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andylynn

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  1. Classic is like porn. We know it when we see it. An XD11 has autoexposure modes and only one shutter speed works without a battery, but it’s obviously classic. An EF-M is manual focus but it’s otherwise part of the EF system and it’s modern. Etc.
  2. A Z5 isn't outdated. Yes, there's newer tech on the market and a Z6ii has advantages. But for the budget, and the trip you're talking about, a Z5 with the 24-200 would be perfect. Just bring extra batteries. An R6 is better if you want to shoot 4k video or place a high value on eye-tracking AF, but for travel photography either an R6 or a Z5 would be equally good.
  3. Honestly I'd take my Z7 with AF and EVF and carry extra batteries over a digital rangefinder...
  4. A game engine isn't the right tool for the job if you're trying to replace product photography. What you want is a ray trace lighting engine and a reasonably skilled artist. The technology, and people who are good at using it, have been easily accessible for more than 15 years.
  5. NX Studio is quite good. Also, Google Capture One Free Nikon. It’s just as good but the interface is different - you might prefer one or the other.
  6. Does that really work? I never had a camera with pixel shift but I’m always seeing people saying it’s so hard to stabilize the camera well enough or finda scene still enough that they don’t bother.
  7. I know there's at least one other major company in Japan that's just called Fuji, and there's a Fuji Corp. in the industrial electronics space, so Fujifilm still needs to differentiate and might have trademark issues if they dropped the "film". But yeah, if I wanted medium format, Fuji GFX would be an obvious choice. Reasonably priced, as medium format digital goes. Not too huge. And there's a lot of synergy between the GFX line and the APSC line (e.g. software compatibility, interfaces, film modes) which makes it very usable. But the images from the Z7 are so good I don't feel a need for a larger sensor, and though I'm a bit jealous of my friend's GFX100 I'm not jealous of the fact that it cost him $10k.
  8. My Z7 takes both Nikon and 3rd party EL15 and newer. I never had a Nikon that wouldn’t take a 3rd party battery (and I’ve had a lot of Nikons). A counterfeit is a 3rd party with a Nikon label so I don’t see why it wouldn’t be accepted. (I’ve had a noticeably counterfeit battery but didn’t use it.)
  9. “Dual pixel” af was first used in Canon DSLRs. And it’s not used in all mirrorless. And there’s no reason to think it’s the cause of that guy’s camera having long exposure noise. Three out of four mirrorless cameras he tried did not produce significant long exposure noise, which is evidence that Frans’s hypothesis does not pan out in real world use.
  10. That’s not a mirrorless problem. DSLRs also get long exposure noise. In this case the R5 had more long exposure noise than a Nikon or Sony mirrorless or an older model Canon mirrorless - it’s about the R5, not evidence that mirrorless cameras have an inherent heat problem.
  11. This isn’t a Q-anon board, you can’t just make shit up. You persist in making this claim but have no evidence that supports it. Every single person here with actual experience says you’re wrong. The burden to provide evidence is yours. “Google it” is not evidence, it’s a way of saying you have none.
  12. Did you not see me talk about it for two paragraphs? Show me your “reports.” 10 years with mirrorless and aside from high spec video recording (that DSLRs can’t do either) I’ve never even seen a camera do that. Give us your sources if you think you have any. You are the exact opposite of a skeptic. You have a story you believe and o amount of real world evidence will talk you out of it. You can’t show any reason to believe that this “degradation” exists.
  13. I don't understand your obsession with this "mirrorless sensors overheat causing degradation..." story. It's all I ever see you write about. Yet you have no experience with any mirrorless system and no example of anybody experiencing this problem. Earlier today I watched a video from a guy who shot sixty 3-minute exposures in rapid succession using an M4/3 camera attached to a telescope on a rig. The camera went three hours and not only did it not overheat, he ended up with a great image of a galaxy I'd never heard of. I've never done anything that ambitious but I've used various mirrorless cameras since 2010, tens of thousands of exposures and no problems. My Z7 produces the best, cleanest, highest DR images I've ever seen. Simon Baxter shoots Sony mirrorless and I've lost track of how many publication credits and awards he has. Thomas Heaton recently went all-in on Fuji with both the APSC and medium format and he's not losing any image quality. Annie Leibovitz has had mirrorless in her kit for years and she's not complaining. Steve McCurry's SL2 isn't ruining his shots. I have friends shooting 2,000 exposures with Fuji and Canon mirrorless at weddings with no problems. None of these guys seem to be suffering from heat-induced noise either: Nikon z series Get over it already. If you want image quality, you could have a Z50 kit right now and be getting results far better than your 2004 model DSLR. Or just quit thinking about mirrorless and get a used D7100 - Keh.com will sell you one right now in EX condition for $426.
  14. I don’t remember the Df viewfinder being worse. It might be a bit better, now that I think about it. But the other big drawback is that it has the lower grade AF system like what they put in the D600. There are fewer AF points covering less of the frame.
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