Re:Dumb Things Camera Companies are Still Doing
by mschuster91 on Wednesday September 27, 2017 @05:26AM
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Yep, and the A9 is, with ~3k4€ just for the body, outside of my price range unfortunately :(
The A7s2 costs ~2k€, I'll have to spend at least a grand on lenses and another grand for the XLR/mike head and the external battery pack... thanks for the heads-up on the performance though, hope the A7S will live up to expectations ;)
Re:Dumb Things Camera Companies are Still Doing
by petepete on Wednesday September 27, 2017 @06:33AM
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I think that a more-realistic competitor of the A7SII is the Fuji X-T2. The Fuji has a wonderful feel, the UX is really impressively simple and just 'feels right'.
Had I not already invested in another system, I'd probably have gone Fuji.
Comparison for video:
https://www.dpreview.com/articles/2661726126/alpha-better-so...
Field notes:
Used one on a trip in Europe. The light gathering is astonishing, both photos and video. Street shooting at night in dimly lit rural towns, almost every shot looks better than it did to naked eye.
Only took two very small lenses, FE 2/28 and FE 1.8/50, both gave results that belie their size and cost. It autofocused down to light levels that would need a 15 second exposure at f2 (candlelight is EV 4, autofocuses down to EV -3). It autofocused on stars.
The main thing I can't get over is its uncanny ability to nail tack sharp focus on the iris of either the main face in my image or the preferred registered face among many faces, at arbitrary distances from face larger than frame to far enough away focus doesn't matter.