Re: How much do the mirrorless systems threaten Canon and Nikon DSLRs?
Gochugogi wrote:
With all that said, I can\'t imagine any of these ILC seriously competing with FF or APS-C for sports, landscape, fashion, studio, commercial products, etc. First of all, they\'re too small to balance big glass and have tiny awkward controls. Nevertheless they have carved out a new niche somewhere between point \'n shoot and rangefinders, perfect for intimate moments and snaps. I can\'t imagine using my GX1 to shoot landscapes, travel, products or concerts with (save for emergencies). However I did install a RRS L plate on my GX1, partly to make it easier to hang onto. Damn it is a tiny tiny camera...
Don\'t speak to quickly about the supposed problems with these cameras until you have used one.
1. They cannot do the same things with image quality that full frame DSLRs can do, but the APS-C models perform as well as APS-C DSLRs in many, though not all, ways. The 4/3 models do better than I would have anticipated.
2. They are not going to be ideal for typical sports shooting, nor for things like birds in flight and similar, mainly because the AF systems don\'t work like those on DSLRs, though for some other reasons, too.
3. I\'ve never bought the \"can\'t use a big lens on a small body\" mantra.
4. If you are the sort of shooter who might use an APS-C body for certain types of tripod-based work, especially if you use liver view, they can work just as well as the DRLR for a number of subjects.
5. The \"tiny, awkward controls\" are not really the way you describe them - at least not on my X-E1.
6. For street and travel photography, these cameras can be better than a DSLR in many ways.
7. The image quality, at least from my X-E1 with the Fujinon lenses surprised me by how good it is.
I\'m not saying that one type of camera is \"better\" than the other, though both can be very good and each has both strengths and weaknesses by comparison to the other.
Dan
May 27, 2013 at 12:51 AM
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