academic discussion of objective benefit is one thing. Posters would be kind, however, to stop telling K-1 owners we have more camera than we need or can use. We have more car and house and clothes and computing power and media units and bedrooms and beer and food and medical care and choices in everything than we need or can use, too. Do you think in a better world less would be more?

Some of us are getting a mite peeved at being told what we should have and use and do and think about lots of things.
Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II 07-08-2016, 05:10 AM  
Been banned from DPReview
Posted By k5astro
Replies: 133
Views: 17,756
My guess is you offended them by accusing them of being dishonest.
Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II 07-08-2016, 04:32 AM  
Been banned from DPReview
Posted By starbase218
Replies: 133
Views: 17,756
The correct answer is: I don't know and I don't care until I've heard their side of the story too so that I can form my own opinion about it.

There was one person in the comments saying this:


To which Rishi responded:
Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands 06-29-2016, 05:07 AM  
Hasselblad to announce a FF mirrorless camera
Posted By Mistral75
Replies: 122
Views: 11,338
FF is so yesteryear...

(Mirrorless) MF is the future :p.
Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion 07-01-2016, 03:15 PM  
What would I loose if I switched from Pentax DSLR (K10D) to mirrorless?
Posted By Nicolas06
Replies: 133
Views: 11,916
Yeah everybody take what is best for him (or what he think his best). And we don't have all the same needs.

I started Pentax a bit out randomly, because the K5 got really nice reviews, price was right, low light perf was nice. So I got it with 17-70. I am still with Pentax but mostly primes now. Ltds essentially. I often just go out with DA15ltd, DA35ltd, FA77. I upgraded to K3 because K5 off center point AF were not good enough to do shallow dof with AF.

I checked mirrorless alternatives, and in my case, I don't feel I would get anything more. The DA15 would have no field curvature and be f/2 and the FA77 would be 2-3 time heavier and much longer. The overall package would be around the same size. The price, no better. The FA77 is the lens that get the most use, so the performance and size/weight of the equivalent lens with same framing is key. The only smaller tele with similar reach I know for APSC or better and that is as small or smaller is the DA70. All the other brand have huge things.

So for me, even through I check it on a regular basis, I didn"t find something that please me. I am afraid m4/3 is a bit limited for quality, Fuji not smaller. Sony FF more expensive and significantly bigger. So I stay with what I have, and hope Pentax will decide to make a WA/UWA that is not too big and also has no field curvature. I would also be interrested by a K02 with an EVF and AF as good (but not necessarily better) as K3... To get something that is 500g instead of 800g. It doesn't exist, so I keep the K3.
Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion 06-08-2016, 01:54 PM  
What would I loose if I switched from Pentax DSLR (K10D) to mirrorless?
Posted By osv
Replies: 133
Views: 11,916
what he posted was long on hyperbole, and short on facts.

for example, this claim he made is totally wrong: "mirrorless lenses test sharper than DSLR lens - Fuji's are sharper than Sony e-mounts and e-mounts are a little sharper than dslr lens... But the bottom line is that Sony IQ while nice is nowhere near the quality of Pentax IMO."

saying that "Fuji's are sharper than Sony e-mounts" is not logical, because m4/3 lenses are mounted on tiny weak low-rez sensors, they can't score as high as aps-c sensors in an mtf test... you'll get better pq with a k3 than any fuji camera.

when you talk mirrorless, there is no such thing as his "dslr lens", because just about all lenses that have proprietary dslr mounts can be used on a sony mirrorless camera.

etc...
Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands 06-22-2016, 08:17 AM  
Hasselblad to announce a FF mirrorless camera
Posted By D1N0
Replies: 122
Views: 11,338
The K-1 isn't much bigger (from the front :p)
Compare camera dimensions side by side
Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands 06-22-2016, 05:02 AM  
Hasselblad to announce a FF mirrorless camera
Posted By MarkJerling
Replies: 122
Views: 11,338
I've merged the two threads that talk about the same upcoming camera, a non-Pentax camera. Sorry if that's caused confusion.
Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands 06-22-2016, 02:25 AM  
Hasselblad to announce a FF mirrorless camera
Posted By Thomasbrowphoto
Replies: 122
Views: 11,338
I agree, this is something to definitely be interested in. Especially about the option to adapt nearly any lens that covers the sensor. It has two things I wish the Z had, a EVF, and 4k video. Interesting times.
Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands 06-22-2016, 01:04 AM  
Hasselblad to announce a FF mirrorless camera
Posted By 2351HD
Replies: 122
Views: 11,338
I am considering jumping to Hasselblad if this model has the goods.

Pentax making a MF mirrorless, pffft, yeah right. Their product development is sooo slow, they haven't even filled the lens line for the 645z system yet, let alone make lenses for mirrorless.

I love my Z but whatever fits I say, and no mirror and EVF, I'll take that, yes please sir!

---------- Post added 06-22-16 at 06:05 PM ----------



I disagree, this is definitely the place to be discussing a competing MF system at a similar price.
Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion 05-31-2016, 07:26 AM  
What would I loose if I switched from Pentax DSLR (K10D) to mirrorless?
Posted By luftfluss
Replies: 133
Views: 11,916
Just because folks "love the light weight and small size" of m4/3 does not mean they need to take advantage of those attributes all the time. Kinda like users here who profess a love for the Limited lenses but use other lenses, too.
Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion 02-28-2016, 08:12 PM  
How many APSC shooters will truly upgrade to K1
Posted By Dr_who
Replies: 347
Views: 33,816
I'll upgrade when I can afford to. I'll still be keeping the K3 as any glass I have or will get in the future will still work on it. The K3 also has faster fps and the crop factor will be great for the extra reach. Why upgrade then? I use the GPS astrotracer and the idea of not forgetting one extra piece that requires a different type of battery is great. Also the wireless trigger I use sits on the hot shoe which means I can't use GPS or astro tracer as easily when using the trigger. Freeing up the hot shoe is an added bonus.

The telescope is often in odd positions when doing some images and the articulating screen is another added bonus. I've wanted one for certain aspects for macro ect. Also looking forward to getting the wider field with certain lenses for milk way shots.

All that said again I'll be keeping the k3. There is no camera or lens that does every thing.
Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands 05-20-2016, 02:56 PM  
Grim Nikon Financials
Posted By RobA_Oz
Replies: 48
Views: 4,738
Having done some work in China several years ago, dealing with quality management in manufacturing, I know it's possible for this to be an issue. My take from that experience is that you can't expect a work culture to take root quickly in a place where it hasn't existed before. However, you'd expect all the major Japanese camera-makers to be similarly affected, given that they all do some manufacturing work outside Japan. Perhaps Nikon was just unlucky in picking the sites they have.

The other thing that's puzzled me for some time, is how Nikon and Canon treat their professional support activities, namely whether they are regarded as business units in their own right, and are therefore expected to return a profit, or whether they are regarded as a marketing expense. Perhaps a mix of the two is the answer, but all that hardware exposure and carrying expensive lenses and bodies for major event photography (and there are very many of those events) must come at a substantial cost.
Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands 05-16-2016, 08:11 AM  
DSLR vs. Mirrorless
Posted By Sliver-Surfer
Replies: 139
Views: 11,042
I still use my K5... it's alot better now that it has a Canon EE-S screen in it. But it is my niche camera. I only use it when I shoot Extreme Bug Macros.

Here are some examples of my A7 images








Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands 05-15-2016, 11:12 PM  
DSLR vs. Mirrorless
Posted By Sliver-Surfer
Replies: 139
Views: 11,042
I could afford a K1 but it's not mirrorless, I have zero buyers remorse.
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