New article: how to choose the best camera for you

[peterm1]

Hi Vieri - thanks for the reply - I totally understand your viewpoint. I also used the 17mm TS-E with the GFX, which helped me get down to around 13mm in 35mm terms, which is generally wide enough for me (although I used to have the Voigtlander 10mm which I used on occasion for crazy wide shots on my Sony A7RII). And yes, Leica lenses are fantastic and can provide a different look than the Fuji lenses, which I also found to be fantastic in their own way. I also sell large prints (40" x 60" and sometimes bigger), so larger resolution does help my work, and if they released a SL2 with more resolution and dynamic range I would indeed be tempted, because I really came to enjoy using the SL (and even liked the way it looked after initially thinking it was pretty ugly).

I did not love the form factor / bulkiness of the GFX, which is why I am waiting for them to announce the GFX-50R which will hopefully be a big improvement on that front.

One thing is for sure - we have amazing choices these days. Thanks again for the reply.

Best,

Peter

 

[vieri]

Hi Vieri - thanks for the reply - I totally understand your viewpoint. I also used the 17mm TS-E with the GFX, which helped me get down to around 13mm in 35mm terms, which is generally wide enough for me (although I used to have the Voigtlander 10mm which I used on occasion for crazy wide shots on my Sony A7RII). And yes, Leica lenses are fantastic and can provide a different look than the Fuji lenses, which I also found to be fantastic in their own way. I also sell large prints (40" x 60" and sometimes bigger), so larger resolution does help my work, and if they released a SL2 with more resolution and dynamic range I would indeed be tempted, because I really came to enjoy using the SL (and even liked the way it looked after initially thinking it was pretty ugly).

I did not love the form factor / bulkiness of the GFX, which is why I am waiting for them to announce the GFX-50R which will hopefully be a big improvement on that front.

One thing is for sure - we have amazing choices these days. Thanks again for the reply.

Best,

Peter

Hi Peter,

indeed, it's a great time to be doing photography - so much choice, and most of it good enough for the requirements of 99% of the photographers out there

The Canon 17mm is certainly an option, and I weighed it, but on the one end 14mm FOV equivalent is not 12mm or 10mm, and as my widest option I like to be able to go wider than 14mm; plus, is a large and heavy lens, hard to filter using 100mm filters on Medium Format - and being able to use 100mm filters with all my lenses is very important to me, I really don't want to have to use 150mm filters - and, talking about costs, it costs more than 2x the Laowa 12mm.

On a different note, I am glad to hear that you print! For me, photos really live only on paper, screens are just a poor substitute (but an invaluable tool to let us share our work with the world, of course). I also print and sell large prints, at the moment I have an exhibition open with prints of a minimum 60x90 cm printed area size, most of which have been created with the SL, and all of which printed beautifully despite the 24 Mp.

About the new SL, I am pretty sure than when it will come out it will have more resolution, and if it will offer around 45-50 Mp then it'll be amazing for my work (but also 36 mp would be a good enough improvement). Dynamic range I care less about, since I use filters all the time anyway, and since it is very unlikely that, with current technology, we'll get a quantum leap there.

Best regards,

Vieri