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| p.1 #1 · p.1 #1 · Tired of breathless posts about 35mm digital camera system with two lenses? | |
Are you tired of breathless posts in the Alternative Forum about a certain new 35mm digital camera system that is only available with two lenses?
Me too!
Post after post about how this or that expensive range finder lens made forty or fifty years ago is barely usable or usable with post-processing correction or with cropping, These lenses all sell for over $800, some sell for thousands. How many soccer moms and dads are going to go that route? How is this serving photographic progress?
Lots of over-hyped school girl excitement about mount adapters, manual / live-view focusing and stop-down metering in 2013 as if that is the best we can expect from "innovative" camera companies in this age of supercomputer designed and optimized optics and AF assemblies? What about the needs of normal every-joe family & hobby photographer?
I'm here personally because I shoot Sony/Minolta gear and this sub-forum is now like the ghetto for non-Canikon systems. I'm not here because I exclusively shoot with range finder lenses or adapted SLR lenses. Given a choice between an AF equipped model of a lens and the manual focus version, I'd probably choose AF 90% of the time. When I shot manual focus it was mostly because the lenses were fast and cheap and could be adapted (M42 mostly) to my Digital cameras. I also loved the high build quality and the nostalgia of the great lenses and cameras of the fifties, sixties and seventies. I also enjoyed shooting film as well for the same nostalgic reasons.
As I browse this forum less and less, I am put off by the torrent of what looks to me to be AstroTurf marketing (especially those from Australia  ) promoting an unnamed compact full frame camera system that only has two lenses available for it from the manufacturer. Yes, just two lenses for an interchangeable lens system camera: A slow variable aperture 28-70mm zoom lens that is no good for indoor usage and a 35mm f/2.8 wide angle lens that won't provide subject isolation. That definitely covers all our photographic needs and is better than what we've ever had before, right? 
I used to enjoy reading this forum , looking at all the great photos and honest technical discussion but I guess that I now feel bombarded with fairy tale FF CSC posts that seem to be written by the viral marketing department of a major Japanese electronics maker - there is very little focus on the artistry, the practical, the wonderment and magic of photography or how to use what we already have to produce good and lasting images. Instead it is the same message that any gear you have is outdated and you must upgrade your body to FF CSC and spend thousands more on Zeiss/Leica branded gear.
Perhaps I should visit the Canon and Nikon forums more even though I don't have one of those systems. Perhaps I will find more photographers and less measurebaters. Perhaps, my anger at replacing my stolen gear and OVF DSLRs with lackluster SLT/EVF models is adding to my aggravation. I don't know. Perhaps frustration that I can't switch to a more reliable and authentic brand of camera system than what I originally invested in and thus what the insurance will allow for replacement.
All I know is that I no longer care to read sob stories about how your $2500 Leica lenses don't work well on your new A7r or how you're buying the body now and waiting two years (2015) to finally get lenses inferior to or similar to what you already have in the closet collecting dust.
I'm tired of paging through dozens of posts viewing 100% crops of range finder manual lenses I could never afford and which cannot be easily used to quickly capture people - my favorite photographic subject. I'm a guy that buys 3rd party cheap Sigma lenses for G-d's sake! I don't care if a fast lens is sharp across the frame wide-open. I want very fast moderately sharp prime lenses for portraits and indoor low-light use and an affordable super zoom for when I travel or go to the zoo. Is that too much to ask for from a new camera system?
I want to capture lots of good and memorable indoor portraits of my newborn son and family as they grow. I want to have accurate & fast focusing, metering and flash control too. I want to capture the occasional landscape or architectural shot with an ultra-wide angle lens and once in a while I'd like the ability to hook up a 500mm AF lens and take pictures of wildlife if I want.
These are basic photography needs that have not changed for decades and for which this new FF CSC is currently woefully inadequate to meeting despite all the preceding claims of photographic revolution.
If you must torment us with your FF CSC promoting posts at least post some good pictures taken with it that you'd be proud to display if shot with a traditional DSLR! I'm tired of magenta tinged test shots! .
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Archive 2013 · Tired of breathless posts about 35mm digital camera system with two lenses?
