All the options may leave some of us thinking the picture is a bit hazy? Mirrorless options have proliferated in the past year, and trends have become clearer. Canon and Nikon have shown their initial hands and Leica’s L mount has moved off the fringes as Sigma and Panasonic join in. Fujifilm has made it very clear that their answer to high pixel-count full frame … [Read more...]
The Present State of Mirrorless Part II: Manufacturer/mount summaries
Sony: A Sony E-mount lens family portrait Beyond question, the mirrorless market leader as of July, 2019, Sony also manufactures image sensors for most of their competitors. Sony has been in the mirrorless camera business since 2010, and their unofficial motto has always been “how much sensor can we stuff in there”. The early Sony mirrorless cameras were APS-C, and the … [Read more...]
“Want of Lenses” – Sony and Canon APS-C introductions
“Were I to die this moment, ‘Want of Frigates’ would be found stamped on my heart”Lord Admiral Horatio Nelson With apologies to Britain’s greatest sailor, most APS-C systems are missing their eyes, as the Royal Navy was when Admiral Nelson wrote the above. As frigates were the eyes of the fleet, lenses are literally the eyes of our photographic systems. It is … [Read more...]
The Present State of Mirrorless: Part 1
Part 1: Overview The camera market as a whole is contracting, but mirrorless is where the new growth is occurring. As the market for “serious cameras” contracts in the face of phone photography, essentially all of the major camera manufacturers have put their efforts into the development of mirrorless bodies and their associated systems of lenses and accessories. … [Read more...]
Mirrorless Wars
It Will Be An Interesting Rest Of The Year Since the early 2000’s, the photography community has been part of what could be termed the megapixels war. Camera manufacturers, as well as photographers, raced to keep up with having the latest and greatest camera with the most megapixels. We all wondered how much was enough. We crept from 6 megapixels to 12, 24, 26, 40, 45, … [Read more...]
