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EOS Bodies - For Stills / Exposure consistancy across multiple bodies.

« on: June 06, 2012, 07:49:49 PM »

Ok, a little background.

I currently have two camera bodies and will soon have a third.  All three are Canon (300D,350D,550D, so crop bodies) but two of them have had hardware modifications done to them.

I have been playing with the idea of doing some comparison shots to show how the mods effect how much light the sensor gets, but then I realized I was not sure if exposure was consistent across different models.

So that is my basic question to everyone.  If I plug the same manual settings in the with identical lens/lighting into multiple models of crop bodies, if they were stock bodies, could I expect identically exposed results?  Or does the behavior of the sensor render the manual settings meaningless on any body other then the one you are metering them for?

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EOS Bodies - For Stills / Why all the hate for still camers?

« on: February 29, 2012, 01:06:28 PM »

This is sorta the inverse of the 'why so much hate for VDSLRs' thread, since it got me wondering.. why so much hate for dedicated still cameras?

In general the people asking for a stills-only camera are not suggesting multimedia cameras shouldn't exist, they just want something optimized for their use case.. so why is this so offensive, or why are people so defensive about their preferred combination of features?

Is it really that threatening to have other choices on the market?  Does it really have to be all or nothing?   Is it insecurity or fear that if Canon produces both types that they will no longer cater to the needs of videographers?  Is it begin threatened that other use cases have a voice which leads to less of their own?  Is it riding the high of being a major design focus and not wanting it to end?  Is it simply discomfort at being reminded that there are more types of photography and thus their one twue way might not be the type of the market?  Is it techno elitism and the ego bruising that goes along with that (anyone who follows slashdot can see what happens when someone *gasp* does not see the obvious greatness in someone's favorite tech..)?

I am really curious why people seem to feel it is so important that their market segment eradicate another, and that space can not be shared.