Camera Manufacturers Today

[davidc]

Total cost of kit, body and lens, £470.

Getting a PAD/365 shot nailed during the day so you don't fret during the evening? Priceless

[Mike Farley]

Being retired was certainly an advantage. That said one shot only finally came together with 22 seconds to go. Nervous days (and nights!).

[Mike Farley]

It's getting competitive among the bloggers out there. Now Thom Hogan weighs in with his views.

http://www.sansmirror.com/newsviews/so- ... amera.html

He is a bit off with his views on landscapes. At AP's and Sony's recent promotion event, I saw some excellent and detailed landscapes taken on the A7/R by Joe Cornish which he had printed to A2. Hogan overlooks that you can attach just about anyone else's lens to the camera via an adapter. OK, it's most likely manual focus, but Metabones has an adapter for EOS lenses which retains AF. A bit slow admittedly, but that is not usually a concerm for landscapes.

http://briansmith.com/sony-a7-a7r-lens-mount-adapters/

[Mike Farley]

It's getting competitive among the bloggers out there. Now Thom Hogan weighs in with his views.

http://www.sansmirror.com/newsviews/so- ... amera.html

He is a bit off with his views on landscapes. At AP's and Sony's recent promotion event, I saw some excellent and detailed landscapes taken on the A7/R by Joe Cornish which he had printed to A2. Hogan overlooks that you can attach just about anyone else's lens to the camera via an adapter. OK, it's most likely manual focus, but Metabones has an adapter for EOS lenses which retains AF. A bit slow admittedly, but that is not usually a concer for landscapes.

http://briansmith.com/sony-a7-a7r-lens-mount-adapters/

[Mike Farley]

Now Mike Johnston at TOP solicits the views of Sony A7/S/R users. Some interesting responses to the earlier post for the Fuji X-T1 from people who have owned both that and the E-M1. I have not done any scientific analysis, but it seemed to me that slightly more more selling off the Fuji in favour of the Olympus than the other way around.

http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.co ... nions.html

In the meantime, Thom Hogan reckons that Canonikon will soon be entering the mirrorless market with serious intent, maybe as early as next year.

http://www.sansmirror.com/newsviews/the ... oblem.html

It seems to me that Canon has been making more or less the same camera for the past five years*, seemingly marking time while Nikon and Sony march on with enhanced sensor designs. Even before that, it was content to let Nikon play catch up while the 20D received just minor updates to become the 30D and was essentially the same camera. There are rumours that the 7D update will have new sensor technology and I wonder if in the interim Canon has quietly been working on that "disruptive technology" to which Hogan refers?

* In the case of the 7D, it has been the same camera.

[Mike Farley]

Yet another article by Thom Hogan on his continuing theme. Manufacturers are losing sales by failing to provide the facilities and functions which customers want.

http://www.dslrbodies.com/newsviews/eve ... oblem.html