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 p.1 #12 · Debating switching from Sony to Canon | |
A general comment on the idea of switching brands...
You have invested in a system — camera and lenses — that is highly regarded and which can produce excellent results. Lot of people use the brand you currently use to produce excellent photography, including of the subjects you are shooting and in similar/same circumstances.
The thrill of gear acquisition is seductive, and the words of people thrilled with their new gear can seem compelling. Slick marketing campaigns are effective. And, in fact, each new system introduction brings new pluses that may surpass to some degree those that you found so attractive in the system that you now own.
But each advance from Company A will soon be countered by Company B and Company C (and others). While A may momentarily pull ahead, B will soon do something to make it seem better again. And C is waiting in the wings to trump A and B, after which A will again respond and may seem to pull ahead again.
In the end, this really doesn't matter much at all, at least not to your choices of equipment. The best and smartest thing to do is to almost always to stick with the brand you have, focusing instead on your picture making skills.
I don't write this in support of any particular brand. I say the same thing to Canon, Nikon, Sony and other users considering the radical "switch."' There are, no doubt, a few situations in which a switch will make a difference (one company may produce a specific lens that the other doesn't and you photography is depenent on it?)... but usually this isn't the case.
Dan
AlaskanNiz wrote:
Hey guys! I'm a bit of a lurker here who's been debating a decision for a while. I have been shooting on an a7iii for about a year and am somewhat invested, I have three lenses, zoom trinity and all were purchased used so I'm not terribly invested. I'm debating moving to the r5 or r6. I do really like mirrorless or else I would be thinking about a 5dm3.
My reasons for switching include ergonomics, robustness, customer support, and colors. I have large hands and I've been shooting in Alaska sometimes at 40 below and when my hands go wooden from cold I have been gripping my camera at times and I've hit the lens release and almost spun off a lens, zooming. Granted I've gotten better at holding my camera so as not to do that but it's another thing to think about when I'd like to focus more on, you know, the shooting part. Also holding the camera sucks with my large hands and the distance between mount and grip with all of my lenses... I've shot on Canon's before and loved the grip and ergonomics. The next thing is robustness. I'm a rock climber, currently taking some time off due to injury, and I want to shoot more of an adventure style of photography, I also shoot landscape, wildlife, and action. I also just finished shooting a winter season in Northern Alaska and the Sony has performed very well, admittedly in the cold. The "adventure photography" scene is dominated by Canon although I have met a few people shooting on Sony's... I can't even count the number of battered, chipped, and beaten Canon bodies that I've seen people still taking amazing images on. I guess I'm wondering just how robust the r5 and r6 are compared to Sony's? This also kind of leads me into the next point with Canon's customer service... It seems, anecdotally, that you have much more luck with them than you'll ever have with Sony. Which as someone who plans to dangle from ropes and shoot as well as spend all my time with my gear in the elements I would see that as being a clear point for Canon. And then colors I suppose I can get over but man I just have a tough time in Lightroom getting an image to look how I want it and then get skin tones to look how I want them, friends on Canon seemingly have much less trouble.
Also in this vein I was wondering how people like the Fv mode on the r5 and r6? I like using Auto Iso minimum shutter speed on sony's especially in the cold for making sure i get the shot with as minimal jacking around as possible and haven't minded the camera picking an iso for me and although their doesn't seem to be an as easily accessed, equivalent feature on the Canon's the Fv mode seems like a very viable option if you set the flexible variables to Av and Tv and then had the camera adjust ISO based off Exposure Comp? Just want to make sure I'm understanding this right.
Anyway, anyone who wants to weigh in, I appreciate it. Just thinking for what I want, Canon may be for me.
Cheers!...Show more →
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