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 p.3 #12 · Should I Replace My 1Dxll and 5Ds w/The R5? | |
clough wrote:
And I hate to say it for those who just recently ponied up for the expensive r5, but the even more expensive r3 with eye control (not just eye tracking) will take the "you and your model don't have to wait" experience to a new level. The r3 is going to have a good number of photographers asking themselves just how important that 45 mpix is vs. the superior eye control focusing of the r3 and its 24 mpix.
You'll believe it when you see it, so to speak. Pick up the camera, look, half press, and fire. This is going to open up so many more creative opportunities. Example: You look and shoot a model. Immediately thereafter, you look at what's behind the model, half press, and grab that, creating a creative shot in which the foreground model is now slightly out of focus. All of this happens in 2 seconds.
Once the r3 is on the scene, you're going to hate the idea of moving those infernal focus points around with your fingers or a joystick. Pick up the camera, look, half press, fire. Taking way that step of moving a focus point sounds small, but it's going to feel huge because it allows you to use the camera as an extension of your eye, freeing you up to focus almost entirely on composition and creativity....Show more →
But, but, but...
Then there will be the R1! And then it will be time for an updated R5! And Sony will come out with something new! And Nikon! And...
New technology is usually. a good thing, but maybe not quite a life-changing great as we hope. (If it really were that great... we'd be able to keep using it for more than three years without needing to buy another replacement, right?)
With few exceptions, those with good, functional cameras who imagine that The Next New Thing is going to Change Their Lives Forever would not be making a mistake if they went just a bit slower on this stuff. In the great majority of cases, it isn't like your current gear is _really_ holding you back that much, nor is the new stuff likely to change your life as radically as the marketing suggests.
Is there a time to upgrade? Certainly! When your old gear is actually getting long in the tooth, really starts to hold you back in significant ways, or is becoming unreliable it is time. Or, I guess, if you just like buying new stuff for the thrill of acquisition. Or if you are making so much money from your photography that you can afford to play with all the newest things.
Am I going to move to a newer Canon mirrorless system? At some point, almost certainly. The newer systems are better than the old ones, and when it is time to move on to something new, I will do so. But is my current gear actually holding me back? Not really.
One final thing. I usually not a proponent of brand switching. However, with new mirrorless cameras bringing whole new systems of lenses and other accessories along for the ride and the prospect (for many folks) that buying the camera will lead to replacing a whole bunch of lenses... it is a good time to think more carefully and more broadly about what we are committing ourselves to when we get that mirrorless camera. Back when the EF lenses continued to work without adapters on that new DSLR, the upgrade costs involved the camera, perhaps some batteries, maybe some new tripod brackets. But now that purchase brings the potential for replacing an entire fleet of lenses, too. Proceed carefully and thoughtfully!
YMMV.
Dan
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