Well, having seen some of your (local) produce with the keenest interest, my
take is that if you’re not going fuji GFX you’re fooling yourself, whatever the
taxman says.
But I hope you’ll be happy with what you select, purchase, use, and the results
of which you give us all too see, and oftentimes marvel at.
I know you won’t fail us ;-)
Amities
Philippe
> Le 30 avr. 2020 à 20:32, Ken Norton <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit :
>
> We've been saving up for a camera purchase at the end of the year.
> Unless we get sidewise with the taxman, or something else unforeseen
> occurs, I should be in the market for a new camera body around
> year-end. So, it's important to have a clue as to what I may be
> interested in getting.
>
> For full-frame, the logical choice is a Sony. The sad thing, though,
> is that the Sonys I can afford are getting long-in-the-tooth and
> frankly are ergonomic disaster zones. The best way I can describe the
> A7 series is "industrial". Also, there is the aspect of compatibility
> with the OMZ lenses. I'm just not seeing the "You've GOT to get a Sony
> as it's cat's meow with adapted lenses". It may be, but I look for the
> "influencers" in this regard, and in most cases, they're shooting
> Canon. I want to want the Sony, but there is just something off about
> it. I just don't understand what it is yet.
>
> That said, I've been considering other options. Honestly, the new
> Canon R series does have my attention, but no IBIS. I want IBIS. I can
> work around the image color thing, but the Canon is as exciting as a
> Toyota Camry.
>
> I visited Stewart's Camera Store in Anchorage, yesterday, and spent
> some brief, but intense time with various m43 cameras. Instead of a FF
> camera, maybe a Metabones adapter is in my future. But only if the
> camera makes that compromise worthwhile. Having the GX85 is teaching
> me what I need in regards to EVF and a few other things.
>
> The OMD-EM5 Mk3 is certainly a "logical" choice camera as it is an
> exceptional feature/price compromise. But the camera shape and balance
> with heavier lenses is a non-starter. I don't want just another
> variant of the GX85, I want something meaty. Outdoors in bright
> sunlight, the EVF was decent, but still difficult to work with. A
> competent camera and if it was my one-and-only camera with a few m43
> lenses, it would be all I need. It focused the hyper-slow 14-54 Mk1
> lens pretty fast. Manually focusing an OMZ 35-80/2.8 was OK, but I
> really wasn't sure when I nailed focus.
>
> The OMD-EM1 Mk3 is a "wow" camera. It felt good and the viewfinder was
> exceptionally good out in the sun.... Uh, with a twist. I wear
> polarizing sunglasses and there was a cross-hatch darkening pattern
> that made viewing impossible. The EM5 didn't do the same, and it
> didn't darken when rotating the camera to vertical like the GX85 does,
> but neither Olympus was what I would call Polarizer Sunglass Friendly.
> But the contrast and brightness was REALLY good and closer to OVF than
> I've ever seen before. Surprisingly, the hyper-slow 14-54 Mk1 lens
> focused faster than on ANY other camera. As fast as the motor could
> move it, it focused--with no hunting at all. Boom! Manually focusing
> the OMZ 35-80/2.8 was better than the EM5, but I still wasn't
> convinced.
>
> Then came the Panasonic G9. The viewfinder wasn't as bright and
> contrasty as the EM1's, but it is absolutely HUGE! Without a doubt,
> the G9's viewfinder is to EVF's what the OM series viewfinders were to
> SLRs. IMAX style viewfinder. It was also sunglass friendly. I did find
> the brightness and contrast in the bright sunlight to be not nearly as
> good as the EM1, but it was certainly usable. As to usability, that is
> easily the most comfortable camera (even without battery grip
> addition) and balances all lenses exceptionally well. The downside is
> that the camera took FOREVER to focus the 14-54 lens. Horribly bad.
> Manually focusing the OMZ 35-80/2.8 was "best of show". An absolute
> dream to manually focus adapted lenses. And there is focus peaking and
> what not to improve things further.
>
> So, in conclusion, there is no conclusion. The hunt continues, but
> man-alive, the G9 is a REALLY good camera.
>
> AG Schnozz
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