ggreene wrote: Pixel Perfect wrote:
The 1DXII sensor should have been enough to sway any Canonite on the fence about leaving. I suspect the number of Canonites fleeing for Sony will slow to a trickle now and if the dual raw gets software support for the extra DR, even better news.
I was never convinced the number was much more then a trickle to begin with. As an owner of a 1DX2 I don\'t find the low ISO DR to be the all encompassing critical spec that many on the forums obsess about. Pushing skin tones will show you that right away.
On one hand, I personally know some folks who switched — some very serious landscape photographers with actual reputations in the photography world. I\'m thinking of three in particular, and there were others. They liked the DR and the small size and low noise. Given who they are (at least some of them) I was surprised, and I have to take them very seriously. (Unlike some, however, they spend their time making photographs rather than proselytizing.)
On the other hand, on a recent 5-week stint of overseas travel I decided to keep a sort of informal eye out for who was using what in the way of cameras. Mostly I saw a ton of people using smart phones. I saw a lot of Canon and Nikon DSLRs. They ranged from a ton of Rebel style bodies up through 5D-series cameras — a fair number of which were (a bit to my surprise, since they seem heavy for travel) equipped with large, red-ring zooms. I saw a few — more than I expected – small point and shoot cameras. I saw a small number of mirrorless cameras. (That\'s what I was shooting.) Although they were probably there I did not see a single Sony A7r or A7rII.
The Sony cameras are good cameras and they offer some very compelling features to a number of photographers and some good photographers have gone that route and do great work with the gear. But, despite what we might hear in camera forums, they are not exactly \"blowing out of the water\" the existing mix of cameras.
(For my own part, I almost always do travel with small mirrorless system. It isn\'t Sony but it could be. And I do believe that someday — a time we have not yet reached — there is a very, very good chance that improved mirrorless systems will increasingly supplant DSLRs.)
The whole DR thing, while real, has been absurdly overblown. I said that when Canon was \"behind\" and I\'ll continue to say it if Canon ends up 2 stops \"ahead.\"
ggreene wrote: Pixel Perfect wrote:
The 1DXII sensor should have been enough to sway any Canonite on the fence about leaving. I suspect the number of Canonites fleeing for Sony will slow to a trickle now and if the dual raw gets software support for the extra DR, even better news.
I was never convinced the number was much more then a trickle to begin with. As an owner of a 1DX2 I don\'t find the low ISO DR to be the all encompassing critical spec that many on the forums obsess about. Pushing skin tones will show you that right away.
On one hand, I personally know some folks who switched — some very serious landscape photographers with actual reputations in the photography world. I\'m thinking of three in particular, and there were others. They liked the DR and the small size and low noise. Given who they are (at least some of them) I was surprised, and I have to take them very seriously. (Unlike some, however, they spend their time making photographs rather than proselytizing.)
On the other hand, on a recent 5-week stint of overseas travel I decided to keep a sort of informal eye out for who was using what in the way of cameras. Mostly I saw a ton of people using smart phones. I saw a lot of Canon and Nikon DSLRs. I saw a few — more than I expected – small point and shoot cameras. I saw a small number of mirrorless cameras. (That\'s what I was shooting.) Although they were probably there I did not see a single Sony A7r or A7rII.
The Sony cameras are good cameras and they offer some very compelling features to a number of photographers and some good photographers have gone that route and do great work with the gear. But, despite what we might hear in camera forums, they are not exactly \"blowing out of the water\" the existing mix of cameras.
(For my own part, I almost always do travel with small mirrorless system. It isn\'t Sony but it could be. And I do believe that someday — a time we have not yet reached — there is a very, very good chance that improved mirrorless systems will increasingly supplant DSLRs.)
The whole DR thing, while real, has been absurdly overblown. I said that when Canon was \"behind\" and I\'ll continue to say it if Canon ends up 2 stops \"ahead.\"
That\'s how I see, or saw, it.
Dan
Sep 07, 2016 at 07:51 AM
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