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Isn't the 5D2 a Live View FF camera? It already exists. Are you thinking something different?But what I really would like to have is, still, a Live FF camera. I wonder if Sony, Nikon or Canon will be first.
/Jonas
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Isn't the 5D2 a Live View FF camera? It already exists. Are you thinking something different?But what I really would like to have is, still, a Live FF camera. I wonder if Sony, Nikon or Canon will be first.
/Jonas
A camera built for live view with very fast CDAF, with no mirror, think Leica M9 sized with lenses to match the short flange distance.Isn't the 5D2 a Live View FF camera? It already exists. Are you thinking something different?
I'm with you on this Jorgen, re the A55. I want to replace my big ol' Canon 30D and comically huge lenses with a smaller, but more up-to-date, kit. Am having a devil of a time deciding whether to go Panny G*2 or Sony SLT. Mostly, I dislike the slow lenses offered for both options. I guess better high-ISO performance can make up for this?I actually find the A55 a more interesting camera than the NEX. I need a viewfinder and I prefer to have a grip. No legacy lenses for the A55 of course, but some beautiful Zeiss glass that I can't afford
I'm a bit on the fence right now. Will probably by a GF2, body only, since it's cheap and can use the same adapters as the GH1 that I have.
I'm also curious what Nikon will come up with next, since I have a lot of F-mount lenses. They have to do something.
With a 100% Live camera I'm thinking of a µ4/3, or a NEX or a Sony SLT camera, something using the sensor for light metering, DOF control and focusing. The 5D, K5, Nikon SLR, E-5 or whatever only uses Live view as an addon and in a too clumsy and slow manner. No flipping mirrors thank you, a good EVF yes please!Isn't the 5D2 a Live View FF camera? It already exists. Are you thinking something different?
I usually think of the two stops between µ4/3 and FF shared as 0.8 stops between µ4/3 and APS-C (Sony size sensor) and then 1.2 stops from APS-C to FF. To not overload my brain I I use the same numbers for noise and DOF. DR is so troubled by definitions I don't care to discuss it. (I'm also more interested in the way highlight roll-offs look than an absolute number.)At the risk of nitpicking I think you mean 0.4 stops if we are talking high ISO and DR. Crop factor difference is 2.0/1.5 so area difference is that ratio squared. SNR goes as the square root of photons collected, so we take the square root of the square and get right back to the original crop factor ratio. Converting that to stops: log(2.0/1.5)/log(2) = 0.4 stops. Pretty sure that is right, but maybe I made a mistake.
I'm sitting there as well. I like some of the Minolta/Sony lenses very much and have been contemplating the A55 as a stop gap while waiting for a FF Sony camera. Will such a camera ever materialize? I don't know.I'm with you on this Jorgen, re the A55. (...) time deciding whether to go Panny G*2 or Sony SLT. Mostly, I dislike the slow lenses offered for both options. I guess better high-ISO performance can make up for this?
The NEX is not even in the running for me.
So what lenses are you using for your landscape work with m43?I use m43 as a compact landscape kit. The NEX at present just isn't very good at that because of the very limited lens selection. Certainly both NEX and m43 have lots of legacy options, but for my landscape uses where quality but lightweight slow zooms are what is needed legacy is of no use.
Hmmmm, I'm crazy ... I have 550D, GH1, G2, NEX5, A55, NX10, NX100, SD14, E520 ... I love them allhot... please, tell me your impressions... how much do you like the camera? Do you plan to keep it? Compared to a GF1, for instance?
My 25 lenses (8mm-500mm), fitting NEX5 are enough... and I'd need a completely new set of lenses to make them useful.
I like handling with NEX5 and it's easy to take quickly a picture. I verrrry seldom need stabilisation (I seldom take tequila ...)Hello, ihad one and sold it. To my opinion, this is a great camera, but if you use it with other lenses than sony, it's a little bit difficult to take quickly a picture.
If the next Nex have stabilisation like the Olympus pen, it would be great !
No EVF, no sale. Even if the body was large enough to handle properly, without being awkward with any lens over a 50mm prime.The sensor sure appeals to me, but little else about the camera appeals as much to me as the m4/3 system.
If Sony had made the body slightly larger (the lenses have to be big anyway, so why such a miniature body?) then they could have incorporated a nice EVF option, which is sort of a must for me. And if they're going to make the screen articulate a little, why not make it more versatile (for portrait orientation shooting)?
I like it's ability, with adaptors, to mount a host of legacy lenses and the sensor is great for sure, but it just falls flat for me otherwise from a functional standpoint.
How do you other m4/3 fans feel about it? Is the sensor enough of a draw to put up with the minimal functional versatility and enter another system format?