Years ago I gave up on trying to make one system a Jack-of-all-trades. These days I use whatever makes life easy for me in the field.
There's no photographic challenge that can't be met with a sufficiently large and well-stocked camera bag... and a bank account to match.
I'm still struggling to find the "sweet spot" where I can accomplish the most with the smallest set of gear, but it seems I'm not making much progress. I think the Sony system is the best all-around single system for what I like to shoot - birds, wildlife, macro, landscapes, and dabbling in wildlife video. If I had never picked up a Fuji GFX, I could probably be happy shooting with a couple of Sony cameras and half-a-dozen lenses, although I would still be complaining about minor things like the camera bodies being too small to hold securely and comfortably.
For birds and macro, the OM-1 is a very compelling option, but limited in other areas by resolution and dynamic range. I have a soft spot for Nikon, but their cameras are too kludgy, their desirable telephoto lenses are impossible to get, and their mainstream zoom lenses are not as good as Sony's offerings. Leica and Panasonic's L-mount full-frame cameras are great for landscape and video, but birds and wildlife are a challenge with their AF system (although they are making progress now). Canon doesn't interest me at all (even though I was a CPS member for over 20 years) due to their bizarre design choices and lacklustre mirrorless lenses.
My reason for coming back to the Fuji X system was for a similar look to the files and similar camera layout to my GFX, and for shared batteries, chargers, and flash system. From my experience so far, although the new subject recognition AI is nice, the overall AF performance has only improved marginally from the X-T2 and X-H1, and the 26mp APS-C files don't handle ISO noise as well as the current m4.3 cameras do, let alone be competitive with full frame.
May 19, 2023 at 08:16 AM
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