Mirrorless and EVF is now primetime
I didn't buy Fuji's XT2 this time around... too many little niggles about it I didn't like for the price point. I hear the EVF is pretty much imroved over my XT1 for action work.
I got the XT20 for similar IQ instead. Then found some minor IQ strangeness with it too...
BUT... Since I got my Oly EM1v2... wow. LOVE that camera!
Everything about it... except the battery grip. Very different feel from landscape to portrait orientation... what were they thinking?!?...
But it can do it all with enough IQ I can pull a 30 to 36" print from it in decent light, which is usually all the time for what I shoot...
Anyway, EVF on that little speed-demon is about as professional as you can get with contemporary mirrorless and I had no problem shooting extremely fast sporting events with it. Lag is so minimal it's easy to get used to and blackout's also a non-issue until you jam up the buffer.
I didn't have the lastest greatest hi speed card in it. In fact I was using a lowly Lexar that wasn't even UHS1 speed because I was relying on the buffer and pauses in the action the camera could use to write to card. Worked just fine tho at times I wished I had the fastest SD card in it. Shoot a burst, shoot another... dang! can't shoot another just yet. But that was at fixed AF and 60 fps!!
When I slowed it back down to 10 or 15 fps... no problem with card speed or EVF.
I followed action completely thru the EVF, other eye closed most of the time, zooming and AF tracking throughout with very high keeper rate resulting.
I've never used such a fast and versatile camera. I've found my sports machine.
Will try it on BIF sometime but my only long lens for it is not very fast to AF. I suspect the AF system will track it pretty well tho. It did a pretty good tracking job even in the highly cluttered scenes I was using it in.
I think it used one quad-core processor just for AF functions...
Still... I'd like a FF ML body with IBIS and short flange distance... kinda like Sony... but
not a Sony.
I want a Nikon or Pentax version. Pentax didn't listen to me when I suggested it.
A Canon version, WITH 5-axis IBIS, and a sensor equal or better than the one in the 5D4 I would consider. Needs a good EVF too but I don't care if it's not as fast as my EM1 cuz it would not be a sports cam for me. Oh, and give it sensor-shift high-rez mode too. I'm not going backwards now that I've tasted that!