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Farewell to the DSLR camera
Zucca:
--- Quote from: bd139 on July 15, 2022, 03:12:14 pm ---That's a good point about RAW files. The NEF format is not an open standard with an open specification for example. Every spec and open source codec out there is reverse engineered. JPEG is open.
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As long you stay with the big ones, Canon, Nikon etc... I would not be so worried about the future RAW compatibility.
We should also not forget C-RAW for Canon addicted like me.
Interesting enough turning HEIF on disable some functions in Canon R6... :-//
ops...
https://www.dpreview.com/forums/post/65624591
What?
Not surprised, we live in a JPEG world.
TimFox:
With any RAW files I want to keep, I first "develop" them into TIFF files, which I then edit/crop/correct.
The services I use to print them, always want JPEG files, which I create after resizing the images and canvas for the intended format.
(Since I often start with a full-resolution scan from a 4x5 inch film transparency, I can hear the pixels screaming as I compress them down to 11x14 at 300 dpi.)
Clarification: my Epson 750 film scanner produces TIFF files directly, but my DSLRs produce RAW files, and the Pentax software "develops" them to TIFF.
SiliconWizard:
--- Quote from: Zucca on July 15, 2022, 02:13:07 am ---
--- Quote from: SiliconWizard on July 14, 2022, 06:40:09 pm ---
--- Quote from: Zucca on July 14, 2022, 05:40:04 pm ---FUUU now I want a mirrorless and need to sell my DSLR.. I hate you all.
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Because you think that's actually better? :-DD
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WYSIWYG
As bd said, mainly exposure control....
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And I do not agree with that. But surely we all have a different definition of "better" anyway.
And you never exactly get what you see in the camera display/viewfinder anyway. At least color wise.
I do not care about taking the "perfect" (if by that you only take purely technical parameters anyway, hence why I said it was good for cyborgs =) ) picture at first shot anyway. Digital cameras have this benefit that you can take almost as many as you want for basically free. Many DSRLs (including my Canon) have a mode with which it can automatically take a series of shots with varying parameters. That's more than enough for me. And for moving targets, you have a hard time beating a direct optical view anyway, and those automated shots modes are pretty handy.
Besides, most DSLRs can do both anyway. (Not necessarily both in the viewfinder, but at least on the embedded display, in cases you need that kind of view.
Just my opinion. The only real benefit for manufacturers is cost reduction.
Zucca:
A few facts...
Mirrorless has better exposure control than DSLR.
It is not an opinion it is a fact.
Focus? DSLR are doing an excellent approximation job. Mirrorless do not need an approximation.
Again, the above it is not an opinion it is a fact.
Furthermore the absence of a mirror between lens and sensors is hard to beat to get the best out of a lens.
The closer you are to the sensor the better.
--- Quote from: SiliconWizard on July 15, 2022, 06:15:47 pm ---Many DSRLs (including my Canon) have a mode with which it can automatically take a series of shots with varying parameters.
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Mirrorless does it too.... unrelated to the topic.
Here is were mirrorless are suffering:
1) battery life
2) Not real time viewfinder
Colors? Yes it's a taste thing, I love black and white portrait.
bd139:
Also to point out that SLR cameras were a hack. DSLRs we’re a perpetuation of that hack. Mirrorless are the fix for the hack.
The viewfinder is not even slightly laggy on the Nikons. And yes the battery life isn’t great.
If I have any complaints it was that when I bought it you couldn’t get any spare batteries anywhere. by sheer coincidence I walked past a Nikon dealer in London who happened to have some in stock just delivered but I had to wait 4 weeks for that to happen.
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