Morning
I haven't seen an SL yet and I don't think it fits so well for me but as I own a 007 I clearly prefer the first of each series.
That said, posting unprocessed jpegs for me means very little, all we are looking at is LR's standard profile for each camera, we certainly aren't looking at what each camera can produce. Why not process them Tom? Are they both easy to get what you want from the shot? Why not shoot at the optimal settings for each camera rather than try and match them? I'd like to see you shoot an interesting scene in the best way you can within the restrictions of the camera, process them to your taste and then let us know what you think the positives and negatives of each file are. Can you shoot a standard landscape style shot at f11 and a portrait wide open? Then we can get an idea what the differences are, if any.
I can see a lot of value in the SL being able to produce smaller files but of equal quality, that would be great but it's only relevant if you are shooting each camera to its abilities, I see no point in being able to match if your shooting is compromised.
Are you testing both or have you bought one or both??
Mat
Hi Mat,
LR is the software I mostly use for conversion as a starting point. And if color of images from both S and SL come out close at this starting point, this means life will be easier. For example it should not be too difficult to mix images from both cameras.
If I try to make the best of each file, I am afraid it would be too much a matter of personal taste to have any value for other people.
.... Are they both easy to get what you want from the shot? ...
From the first impression (that's all I have so far) the images come out of LR pretty close to how I like the to look like from both cameras:
- some pop in the colors but still natural looking
- same seems to be the case for skin tones
- also with good sharpness and contrast
It seems not much postprocessing is needed for my taste, which I like.
I can see a lot of value in the SL being able to produce smaller files but of equal quality, that would be great but it's only relevant if you are shooting each camera to its abilities, I see no point in being able to match if your shooting is compromised.
I see the value for the SL compared to an S in:
- speed and AF - with being able to focus nearly everywhere in the viewfinder and also with face detection it is easier to hit focus on the eyes as soon as people are not still
- flexibility of that 24-90 Zoom
- EVF is nice for video
- One backup body which works for T/M/S
- low light
I see the advantages of the S in a) the great (and available) lenses, the nice OVF, and the tonal transitions and also the transition from focus plane to background.
I also do like the S color I can achieve (at least I did for the S006 and I hope to achieve the same with the S007). So I was pleasantly surprised to see the SL color out of LR looks similar to the color from S007 out of LR.