david_owen3

<p>I had a Nikon D700 bought second hand and then spent time with micro fourthirds before settling on a Fuji X-E1. I am fortunate inasmuch as I seldom shoot real action although even for casual portraits the X-E1 sometimes can't get the shot when someone is moving around. However, the IQ, particularly with the primes is in general as good as I could wish for which in the end was not quite the case with my Olympus E-M5.<br> Would I go back to something like the D700? Well there were 3 things that stopped me hanging onto this camera for more than a year --I'd originally expected 5! One was the weight which I should have anticipated, the second was forever having to clean the sensor which I haven't had to do once with mirrorless and the third was that my best lenses were actually AIS primes (which I still use with my Fuji) which somehow defeated the purpose of having a camera with fast AF as I couldn't afford modern pro-level AF lenses. <br> No, I think that by the time I may need more responsive AF, it will already be available with Fuji (the X-T1 is already pretty close and the next generation will further raise the bar) and there's nothing else I can think of which could tempt me back to a clattering mirror -- an EVF is actually much more useful than an OVF when it's of good enough quality.</p>