As long as they release a 5D Mark V, they can do whatever they want as regards mirrorless.
The second half is true.
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As long as they release a 5D Mark V, they can do whatever they want as regards mirrorless.
After 13 years I made my first non Canon purchase, the Panasonic S1. I am blown away by the quality of its straight out of the camera jpgs. Video quality is outstanding of course; it's what Panasonic is known for. And it always made me wonder how Panasonic managed to retain so much detail in their videos compared to the dull videos out my Canons. Now it's clear. It's not just video. Panasonic's image processing/image compression technology is on another level and outstanding video is a result of that.Sadly after 10 years with Canon I'm now exploring other options. I'm stalling because of a major investment with EF glass. If I do make a switch, I will miss Canon ergonomics. Their bodies fit my hand perfectly.
All this chatter of mirrorless and FF 7D series.... the 7D is neither and the 5D is at least closer being FF.
The 7D brought the newer User Interface and Ergonomics that the 5DIII had. Although it only had 19 AF points...It paved the way for the later 61 point AF system. It's only weakness was the very poor sensor.
The EOS R is grossly overpriced for what it is and these cameras will no doubt continue the trend. For 2 or 3 other manufacturers you can get great dynamic range, IBIS, excellent video features, dual card slots (in 2), fast FPS and more for £1600-£2000. The EOS R gives you none of that for £2350.
If I were so anxious to have 4k I'd buy a dedicated 4k video camera.
After 13 years I made my first non Canon purchase, the Panasonic S1. I am blown away by the quality of its straight out of the camera jpgs.
Video quality is outstanding of course; it's what Panasonic is known for.
But how’s the autofocus?After 13 years I made my first non Canon purchase, the Panasonic S1. I am blown away by the quality of its straight out of the camera jpgs. Video quality is outstanding of course; it's what Panasonic is known for. And it always made me wonder how Panasonic managed to retain so much detail in their videos compared to the dull videos out my Canons. Now it's clear. It's not just video. Panasonic's image processing/image compression technology is on another level and outstanding video is a result of that.
I am not getting rid of my Canon gear though, at least not the 7d2. There will just be no more Canon purchases.
I picked the one with the white ferry, I went full-screen. I went to 100% and saw how the trees smoshed into a green oil-painting mess with no detail. I closed the tab.
I did the same with the one of the Harbour Air Turbo-Otter landing. The aircraft itself is blurred due to motion. A sellable shot would be a shutter speed of around 1/60 to 1/80 and pan with the aircraft to give a nice blurred background for dramatic speed. Try that on the smartphone.
Generally they are nice compositions and well-exposed. But shooting on a tiny sensor with a 2mm plastic lens is throwing away your artistic skill. You deserve better outputs than that.
The dynamic range is okay. The video features are abysmal.It gives you great dynamic range and excellent video features. Claiming otherwise is living in denial.
It gives you great dynamic range and excellent video features. Claiming otherwise is living in denial.
Have you seriously got nothing better to do in Exeter than sit there at 11pm and make negative comments?The dynamic range is okay. The video features are abysmal.
The dynamic range is okay.
The video features are abysmal.
Canon wants to play in a higher price bracket, but they also want to play games with their camera features. While Sony is offering cameras with video that beats anything from Canon, Canon still chooses to play games with their video feature set in the R.
While Nikon has been offering Camera's with 14-15 stops of DR Canon is acting like the R is good enough with the sensor from the old 5D IV.
They want you to go spend 3 grand on the 85 f/1.2 and put it on an R camera that has an obsolete sensor even by Canon's behind the curve standards.
The problem with your statement is that it's not an absolute world. The guy who finished second to Usain Bolt is still excellent, he's also objectively the worse option if you're a betting man.
Er....no it was a very poor sensor period. Regardless of what Nikon brought out. It was my impressios of my 7D the moment I got it out of the box and took it on a wild life photo shoot. I loved the new AF system, the live view integration was the best so far and the new ergonomics and menu system was way better than anything previous. But I could see iso noise in blue skies at 200 iso. The raw files (once adobe released it's converter for Lightroom) had less lattidude or push ability compared to my full frame 5DII (at the time) and certainly compared to my previous 1.6x crop cameras. The Aliasing filter seemed stronger and files were generally soft at 100%. They needed a higher degree of sharpening than any Canon DSLR I'd owned up to that point. I figured that Canon were trying to hide an inherently noisy sensor by reducing the default sharpening amount."Very poor"...it was better than the competition when it was released. People bang on it in retrospect because soon after its release Nikon released new APS-C cameras that legitimately did do better at high ISO and of course had better DR(oning). But for the time and sensor size the 7D wasn't bad at either. And low ISO detail was very, very good.
On the day of its release though it was better than Nikon's offerings in all respects.