And it's time movies started being high FPS. Low FPS is mainly a relic from a time film was expensive and the technology to produce it tough. Their usual excuse is that low FPS solutions do motion blur well.
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#1121/4" tripod socket is the best common option. I use it. No point there because the user don't use it. Don't undertand why remove a standard? Optical remotes? I don't take selfie. I press the button. Wifi? lol, no thanks. I want a camera not a phone and I don't want 1 hour of battery. Battery problem? where? just buy battery pack...
1. 1/4" is a common, but terrible option. The suggestion is to replace it with a builtin plate for the current status-quo, the common Arca-Swiss mount. 2. Optical remotes aren't for selfies. Smartphones on stupid sticks are for selfies. 3. Most new cameras have WiFi. It doesn't affect battery life when you're not using it. They're just usually really slow, so picture upload/sync that should take 1 min tops take 1 hou…
Duracell make a really wide range of camera batteries that all come with a 3 year warranty.
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#113My Leica SL luckily doesn't suffer from most of these 'issues'. It still only has 1 UHS-II slot though. It would be nice if it had IBIS though.
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#114Tangentially related: I plan on buying a Sony a7s Mk2 this year. Aside from the screwmount and the battery issues, how is this camera affected by the other problems mentioned in the article (vibration, especially)? Is there anyone here who regularly shoots video with this camera?
Ignore the other poster who recommended buying an a9. If all you want to do is video (and you want a sony) then the a7s2 is the best machine for the job, a9 is more trying to be a fast sports shooter. I have the A7R2 and even its video is pretty darn good, no S-Log3 and not the same amazing (it really is this good) low light performance as the A7S2 though.
The only gripes which I have with the Sony systems are the unintuitive menu systems and unergonomic body styles, compared to Canon DSLR's though of 5D / 1D ilk (and most recently, the Leica SL which is just a dream to handle).
Other than that, technically, on paper, they are amazing cameras.
p.s: IBIS is amazing, you can take pretty much any old lens and all of a sudden it's stabilised.
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#115I have a Canon DSLR and my biggest frustration is with the software. I do a lot of night photography and the longest exposure possible is 30 seconds. To go beyond this you need to buy an external shutter release. It should be a simple thing to add a few more options with longer exposures to the menu. Also, doing things like HDR or stop-motion can be a pain. Better software or the ability to run apps could solve this.
If you are a tinkerer, you could (most likely, depending on model) use a custom firmware such as Magic Lantern. Gives you basically anything you could imagine, but that Canon couldn't imagine. http://www.magiclantern.fm/
Magic lantern truly is, well, magic. When my 30D died, I bought an 50D with some ambivalence; I wanted a "real body" and can't justify the price tag any of the #D series, but the 50D can't record video. Then I installed magic lantern, and now it can record video and so much more. Didn't end up shooting much video, but the photography features are so numerous and useful.
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#116I have a Canon DSLR and my biggest frustration is with the software. I do a lot of night photography and the longest exposure possible is 30 seconds. To go beyond this you need to buy an external shutter release. It should be a simple thing to add a few more options with longer exposures to the menu. Also, doing things like HDR or stop-motion can be a pain. Better software or the ability to run apps could solve this.
If you are a tinkerer, you could (most likely, depending on model) use a custom firmware such as Magic Lantern. Gives you basically anything you could imagine, but that Canon couldn't imagine. http://www.magiclantern.fm/
Thanks! I will try out Magic Lantern!
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#117Earlier quoted context omitted.
They're not choosing to compete with smartphones - smartphones are eating into their market thus forcing competition. As smartphone cameras have improved the more they've eaten into the market. Note that this argument does not require that all users of their cameras would ever consider using a smartphone instead.
What market? Smartphones and high end cameras aren't really comparable. They compete in the sense that they're both able to take pictures, but they don't compete across all possible dimensions. I mean, I could be wrong, but these don't look like substitute goods. Smartphones and crappy cameras certainly are, but not not smartphones and high-end cameras. But using cheaper parts does make cameras crappier, so doing so…
but these don't look like substitute goods
I know lots of people who used to carry DSLRs everywhere but who now only carry their iPhone.
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#118I could only imagine if Apple took all of their camera expertise from the iPhone and all of their existing Chip expertise and all of their Operating Systems expertise to create a Semi-Pro Mirrorless camera. Imagine full iOS integration, super fast A-11 Bionic chip (same as iPhone), high throughput wireless components, custom OS (like WatchOS), developer API, W2 chip for Bluetooth pairing, OLED screen, and beautiful l…
They could buy Leica and build a new M series camera, it could be massively expensive and still be an insane hit.
I don't think the majority of the traditional Leica clientele would appreciate a camera manufactured by a hip computer and phone maker.
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#119And it's time movies started being high FPS. Low FPS is mainly a relic from a time film was expensive and the technology to produce it tough. Their usual excuse is that low FPS solutions do motion blur well.
I wonder what, say, 100 fps video shot with an exposure of 1/25 would look like. You'd need 4 cameras or a special camera to record it, but that could be simulated. It would probably look bad, but maybe in an exciting new way? Has anyone tried that yet in, say, Blender?
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#120Earlier quoted context omitted.
What market? Smartphones and high end cameras aren't really comparable. They compete in the sense that they're both able to take pictures, but they don't compete across all possible dimensions. I mean, I could be wrong, but these don't look like substitute goods. Smartphones and crappy cameras certainly are, but not not smartphones and high-end cameras. But using cheaper parts does make cameras crappier, so doing so…
but these don't look like substitute goods I know lots of people who used to carry DSLRs everywhere but who now only carry their iPhone.
As I wrote the other day in a different context, when prices got low enough, a lot of people bought DSLRs with cheapo kit lenses, turned the control dial to Auto, and lugged them around to take snapshots for posting to Facebook. For the most part, smartphones have gotten good enough that, if that's how you use a DSLR, you should mostly leave it at home.
Many people do have a number of lenses and use DSLRs for creative control but they may not even be a minority. Heck, I'm a relatively serious amateur photographer and I often don't bother carrying a dedicated camera today if I know I'll just be doing some occasional casual shooting.