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Posted: Fri Sep 15th, 2017 16:10
 
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I havent found the on/off/on issue but that doesnt mean it doesnt exist.

The AF settings are OK for me, I will try and dig out my settings.
A mirrorless will 'never' be as good as a good DSLR. (Never say never). I dont think the two different AF technologies provide a good crossover but there are advantages to both but the mirrorless has a moving target weakness.

Battery life, yes but -- just carry more batteries.

There are other items as well.

I will reassess when I have my D850 but the D500 and D850 will be faster Af than the Fujis but are heavier! Always a trade off.



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jk wrote:
I havent found the on/off/on issue but that doesnt mean it doesnt exist.

The AF settings are OK for me, I will try and dig out my settings.
A mirrorless will 'never' be as good as a good DSLR. (Never say never). I dont think the two different AF technologies provide a good crossover but there are advantages to both but the mirrorless has a moving target weakness.

Battery life, yes but -- just carry more batteries.

There are other items as well.

I will reassess when I have my D850 but the D500 and D850 will be faster Af than the Fujis but are heavier! Always a trade off.


This thread sort of discusses the issue of lock ups. I've only experienced it when the camera was ON, but idle and asleep, and wouldn't wake up. I got into the habit of switching it OFF and back ON again...sometimes it works, but other times I need to open her up.

https://www.fujix-forum.com/threads/x-t2-locked-up-during-shoot.63145/



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As someone who recently abandoned mirrorless and went back to the DSLR fold, a lot of the comment reflect my findings. I also hand hold, and hate neck straps. You can see my comments here:

http://blythestorm.com/2017/10/13/why-i-abandoned-mirrorless/



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Nice shots, Eric.

The quandry we face today :-) ...which equipment to buy :-)

I still maintain that the only real advantage in going mirrorless is to cut down on weight and size. Using old Nikon lenses on a mirrorless camera has no appeal to me at all...if I want the big stuff, I will grab the D500 - no mirrorless camera on the market can match it and it's only marginally heavier than a fuji xt2 (but quite a bit heavier and larger than an xp2)

For me, the x100 series is king but the xp2 is the emperor :-)...I made a mistake when I started buying the whole lens kit...why not get the "best" like the 16-55 vs the kit lens 18-55...well, the weight, stupid (I say this to myself) ... I take one or the other of these everywhere I go. Try as I might, I never came close to doing that with Nikon only.

I love the hybrid finders !!!!! but they haven't replaced the Nikons for everything and likely won't


just my stupid opinion :-)

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I have never had an issue with size. Weight yes. I moved to Fuji to reduce weight more than size, and then moved to Olympus which I found uncomfortably small. I loved the reduced weight, but I struggled to get a decent grip of the camera. In difficult terrain, and swapping lenses in the wet, you don't want fiddling about. Using gloves was impossible, and this meant I was going to struggle in winter.

I think the designers of mirrorless have got it wrong, the issue isn't size as much as weight. Small cameras are fine, but there is a limit to what is actually practical and that is the size of our hands and how they flex when in use. I am a relatively small female and I don't have large hands so heavens knows how some 6ft blokes get on with little digital OM cameras. I think Olympus know this because the top end one, the OM1, is significantly larger than the OM10 and OM5 bodies.

The Pro end lenses are also balanced to match that body, and again are larger. Still smaller than many Canon/Nikon/Pentax offerings of course, but I couldn't use an OM10 its just too fiddly.



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You may have a point on the weight v size issue. I wonder what a D600/750/500 would weigh, if they just stripped out the mirror and associated mechanism?

I remember the significant and noticeable change in weight between the EOS RT and the standard EOS 650, back in my Canon days. Same body and controls, Canon just fitted a 45deg pellicle mirror. It lost a half stop of exposure and the viewfinder wasn't as bright as a standard slr. But with today's high ISO sensors the lost exposures wouldn't now be an issue.....and frankly all EVFs are inferior to optical, so we are already being asked to accept lesser viewfinder clarity.

I've wondered for some time whether the manufacturers are merely trying to fill the compact camera gap that is being filled by phones? My wife's new phone has a 20mp camera that produces astonishing quality images.



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Recent rumours indicate that the Nikon mirrorless may be FF.
I certainly hope so.

https://www.dpreview.com/news/5515939934/rumor-nikon-s-full-frame-mirrorless-will-sport-an-all-new-z-mount



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Can't think of any features that it will have that would entice me to buy one. Too content with the D850:thumbs:



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D850 output is awesome.

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Sometime I'd like to get a used full frame Sony E mount for my older converted glass.



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