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Re: Buying opportunity: Seeing this on camera/lens listings lately "Switching to mirrorless cameras" - pdq - 02-02-2021
pRICE cUBE wrote:
[quote=pdq]
Huh. So I currently have an old Sony digital SLR (an alpha-something) which got dropped and so the mirror is slightly off kilter. I don’t think it would be worth trying to get it fixed, even if I could find someone to fix it - it still takes pictures, although the focus is a skotch off and the image that gets taken is not quite the same as what you see in the viewfinder.
But I do have a couple of nice-ish lenses for it. Are you suggesting it might be a good time to find a newer (used) Sony body that would take these lenses?
Is your Alpha a full frame or aps-c? As far as I am aware, Sony doesn't even make traditional flip up mirror SLR anymore. The A99II uses a fixed mirror that is translucent.
It’s a Sony A100, so like, 14-15 years old (!) Almost certain it’s not a full-frame.
Not worth fixing, I think. But as I said, hearing that more recent (but still not current) models may be cheap, I figured for my uses it might be worth getting a used camera body on sale that would work with my 2 Sony lenses.
Edit: it looks like a Sony A58 (2013 to 2017) was the eventual successor in the same line, and I’m seeing those on eBay for around $250. I wonder if I should get one of those?
Re: Buying opportunity: Seeing this on camera/lens listings lately "Switching to mirrorless cameras" - deckeda - 02-03-2021
mattkime wrote:
Whats the motivation for switching? Does it result in better photos? Lighter equipment?
Video features aside, mirrorless cameras are finally delivering on the implied promise of autofocus. As good as the best DSLRs became, with mirrorless it’s easier to cover the image area with AF points. Tracking fast moving subjects becomes reliably usable, not just “usually.” Enable eye-AF and you’re basically never focusing. It sticks to your subject, or the desired portion of your subject. Everyone from event photogs to sports to portrait shooters are pretty much all saying their hit rates for in-focus shots goes way up, even for very shallow depth of field images.
Other issues are unrelated to the cameras themselves. All lens design now happens for mirrorless models. Even if every camera had serious usability issues, people will always be drawn to the best glass they can get and build a system around it.
Re: Buying opportunity: Seeing this on camera/lens listings lately "Switching to mirrorless cameras" - pRICE cUBE - 02-03-2021
deckeda wrote:
[quote=mattkime]
Whats the motivation for switching? Does it result in better photos? Lighter equipment?
Video features aside, mirrorless cameras are finally delivering on the implied promise of autofocus. As good as the best DSLRs became, with mirrorless it’s easier to cover the image area with AF points. Tracking fast moving subjects becomes reliably usable, not just “usually.” Enable eye-AF and you’re basically never focusing. It sticks to your subject, or the desired portion of your subject. Everyone from event photogs to sports to portrait shooters are pretty much all saying their hit rates for in-focus shots goes way up, even for very shallow depth of field images.
Other issues are unrelated to the cameras themselves. All lens design now happens for mirrorless models. Even if every camera had serious usability issues, people will always be drawn to the best glass they can get and build a system around it.
Yes, the AF systems for M-ILC tend to have better overall image coverage of sensors. Most of the time with SLR, you are getting mostly the middle area of the frame in varies forms.
All you fancy shmancy M-ILC users and your multiple AF points. When I was a youngster, we had to walk uphill both ways in the snow to autofocus with just ONE AF POINT on my F4! :oldfogey: :wiggle:
Re: Buying opportunity: Seeing this on camera/lens listings lately "Switching to mirrorless cameras" - mattkime - 02-03-2021
I've never learned the more advanced autofocus features.