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I've now come to the conclusion that all the interchangeable lens digital cameras available in the marketplace perform at a 'more than sufficient' level, are very full featured, versatile and are capable of producing better image files than most photographs can shoot. They are wonders of technology that can operate in near total darkness, focus faster than we can track with our eyes, create high resolution images, make movies, time lapses and much more. Any of us should be able to make excellent images from any of them. We just need to look for the ones that have the features we need for our work then decide which one feels best in our hands and works best with how we like to work. Easy peasy.
But, picking the most full featured camera with the largest sensor with the most resolution won't help us much if their are not the lenses available to get the job done for us. The lenses, to me, are now the key.
I believe the availability of lenses for me to accomplish what I need to accomplish with my photography matters more to me than sensor size or numbers of pixels. Before buying into a camera system you need to ask yourself if lenses are available that will fully meet your needs and how good quality are those lenses? Whatever types of photography you practice, without the focal lengths (prime or zoom), aperture, versatility, sharpness, fast autofocus, ability to resolve the number of pixels on your chosen camera or whatever combination of those things matters most to you are not available, you might as well pick another system.
Luckily for us, most camera manufacturers, with a lot of help from coalitions, partnerships and independent lens producers, can provide a full range of focal lengths, zoom and prime lenses. But the wild card is image and build quality of some of those really inexpensive lenses.
My advice, before buying your next camera, is to carefully consider the available lenses that are easily obtainable at a reasonable price or, as an alternative, available on the used market, before making that substantial purchase. Its not called a 'system' for nothing.
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Dennis A. Mook
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Dennis, I hope that's not a photo of your lens collection LOL.
ReplyDeleteHa! If they were, I would be long ago divorced and living in a van somewhere in the western U.S. In reality I have a few Nikon Z lenses to use with my Z7II, a couple of F mount autofocus and a few old manual focus Nikon AIS lenses. The F mount AF lenses were gifted to me by the widow of a very close photographer friend who passed away very unexpectedly two years ago. She also gifted me his D850. I have them on display as a reminder of our friendship and her generosity. The old manual focus AIS lenses are mostly primes I bought in the 1970s and early 1980s, long before Nikon jumped into autofocus back in the 90s, or whenever it was.
DeleteI think this post is spot on. 2 years ago I was toying with the idea of moving back to Canon (where I was in 2013-2014). I really liked the AF on the new then R6. Perhaps it was the sample variation of the lenses rented with the R6, but after a close comparison with the Nikon lenses I owned and had used, I decided to wait for Nikon to catch up with the camera features. In the meantime, the Olympus lens set became my daily choice. I do like the S series Nikon lenses I own, and have rented. Maybe Mrs. Santa will send me a Z8 rental to tempt me.
ReplyDeleteMy wife, who has been in sales her entire adult life, says that in her experience, men who change cars often stay with the same wife. Possibly that is why she has never complained about my multiple cameras.
Thank you! That is great information about wives tolerating multiple cameras. Maybe that is why my wife hasn’t complained about my gear spending over the past 48 years. ~Dennis
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