Just get a Sony and use it for a month. You'll learn it and get used to it and adjust what you need to where you need.
Yes...the A7s2 used prices are pretty low. And the lens is actually well priced as well...so I'm kinda thinking about it.
Oh yeah, not at all for now, the lenses are so nice, it's more 1 to 2 years down the line.
I don't recommend the S2. You either get an R2 or an A7III to be honest if you don't want to spend on an RIII. That MP count with contrast detect AF is a no no.
After heavily using the XT3 for a while, I'll give it two knocks. The battery life is pretty bad, but it's easy enough to carry two batteries. And I was surprised, I shot 500 burst shots at the Chromatics concert, camera had no issues and battery was good. I think if you don't chimp it performs very well.
Yeah I definitely wanna see their body tech first, I have hopes but yeah, track record is very bad. But they need to fight to stay up, so, hope they do well.
Yeah I think realistically the A7r3 used, as I do wanna see what that high MP count brings to the table. It's just that A7s series is low light focused. But the r3 is more than fine for my use case.
A7S series is low light video focused. I would not use that as an event photography camera at all, not to mention slower AF. On top of the price tag for that thing while being outclassed by the A7III and R2 at all things not tied to super duper high iso. It's pretty much a non starter camera for me. Pay that much for second gen body ergonomics? Fuck no.
Yeah as far as I'm concerned the A7SII is not worth the money. I still can't believe I still see people buying them. I've been killing my A7RII doing all of these graduation shoots and the video looks great on it I'm glad I didn't try to buy an SII because I'd probably hate it.
There is fun to the dials, but you don't always want to do a second action to get to your next shutter speed range. Sometimes all you have time for is to speedily thumb scroll till you get to your desired exposure. I don't hate the Fuji method but at the same time it's an extra step and no I'm not going to do the dial less method.
Trust me when I say I don't use either of the two things you're talking about. I pretty like to keep my ISO at a certain level and then control either the shutter speed or the aperture depending what what look I'm going for. I don't use either aperture or shutter priority or even auto ISO that much.
There is nothing about Fuji dials that make them faster to use than the standard exposure triangle wheels on DSLR-style bodies, including the modern MILCs. In fact, Fuji is far slower at making these adjustments, especially in the dark when you have to pull the cam away from your face.
Is that what the cool kids are calling ancient technology these days?
Oh no, it's not faster.
Add to the fact that you can't even navigate the menus when the files are writing to the card...SONY!!!!
It's so easy to nudge, though. I can't count the number of times I've accidentally taken a series at ISO 50 because I scooted it off AUTO on accident and didn't notice for a few shots.
Just as easy as the Fuji lens aperture rings IMO ;-P
It's a burden being right all the time. 600/f4 for $14,000. Olympics lens indeed.
The 16-80/4 and 33/1 are the last 2 on the roadmap. Not sure what other types of lenses they would even want to make, unless they came out with some MkII versions of the 23/1.4 and 56/1.2
I give absolutely zero shits about the 16-80F4. New 23 1.4 and 56 1.2 would be good though just so they can make something with faster and more accurate AF. The AF on the 56 is fucking dodgy. I either had the AF box too big or the thing just kept focusing on her hair, but on my last shoot it missed way too many shots unless it's just soft until you stop down to F2. I think my biggest problem is that I probably just have everything I could use for the most part outside of "Do I really need this?" lenses like the 80mm and the 16 1.4. Whatever sensor they move to needs to be a clear step up from what they currently have because the X-T3 literally just seems like the X-T2 with quicker AF and more AF points. It's a great camera yes, but I really feel like I should've waited on it.
Sometimes I just feel like I want too much. I love the system and still want to use it, but I'm not really given anything to look forward to these days. New body at some point yes, but not lenses.
My hope is that they will have managed to retain the incredible reciprocity characteristics. No exposure compensation until 120 seconds and then only half a stop more exposure until 1000 seconds is awsome for pinhole and long exposure photography.Looks like Fuji is releasing some Acros stock with reworked chemistry. Would be curious to shoot this and compare to Ilford, if I ever get my Canonete fixed.
Speaking of 120, do you think Ektar 100 is a decent stock to start out with?
Ektar 100 is very nice modern, high resolution film. There's a couple caveats: some say that scans are difficult to colour correct in post and it has a tendency to render skin as pink. The skin colour issue can be mitigated by post processing the scans. Kodak datasheet rates the film exposure tolerance at two stops over and one stop under, but it is possible to get usable shots at two stops under. It will most likely deal just fine with more overexposure than the official rating of two stops too.
Thank you very much! I'll give it a go once I replace the focusing screen and get the mirrorbox cleaned up.
I'm honestly waiting for the X-H1 to like super crater and I'll trade my X-T2 in for it I think. Then again I still need to buy a second Sony body, so I guess that can potentially wait still.
