02-03-2021, 05:13 PM
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:
