Myths about mirrorless cameras
Jan 30, 2019 21:30:58 #
So you're thinking about catching the mirrorless wave? Make sure you double-check all your reasons and assure you're not being fooled by the marketing hype. 
1. When you remove the mirror, full-frame mirrorless bodies are feather light and the size of toys.
2. Lenses for mirrorless bodies are cheaper and don't even have a measurable weight.
3. If you buy a mirrorless camera, your existing DSLRs turn to dust.
4. Sony builds mirrorless cameras for the masses and prices them of the benefit of mankind.
5. If Sony mirrorless cameras were better than DSLRs, they would be more expensive.
6. Sony makes Nikon's high-end sensors. Nikon is doomed.
7. Sony MILC bodies have all the features and ergonomics that professionals demand. (Mirrorless Interchangeable Lens Camera).
8. Sony cameras are mature products and have the best documentation.
9. If you can't afford to go full-frame and mirrorless, you can't afford to go from good to great.
10. Mirrorless cameras have a terrible battery life.
11. Mirrorless cameras do not have dual card slots, a professional deal-breaker.
12. The mirrorless EVF (Electronic View Finder) is too small and too slow to be useful.
13. Sony RAW files have a lossy compressed setting that's as bad as shooting JPEG.
14. If Image Stabilization was supposed to be in the camera, God wouldn't have made IS / VR / VC enabled lenses first. (IBIS - in-body image stabilization).
15. The available mirrorless lenses barely cover the basics.
16. Ansel Adams never would have used a foreign-made mirrorless camera.
17. You can't get a shallow depth of field using a mirrorless camera.
18. If you go mirrorless, you have to start over for your entire lens portfolio.
19. Legacy lenses never perform as good when adapted to mirrorless. Manual focus lenses don't even gain autofocus.
20. Mirrorless cameras take better images than any level of DSLR.
1. When you remove the mirror, full-frame mirrorless bodies are feather light and the size of toys.
2. Lenses for mirrorless bodies are cheaper and don't even have a measurable weight.
3. If you buy a mirrorless camera, your existing DSLRs turn to dust.
4. Sony builds mirrorless cameras for the masses and prices them of the benefit of mankind.
5. If Sony mirrorless cameras were better than DSLRs, they would be more expensive.
6. Sony makes Nikon's high-end sensors. Nikon is doomed.
7. Sony MILC bodies have all the features and ergonomics that professionals demand. (Mirrorless Interchangeable Lens Camera).
8. Sony cameras are mature products and have the best documentation.
9. If you can't afford to go full-frame and mirrorless, you can't afford to go from good to great.
10. Mirrorless cameras have a terrible battery life.
11. Mirrorless cameras do not have dual card slots, a professional deal-breaker.
12. The mirrorless EVF (Electronic View Finder) is too small and too slow to be useful.
13. Sony RAW files have a lossy compressed setting that's as bad as shooting JPEG.
14. If Image Stabilization was supposed to be in the camera, God wouldn't have made IS / VR / VC enabled lenses first. (IBIS - in-body image stabilization).
15. The available mirrorless lenses barely cover the basics.
16. Ansel Adams never would have used a foreign-made mirrorless camera.
17. You can't get a shallow depth of field using a mirrorless camera.
18. If you go mirrorless, you have to start over for your entire lens portfolio.
19. Legacy lenses never perform as good when adapted to mirrorless. Manual focus lenses don't even gain autofocus.
20. Mirrorless cameras take better images than any level of DSLR.
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Jan 30, 2019 22:12:48 #
CHG_CANON wrote:
So, CHG Canon, have you gone mirrorless?So you're thinking about catching the mirrorless w... (show quote)
Jan 30, 2019 22:16:27 #
burkphoto wrote:
All false, but many include a grain of truth... with a false twist.
When the myth becomes truth, print the myth ...
Jan 30, 2019 22:17:54 #
PixelStan77 wrote:
So, CHG Canon, have you gone mirrorless?
Hybrid - Sony body with adapted manual focus Canon FD lenses.
Jan 30, 2019 22:19:49 #
Jan 30, 2019 22:24:01 #
Bernu wrote:
Mirrorless, mirrorless, on the wall...
Who'se the sharpest of them all?
Who'se the sharpest of them all?
Rockwell's latest update to his review of the EOS R and RF 50mm f/1.2 L includes an observation that the mirrorless combo makes the EF 50 f/1.2L look broken by comparison ...
Jan 30, 2019 22:55:28 #
21. Everything Ken Rockwell and the Northrops say is gospel.
Andy
Andy
Jan 30, 2019 22:57:21 #
AndyH wrote:
21. Everything Ken Rockwell and the Northrops say is gospel.
Andy
Andy
I second that Andy. Both of them I have blocked ;)
Thanks Paul for posting this.
Jan 30, 2019 23:07:30 #
Haydon wrote:
I second that Andy. Both of them I have blocked ;)
Thanks Paul for posting this.
Thanks Paul for posting this.
I don't hate either of these popular web "gurus", but I to take a lot of what they say with that proverbial grain of salt!
Andy
Jan 30, 2019 23:48:14 #
n3eg wrote:
"Everything you read on the internet is correct." - Abraham Lincoln
Didn't George Washington say that?
Jan 30, 2019 23:56:37 #
AndyH wrote:
I don't hate either of these popular web "gurus", but I to take a lot of what they say with that proverbial grain of salt!
Andy
Andy
I don't either Andy, but neither of them will teach me about art.
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