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Seeing this in various online listings and ebay lately:
"Switching to mirrorless cameras"
"Switching to Canon mirrorless"
"Switching to Sony mirrorless"
"Switching to Nikon Z"
I am not switching yet, I might add a Z6 now that the used price is starting to dip below $1k but my old fashioned DSLR work great. I am seeing people dumping perfectly good lenses and I have to hold myself back from all the temptation of snatching up all these delicious unwanted/unappreciated lenses.
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Too bad we can't bring SLR glass to these new mirrorless cameras natively, without a layer of klunkiness that adapters bring. Is that really a technical limitation, or a just-because-we-can?
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Acer wrote:
Too bad we can't bring SLR glass to these new mirrorless cameras natively, without a layer of klunkiness that adapters bring. Is that really a technical limitation, or a just-because-we-can?
Yeah, I wish it was a seamless transfer. I think it has something to do with the way SLR lenses are designed with the distance from the film/sensor as opposed to mirrorless. Seems like the adapters make up the gap that used to be occupied by the mirror assembly and it's range of movement.
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Perhaps I should sell now while the prices are still good. Or wait until the vintage craze hits in, what, 15 years?
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Acer wrote:
Perhaps I should sell now while the prices are still good. Or wait until the vintage craze hits in, what, 15 years?
That is the conundrum facing some SLR owners. The M-ILC is full speed ahead now that Canon and Nikon are getting serious. Sony has been ludicrous speed because they didn't care about protecting their SLR line.
I have to admit that reading about the Canon R5. R6 and Sony offering has my attention. Ultimately, I may end up with the D850 as my only DSLR Nikon for my 400mm and use another system for M-ILC if Nikon doesn't get their act together.
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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?
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Whats the motivation for switching? Does it result in better photos? Lighter equipment?
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I used some Canon lenses with my Sony A7III using the Sigma adapter. I had no issues with the adapted lenses.
In fact, a lot of Sony mirrorless camera users are buying adapters to use old manual lenses with their cameras with really good results.
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Whats the motivation for switching? Does it result in better photos? Lighter equipment?
The gear is somewhat lighter and the bodies tend to be less bulky. Me, I love a full grip of a Canon 1D series or Nikon D3/4/5/6 grips.
For some Canon and Sony M-ILC, there are some features available at a lower price than what is on comparable SLR models. These things are typically higher frame rate and less hassle for using video features.
Some people prefer the in body image stabilizer where the sensor moved to offset user movement. SLR for Canon, Nikon, and some Sony use in less stabilizing. This is incredibly useful as macphanatic point out with adapted lenses. An old adapted Nikon, Pentax, Canon manual focus lens is now stabilized on a Sony M-ILC body.
