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| SiliconWizard:
--- Quote from: Zucca on July 15, 2022, 06:38:23 pm --- --- 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. --- End quote --- Mirrorless does it too.... unrelated to the topic. --- End quote --- If you don't follow the discussion or reasoning. =) The point was that some people on here including you were saying that it was just better because you could see directly (WYSIWYG, remember?) exactly what you would get on the photo. To which I respond that I'll favor a direct optical view, combined with the fact I may not be able to select the best parameters this way, but largely mitigated with this feature of automatic varying parameters, which would let me select the best results later on. That is largely opinion, and this is mine. So I'll repeat: I *personally* favor a direct optical view *even if I don't see the end result directly before taking the picture*, which can be largely mitigated (and often, more productively, at least again IMHO) with a rafale of shots using automatically varying parameters. Is that clear enough? |
| radar_macgyver:
My rather old DSLR (Nikon D5100) has a 'live view' mode, but it disables the phase-based autofocus. The amplitude-only autofocus is a lot slower, and prone to hunting. Has this improved with the mirrorless cameras? The smaller body size is appealing, though many Nikon mirrorless bodies are not significantly smaller than their DSLRs. |
| bd139:
Autofocus only hunts if you are well underexposing. As for size, attached. I have the peak designs bag clip. It’s small enough and unobtrusive enough to clip onto the shoulder strap when I’m out hiking. |
| mag_therm:
I have a case full of collection of vintage Pentax and Ricoh K mount metal body lenses starting from late 1970's. For those of us wanting to continue using their brand of 35mm vintage lenses, a mirrorless body is not much of a size advantage. That is because the lenses have to maintain the original distance to the film plane that included the mirror swing. Pentax bought out a apsc mirrorless. I had one and it was useless, being as big as a dslr and without an eyepiece v/f ! I also had an Olympus M43 mirrorless, I purchased the electronic eyepiece v/f but I never liked it. Now I have a Pentax/Ricoh K-S1 dslr. It is a few years old now, almost as small and light as a K1000 or MX. I use it completely as manual aperture and shutter and focus Futher it has ability to switch off completely the rear screen and menu crap etc. That greatly increases battery life, it goes 6 months per charge and I have taken it on travels a few times without even the charger. |
| nightfire:
--- Quote from: radar_macgyver on July 15, 2022, 07:56:21 pm ---My rather old DSLR (Nikon D5100) has a 'live view' mode, but it disables the phase-based autofocus. The amplitude-only autofocus is a lot slower, and prone to hunting. Has this improved with the mirrorless cameras? The smaller body size is appealing, though many Nikon mirrorless bodies are not significantly smaller than their DSLRs. --- End quote --- The Autofocus of the actual generation of mirrorless cameras has drastically improved. The Nikon D5100 and other cameras that era (about 10 years ago) used mostly contrast-based autofocus, which is slow and was used with simple algorithms. (D)SLR Systems back then were/are using phase-detection based AF, which means that there is a whole sensor array (usually placed in the bottom of a (D)SLR and getting its light via a second mirror behind the main mirror, which is translucent) dedicated to that. Fun fact: The placement and way of function of that AF is the reason, why the best aperture for quick focusing is 2.8- higher numbers as widest aperture yields less light and worse coverage of the AF module, and a wider open aperture can cause internal reflexes due to much more light coming in, therefore reducing contrasts. (In the german DSLR forum some years ago there was a long thread elaborating on this) Also the live view of early cameras like the D300 or so was not intended to be able to use the camera like a "point&shoot" and hold in in the "stinky diaper hold" (C) Kirk Tuck- it was intended to make focusing easier with macro shots and such. |
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