a little bit of everything….(Trends Go With Mirrorless, Mega-Zoom, Waterproof)
memories of lisbon from emeric on Vimeo.
Hands on: Olympus E-PM1 PEN Mini at the US Open (Electronista).
Twice.com (Click here) interviewed the big companies (including Oly and Pana). What it’s clear for everyone here is that the trend goes for Mirrorless, Mega-Zoom and Waterproof cameras!
Compact System Camera Image Quality (Luminous Landscape).
Panasonic Develops New Compact, Twin-Lens 3D Digital Camera with HD Video Capability (Panasonic.net).
Olympus E-PL3 unboxing (Mobile01).
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M43 camera does it because t...
Bu
9 months ago |Nice video!
kesztió
9 months ago |Oh my God!
The Luminous Landscape article tell about everything but one of the most important aspect of mirrorless cameras: the ability of in-camera lens correction (distorsion, vignetting, CA, etc).
This may radically change the equation…
Jim
9 months ago |i get board of these comparisons with dslr as we all know all the shortcommings of EVILs are so few and far between now that its only gonna be 2yrs before the DSLR goes the way of film….
I could not advize any user starting photography to pick any dslr… it will be obsolete so soon…
And already 90% of the critisizums of EVILs have been solved since their launch…
Sony has the DR/ISO (nex 5n) and the resolution (Nex 7) oly has the AF speed… and sony again has the 10fps shooting speed… and panasonic has video beyond any DSLR…. sorry what has the DSLR got left? oh yeh AF tracking… for about 12 more months tops! and the VF…. Which i find way harder to use than a screen… well definatly the canon rebel range of VF I find near usless! its like trying to argue tape is still better than CDs – bottom line is they have been made obsolete!
alexander
9 months ago |Somebody tell me pls:
Why are Sony/Fuji year ahed?
They are the only one who have:
- sweep panorama (even you don’t need, but I like it very much)
- 10fps
what about Canikon/ Panoly?…
Tobias
9 months ago |Sorry to wake you up but have you ever tried balancing a long(er) focal length at arms length to get a stable and sharp image?!
For anything longer then 50mm (FF) I really DEMAND a viewfinder. Even for the mediocre E-PL1 I got the VF-2. It’s an essential piece of equipment and should be included in the next GF or PEN by default.
Dummy00001
9 months ago |> This may radically change the equation…
It will not change anything to the theorizing types.
Most people do not care how they get there, as long as they get there. Faster and cheaper – the better.
It is also silly when people talk about how bad the in-camera optics correction. I would even put the corrections deeper – right into the RAWs, so that in PP I have to deal only with the really relevant to me parameters.
P.S. Just recalled. My colleague, ex-optical physicist, when I mentioned the resistance to in-camera lens correction, laughed and said “but all the cameras do it all the time: picture comes out of lens up side down!”
Seb
9 months ago |Really ?
M43 camera does it because they have no other choice if they want to produce compact glasses, mostly because of the small registration distance. And that make your lens body dependent.
The only change in the equation is that M43 is not an high end system, and will never be. Your lenses are mostly disposable, and in 10/20 years they have a lot of chance to be only a useless stack of glass wrapped in a plastic body.
A leica R lens is still totally useable on a 5D, even if R-system is done. I’m hardly believing it will be the same with m43 ones.
(and last but not least, it’s a software that can easyly fixed by a firmware update on most cameras).
Anonymous
9 months ago |The luminous landscape article is an interesting read for sure.
looking at the most pronounced differences only, there’s low light performance where mirrorless has a clear disadvantage, and size/weight/cost where it has a clear advantage. Fair enough for size/weight, but I do not have the impression that the price advantage is sufficiently pronounced in what the market actually offers.
IMO this is a major factor holding mirrorless back in the market. If they would offer a more pronounced lower cost combined with the current compromised image quality, compared to dslr, I think the format would be MUCH more successfull.
Then it could really replace (an important part of) the APS-C sized dSLR market, while that dSLR market could concentrate on where it will continue to have the clear advantage, being full frame.
Chris K
9 months ago |That Luminous Landscape article was quite the bit of armchair analysis, wasn’t it? I made it halfway through before I realized the authors had much analysis but little insight. It seems like the article was written for an engineer who has no knowledge of cameras.
Dummy00001
9 months ago |> That Luminous Landscape article was quite the bit of armchair analysis, wasn’t it?
+1.
“The facts is the first casualty of excessive analysis” (c) Unknown.
Mr. Reeee
9 months ago |If you understood half of that, you’re doing better than me.
My eyes started glazing over almost immediately.
It seems the only downside at his point in time for mirror less is more noise at higher IOSs. Well, that’s a big DUH, so buy fast lnses and don’t shoot at high ISOs. Of course, fast means primes and mostly manual lenses.
Wishing for photo gear with excellent IQ and low prices is wishful thinking. Unless you’re willing to use older manual lenses and accept the compromises that entails.
amalric
9 months ago |Very useful work for future reference. Smaller pixels generate more noise, but more resolution too, so if you have better denoising algorithms the IQ of a bigger sensor can be bridged.
As for EVIL (much nicer name) being too expensive, consider how new and disruptive these technologies and designs are. Their evolution is very fast. If one waits just one year the price of the old model will fall well below a DSLR.
If competition increases it’s only a matter of time before EVIL cameras become more convenient and offer similar performance.
What the article does is to do away with many of the common assumptions about the older technology being superior to the new one.
pdc
9 months ago |All EVILs are MILCs, but not all MILCs are EVIL.
Nick Clark
9 months ago |I’m usually a huge fan of LL – but that ‘article’ was an embarrassment, pure and simple.