Yesterday I rebought one of my all time favourite lenses; the Zeiss 50/1.4 Planar. But the only camera I can use it on is the D700 which I hate. So the RX100 will continue to be my mate for the bicycle rides until someone finally makes something smallish to put the Planar onto.
Martin, what on earth? A gravestone graveyard?? I am enjoying seeing what you do with your RX-100. I was impressed that after all of the agonizing about what to buy you purchased one. In part because of that, I slipped over the edge and did the same. It just arrived and I am struggling along with manual in one hand and camera in the other. I think that it will be a good "pocket partner" for my E-M5's.
mortyb wrote:
Number 3 is great. Nice ride! I got my first 29er in 2009 - now I have three. No going back.
Yeah I bought my very first serious bike shortly after moving to Albuquerque, a 29 Giant Talon. Good bike plus biking heaven = goodness. Seriously considering the RX100 as a bike camera, as it would fit in my pocket easily.
Thanks! Yeah, the RX100 is surprisingly good, but not very fun to use. I really long for something that fits my purposes, but I guess the fun will greater the longer I have to wait for it.
The D700 is not only heavy and large; I find it very difficult to focus manually. Especially with lenses like the Planar that gives a good amount of focus shift.
29" wheels on the bike is fantastic on the trails. Don't need much suspension and rolling resistance is low.
That's odd, I've found the D700 to be the easiest to manually focus of all the cameras I've owned (love those left/right indicators). But maybe I've just owned a bad lot.
Makten wrote:
The D700 is not only heavy and large; I find it very difficult to focus manually. Especially with lenses like the Planar that gives a good amount of focus shift.
I find it interesting that many people in Nikon forum would say D3/D4 size and weight are just right, D700 being bare minimium (and I'm a minority there) but people here in Alt forum like small cameras.
Back to the D700 focusing... I think focus shift applies too all cameras, unless you use stop down focusing? Anyway, I think D700 manual focusing is ok (I have the DK-17M) but I got better keeper rate with D600.
ytwong wrote:
I find it interesting that many people in Nikon forum would say D3/D4 size and weight are just right, D700 being bare minimium (and I'm a minority there) but people here in Alt forum like small cameras.
Back to the D700 focusing... I think focus shift applies too all cameras, unless you use stop down focusing? Anyway, I think D700 manual focusing is ok (I have the DK-17M) but I got better keeper rate with D600.
Weight totally depends what your shooting , lens on the camera etc. A D3 feels much better when using a big telephoto than a smaller camera as it balances out and gives better grip. Same goes for when using a speedlight, fast zoom like 24-70 f2.8. Sure a bigger camera is heavier overall, but having a large built in grip just makes it handle better than a tiny camera. Nothing gives me a hand cramp worse than trying to shoot a wedding with a small camera with speedlight on it because the thing just wants to torque out of my hand all day and I'm trying to hold it with just 2 fingers. ouch.
On the other hand, nothing is worse than carrying a big DSLR around on vacation all day because the darn thing feels like a total brick by the end of the day, especially when your not really even taking that many photos. I've carrying 20-30lbs of gear around, in taxi's, restaurants, shopping etc and it just is a huge PITA.
DSLR's are for doing work, compact cameras are for shooting on trips etc for me now but everyone is different in what works for them. See plenty walking around sight seeing with DSLR's still.
Regarding focus shift, yes it can be an issue with all cameras if you focus wide open, but with most live view cam's or DSLR's you can also stop the lens down and focus at your given aperture which helps, but really is it a lens issue, not a camera issue. Design of the lens can cause a focal shift.
9 out of 10 pictures shot at wide apertures seem to be closeups, which is why people don't have problems focusing their cameras. I don't do closeups, and trying to focus accurately at ~5 meters with the Planar is just plain impossible with the viewfinder. I have the DK-17M (which makes it MORE difficult to focus at the edges due to poorer optical quality) and a Canon EG-S screen, but it doesn't help. Focus shift is due to the spherical aberration of the lens and with live view that's not a problem. So any "dumb" mirrorless camera would be a dream to use with the Planar, compared to the D700. Unfortunately they are all APS-C.
Regarding the weight. Why carry 1.2 kilo when you only use functions that could easily fit in a 0.5 kilo camera?
CalW wrote:
Makten wrote:
So any "dumb" mirrorless camera would be a dream to use with the Planar, compared to the D700. Unfortunately they are all APS-C.
deadwolfbones wrote:
Could you buy the lens in A-mount and use it with the A99?
I picked up a RX100 as a travel camera for a recent Paris / Italy trip.
I visited Firenze (Florence) when it had its gelato festival. Double hand held shot. One advantage of a small camera: carry your camera in one hand and eat gelato with the other.
Kell wrote:
hmmm, love my D700 and RX100, as a matter of fact the Sony might be the 'funnest' camera I've ever owned...ton of picture effects in the shooting mode
What the heck does "picture effects" have to do with using experience? Personally I nevery use anything except raw.
Personally I nevery use anything except raw.