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p.11 #4 · p.11 #4 · Article posted on Dpreview re: Canons lack of innovation | |
Holger wrote:
The nice thing is abount the Sony FF mirrroless, you can use smaller lenses, too, if you like, you don't need to go with f2.8 zooms or f1.4 lenses.
Take the 28/2, 35/2.8, 55/1.8, 85/1.8 or the f4 zooms (like the new 12-24f4). You can use many small manual focus lenses (some with excellent quality, like the Loxia 21mm/f2.8, or good compromises like the Voigtländer lenses). Having the larger sensor still lets your 35/2.8 perform like what you get on MFT with a 17mm/1.4 lens in terms of AOF, DOF and S/N ratio, for example. What you won't get is something similar to a Oly 300/f4. A 600mm lens with f8 (for similar DOF and S/N ratio) will probably not be made by Sony. If you are happy with less DOF control, mft provides the smaller package. But using mft with larger aperture lenses to reduce DOF and your weight and size will grow to similar values....Show more →
So true, it's also a reason I am hoping a camera company will release a FF mirrorless. I have gotten used to having to work a little to throw the background out of focus. Not only with very fast glass but also to chose a location where I get more background separation from the beginning.
You can use slower F2.8 lenses rather then the faster 1.4 lenses as long as those 2.8 lenses are still good (many of them are). What does bother me with some of the slower glass for many systems though is they are never built like the "pro" glass. Take Olympus PRO series for example, they are all built like tanks, weather sealed, metal, high end and quality through and through. Even though you may find something slower and still with good image quality in a FF brand, those lenses are rarely weather sealed and when they are, they are still built like "crap" compared to the high end offerings in m43.
This is why one can never really compare lenses to lenses either.
But yes, all in all one can get a small system with a FF mirrorless body.
And yes, I did say I am waiting for a camera company to make an FF mirrorless. No, Sony is not a camera company although they create beautiful sensors but I haven't been able to get along with their Sony A7's. Compare the A7's with an Olympus, Nikon or Canon and you know that those companies have a far longer history in ergonomics. Sony releases a lot of beta products (that have gotten a lot better). They also failed to release lenses for the first few years, which has also gotten a lot better but it also proves that they don't quite understand what makes a camera system.
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