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Post by realworldperson » Tue, Mar 21, 2023, 11:46 PM UTC

coldtea wrote: post #242

vvrm wrote: post #165

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> another victim of the rapid pace of improvement in smartphones It's not just the pace of improvement, but also the marketing spin. I find the strengths of smartphone camera and ILCs pretty complementary. Smartphone cameras work pretty well outdoors where there is enough light. DSLR and mirroless are hard to beat indoors in low light conditions. Coincidentally it is also easier to find your ILC indoors at home when…

> DSLR and mirroless are hard to beat indoors in low light conditions. That's exactly the area where smartphones have been killing DSLR and mirroless for years now. That's because of internal DSP processing, combining multiple frames, machine learning AI, etc, but to the consumer it doesn't matter: they get a clearer, more stable picture than what comes out of the DSLR/mirroless and with way less effort.

Post by pixelmonkey » Tue, Mar 21, 2023, 11:55 PM UTC

freetime2 wrote: post #252

pixelmonkey wrote: post #246

Sad news. A guy named Ken Rockwell runs a solo operation publishing reviews of cameras and lenses across the DSLR / mirrorless ILC market. https://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/reviews.htm Example review of the recently released Canon R7 (a nice mirrorless camera I own): https://kenrockwell.com/canon/eos-r/r7.htm Note that his review style is to start with sample images, and then kick off his prose/text review. So you hav…

Ken Rockwell's reviews are not really comparable to the in-depth reviews that DP Review built their reputation on, though. Here's their review of the Canon R6 m2 for comparison (unfortunately they haven't done an in-depth review for the R7 so I can't provide an apples-to-apples comparison): https://www.dpreview.com/reviews/canon-eos-r6-mark-ii-in-dep... DP Review also has a YouTube channel that is separate from their…

Post by e12e » Wed, Mar 22, 2023, 12:00 AM UTC

Post by freetime2 » Wed, Mar 22, 2023, 12:01 AM UTC

pixelmonkey wrote: post #253

freetime2 wrote: post #252

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Ken Rockwell's reviews are not really comparable to the in-depth reviews that DP Review built their reputation on, though. Here's their review of the Canon R6 m2 for comparison (unfortunately they haven't done an in-depth review for the R7 so I can't provide an apples-to-apples comparison): https://www.dpreview.com/reviews/canon-eos-r6-mark-ii-in-dep... DP Review also has a YouTube channel that is separate from their…

I agree. I was just providing an alternative given the reality.

Post by adamredwoods » Wed, Mar 22, 2023, 12:08 AM UTC

op00to wrote: post #74

Zak wrote: post #65

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Consumer fixed-lens cameras are much more dead as a market than ILCs, and those made up the bulk of camera sales. Almost everyone who isn't doing photography as a profession or serious hobby is satisfied with smartphone cameras now.

I used to shoot only medium and large format film. Maybe 3-4 years ago, I realized I can do everything I want with my phone camera.