10 Reasons Why a Pro Photographer Left Nikon and started shooting with Sony

[sdsr]

The grass is always greener on the other side, and it is still greener on the other side after you changed the sides:
http://money.cnn.com/2014/10/30/technology/sony/index.html?iid=TL_Popular

There is not everything better with another camera system or manufacturer; Sony also has its problems.

Right. For now I'm rather enjoying being on three sides of the fence (or three sides of two fences, or something), owning Olympus m43, Sony mirrorless & Canon dslr. I enjoy using Sony mirrorless the most, but if Canon were to release a high MP mirrorless camera that could accommodate via adapters at least the range of lenses a Sony mirrorless body can - well, one can hope - Sony's camera business might vanish overnight.

 

[Ivan Muller]

I didnt watch his video...but the typical 'switch' scenario seems to be: " Sheesch, my new little camera is just so much smaller than that big badass 5d3 with the 24-70zoom and that huge 70-200f2.8! My new sony/leica/nikon/pentax/samsung is just so small and compact. I hardly notice its there'...which of course is all true...me I just swap my big ugly zooms for a little pancake and the my 6D is almost just as small and compact as the best out there, and all it cost me was the price of a 'meal'...

 

[dgatwood]

8) I am not a big fan of Wi-Fi built in. I have used it, and in so many cases, I notice it gets bogged down. Might be nice if instead of building it in, Canon and Nikon give the ability to add modules for it, main reason being standards change... for example, MU-MIMO will only really start coming into being next year. The new 802.ac standard is just really hitting the market in stride and while 802.ac is nice, 802.ax looks to be monster with 10+ GBps transfer - so to my point, as these new standards come out, new antennas and hardware are needed, I would rather pop in an Eye-Fi Mobi Xtreme (Made the Xtreme up) into my Canon 5D MK IV and take advantage of 802.ax than be sitting there waiting on 802.n.

At this point, the main reason it gets bogged down is not the network. It's the CPU and flash card combination. The little toy processor that Canon uses can't push 10 gigabytes per second. And the data is coming from a flash card that is typically limited to considerably less than a gigabit per second (or about 1.3 gigabits per second for the very fastest CF cards), so unless you're in a very congested Wi-Fi environment, there's no advantage whatsoever to upgrading existing cameras like the 6D or 70D to anything faster than 802.11ac, because you'd also have to replace the entire guts of the camera body with something that can handle faster flash cards.

Also, many changes in Wi-Fi require adding additional, individually addressable antennas to the device. Such upgrades would not be possible by swapping out a module, because adding an antenna would require extensive body modifications. There's a reason that laptop manufacturers don't typically offer Wi-Fi upgrades, even though many offer GPU replacement. Wi-Fi is just too closely coupled with the rest of the hardware.

 

[jdramirez]

I didnt watch his video...but the typical 'switch' scenario seems to be: " Sheesch, my new little camera is just so much smaller than that big badass 5d3 with the 24-70zoom and that huge 70-200f2.8! My new sony/leica/nikon/pentax/samsung is just so small and compact. I hardly notice its there'...which of course is all true...me I just swap my big ugly zooms for a little pancake and the my 6D is almost just as small and compact as the best out there, and all it cost me was the price of a 'meal'...

Where the hell do you eat. I'm all for the occasional nice meal, but did you ask for extra bacon on the super sized meal?