gdanmitchell
Offline
• • • • • • •
Upload & Sell: Off
|
Sharona wrote:
So, it's a dreary, yet cozy fall Sunday morning, so what better time to ponder a new camera. Any thoughts are welcome as long as things are kept civil. So here are this mornings brain meanderings: I have an XT-3 and an X100V. I haven't done much shooting, but as I grow older I can see how image stabilization is going to be important. I probably should have sold my XT3 and kept my XH-1, but here I am. We use an XH-2s at work.
My thinking is that if I get one more camera for life, do I want to look into full frame? Will Fuji ever do something full frame or it is just crop and GFX? I really like the ecosystem and lenses so I'm not really looking to change brands, but open to it. The Sony stuff is more expensive and I've heard negative things about colors and such. The Canon stuff would be more familiar to me as I still have my 5D3 (so theoretically if I really felt the need for full frame I have that. But it's so big compared to the Fuji stuff.)
That new Nikon F-something looked cool, but no joystick is a non-starter for me. Also, I've never shot Nikon so I know nothing about the lenses or anything else.
I'm actually pondering selling the XT-3 and getting an XS-20! What would I be missing outside of the PSAM interface? I think I can live with that, although I hate how they do the ISO button (and the screen). I like everything about the XT-5 but I just don't really want that 40 megapixel sensor. 26 is enough for me. I did rent it. I think I'll rent the XH-20 and see how I get on with it. If the XT-3 had IBIS I'd be set.
OK -ask away or share your wisdom. This is what happens when I exceed my self-imposed caffeine limit. ...Show more →
Lots to think about there, so I’ll only take on bits and pieces.
I do not think that Fujifilm will ever make a FF camera, nor do I think it would make sense for them. Grabbing a sufficiently large percentage of a market with three major players who already have dedicated owners (Sony, Canon, Nikon) would be a tall order. I can’t see how they could do it. They would have to offer something that the other three cannot offer (as Sony did when it broke into the market with high quality FF mirrorless bodies that were compatible with Canon lenses)… and I can’t imagine what that would be these days. The other systems are all very good, so being very good at the same price would not do it. I suppose that they could try to do it with a retro control camera, but I’m not counting on it.
I think Fujifilm’s strategy, or at least a part of it, is the “zig where the others zag” approach rather than a head-on competition for the same market space. That worked really well for the APS-C cameras with “retro” controls, and it also works with the nearly unique (at least at the price point) miniMF systems, which are like nothing offered by the Big Three.
So if you go full-frame, it isn’t likely that it will ever be with Fujifilm. I think it will continue to be APS-C and miniMF only.
Have you used the XT5? It is really a fine camera for still photography. It is relatively small but doesn’t lack much at all for still photography, and the higher MP sensor moves it closer to the performance of FF — though APS-C will never equal FF at a given technology level. But you can have a pretty small system with excellent features and good IQ.
As to the other FF systems, I’m a little out of touch since I decided to hang on to my Canon 5DsR through Canon’s mirrorless transition. Obviously, it is not that I am not comfortable with mirrorless cameras. It is that the 5DsR still works beautifully for what I do with it, and because a move to their newer mirrorless system would almost certainly entail upgrading many or all lenses to the new RF range. (Yes, I know there are adapters. I might use them for some less-used lenses, but not for my main lenses.) What this means is that I’m in wait-and-see mode.
AS to the brand “colors” thing, I think people make a lot more out of that then necessary or appropriate. People get great colors out Nikon, Canon, and Sony. I think it is more about finding the right post-processing workflow with settings that are ideal for your desired output. That’s my way of saying that any of the three FF brands that have the stuff you want will be fine.
The costs for a FF system will generally be higher, at least for cameras with the same or comparable feature sets.
Would that make a difference to your photography? Only you can figure that one out.
|
