New ask Hacker News story: DSLR to mirrorless migration – what to buy?
DSLR to mirrorless migration – what to buy?
4 by l0b0 | 1 comments on Hacker News.
Camera manufacturers seem to be moving at speed from DSLRs to mirrorless. In case of Canon, that means a different lens mount. Since I'll need to use an adapter for my current lenses anyway, it seems like a good time to re-evaluate brands. Some questions after using a Canon 7D: - Is keeping my lenses and moving to a different brand of mirrorless a dumb idea in the first place? - Can EF mount lenses be fully utilised with mirrorless cameras? That is, can I shoot pretty much the same pictures, or am I going to lose significant light/zoom/other? - The raw image format is completely proprietary and only used by Canon. Are any of the other vendors better at making life easier for photo editing programs? - The original firmware is not very flexible. For example, requiring an external device for continuous shooting seems crazy. Magic Lantern[1], as impressive as it is, seems to suck battery and the UI is less friendly than the original. And if I understand correctly Canon is making it harder, not easier, for third party firmware with newer models. Are there any particularly good brands for moddability (without having to be a firmware engineer myself)? - The image quality is decent. Within similar price brackets it seems like most cameras are too similar to be a deal breaker. Is that a reasonable view? - Light sensitivity is not great. I don't like using flash, which means pretty much anything indoors needs to be fully open and slow. Do any brands/cameras stand out in this category? - It works decently as a webcam, except that it outputs a weird format which doesn't include microphone audio. Is this still a problem with mirrorless cameras? [1] https://ift.tt/e9CoQbO
4 by l0b0 | 1 comments on Hacker News.
Camera manufacturers seem to be moving at speed from DSLRs to mirrorless. In case of Canon, that means a different lens mount. Since I'll need to use an adapter for my current lenses anyway, it seems like a good time to re-evaluate brands. Some questions after using a Canon 7D: - Is keeping my lenses and moving to a different brand of mirrorless a dumb idea in the first place? - Can EF mount lenses be fully utilised with mirrorless cameras? That is, can I shoot pretty much the same pictures, or am I going to lose significant light/zoom/other? - The raw image format is completely proprietary and only used by Canon. Are any of the other vendors better at making life easier for photo editing programs? - The original firmware is not very flexible. For example, requiring an external device for continuous shooting seems crazy. Magic Lantern[1], as impressive as it is, seems to suck battery and the UI is less friendly than the original. And if I understand correctly Canon is making it harder, not easier, for third party firmware with newer models. Are there any particularly good brands for moddability (without having to be a firmware engineer myself)? - The image quality is decent. Within similar price brackets it seems like most cameras are too similar to be a deal breaker. Is that a reasonable view? - Light sensitivity is not great. I don't like using flash, which means pretty much anything indoors needs to be fully open and slow. Do any brands/cameras stand out in this category? - It works decently as a webcam, except that it outputs a weird format which doesn't include microphone audio. Is this still a problem with mirrorless cameras? [1] https://ift.tt/e9CoQbO
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