Canon VS Nikon VS Sony VS Fujfilm VS olympus OR OTHER ?
The biggest problem of any photographer's camera which company to choose?
( I personally use Nikon for years and I'm happy)
Wiecznie Zielony +1 for OTHER ;)
Grace Olympus :D actually I like Nikon too, that is what I used before I switched.
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It's depend which price you would or could pay!! and a lot of other things, the weight, with lenses you want, etc...
I choose the Sony ar2, it's an incredible camera, quite expensive (the lenses too) and now there are not a lot of lenses it will change in the futur, but the quality is really beautiful.I'm very happy with this camera.
Kazzi "sony has the most lenses for mirrorles" - lol nope :D I'd agree if we count in manual focus lenses, since they own the only full-frame mirrorless system, but considering AF lenses for now Olympus/Panasonic micro four thirds is the best developed system in terms of optics.
Richard Morwood
I used a Fujifilm XT-10 for a bit and looooooved it. I really really really want a Fujifilm XT-20.
Currently entry level Canon user. While it's great I want smaller body
Michał I think that the best camera is the one that is best to hold in your hand. The rest are small technical details.
Kazzi
"The most important thing in photography is between the viewfinder and occiput" ("Najważniejsze w fotografii jest między wizjerem a potylicą") - I've found this quote on lenstip.com (optyczne.pl) under one of the tests and completely agree since.
@Paweł took "one week old camera challenge" and shoot with his oldest Sony compact camera for a week... and those photos, of course, are worse than the others in terms of image quality, but they are decent pictures anyway, so it's not the camera that makes a photographer.
Kazzi
Since I work in cameras store for over five'n'a'half ^^ years now, I feel allowed to say some things about that subject, so buckle up your seatbelts, it's not gonna be a short post and I'm not gonna say it twice.
Every system has it pros and cons and it's important to know them while choosing your system, since changing it during Your journey with photography is quite expensive (but always possible).
Canon and Nikon are (along Pentax, but it's a minority - no offence, Pentaxians, I love those cameras) the only big DSLR systems on the market, with around 62:38 market share proportions (no idea why's that).
Both systems have their good lenses and their bad ones, for DSLR it's easiest to find used lenses, batteries and other stuff, they are third-party companies that make optics for all of them (Sigma <3, Tamron, Tokina, Samyang etc)... but they're bulky, heavy and with one leg still in the past era.
SLR cameras are developed for far over half a century, including major change with exchanging analogue film to digital sensor... so a switch from a 10-years-old model to the new one doesn't require reading this f_ckin manual again.
Also, these are systems where You always can buy a "higher model" with D5/1DX Mark II being the highest, reporteur ones with usable ISO "over 9000" ;) or over 12800/25600... they have the high-res models (5DS/S R, D810), really ambitious full-frame ones (D750, 5D Mark III/IV), amateur full frame (D610/6D, both need refreshing this year) and lots of APS sensor ones (stay away from Canon's 18mpix sensor, you have been warned ;) ).
If size, weight and price doesn't matter - it's a good choice for You... but they are also other options, so let's go further.
On the other hand, we've got mirrorless:
Sony: with full-frame A7 Mark II-serie in three versions - normal, R for resolution and S for sensitivity and 4K filming. Since this full-frame models launch, not even one E-mount (aps) lens was announced and their not-fullframe lens portfolio is pretty disappointing [six primes, half of them brighter than f/2, two constant aperture f/4 zooms (10-18 and 16-70... for 550/999 $, thans but no thanks)... and lots of different kit lenses incld. 18-105 for video... does it really seem like a serious system?].
Sony is mainly developing full-frame lenses - their own (normal ones and G Master serie) and the ones with cooperation with Carl Zeiss (Batis love, 85/1.8 is one of the best lenses I've seen) and other manufacturers and if You can afford them, don't hesitate, it's a really good system. Lots of manual focus lenses, AF samyang ones, BUT! if we're talking APS sensors, A5x00/6x00 cameras - the kit zoom, 16-50, is one of the worst pieces of optics I ever had a non-pleasure to work with. Yuck.
Fujifilm (shortened to Fuji): for me, the most cleverly developed system. They started with X100 APS compact camera and from it's sensor developed X-serie system.
From the very beginning, they skipped going full-frame and focused on a variety of lenses for APS-C format, but with 35mm equivalent chosen focal lengths, and there already is quite a nice variety of those Fujinon lenses - from wide angle, through nice standards (even their 18-55 "kit" has f/2.8-4 aperture and is really pleasently sharp) up to long-range telezooms.
I have to mention, that they produce their own X-Trans sensors, with a different pixel array than a standard CMOS Bayer filter mosaic (read more: google! especially from X100 and X-Pro 1 premieres over five years ago).
It results in quite pleasant colours, nice tonal range and no problems with moire, since with no need of low-pass filter, sensors themselves are very sharp.
Cons? Oh, well... until X-T1 and X-T10, autofocus system was... slow. Yeah, let's not go further, just look at Youtube comparisons with (for example) almost five years old E-M5. From X-T10 forward, there is a second (or third, depending on who you ask) era of Fujifilm AF system and all the newer bodies are quite pleasant to use. X-Pro2, X-T2 and (upcoming) X-T20 are a really "well-polished" cameras, so it's hard to find anything against them individually.
Also, there might be a quite variety of Fujinon lenses, but they are not too cheap - only 18 and 27 (pancakes f/2.8) and 23-35-(new)50 f/2 WR combo have a price tag below (or close to) 500$... at last You know what You pay for from their optics and build quality.
Canon EOS M? Nah. Still developing, five lenses across and M5 being almost as pricy as 80D? Nope. And I have absolutely no idea how, on earth, do they sell that amount of those cameras, where there are completely no leses, AF was dramatically slow (M3 is a step in a good direction, but still no comparison to A6000, M5 - at last it's really nice... but again, that price!)...it might be the CANON mark that sells itself automatically, although I really just don't get it.
Both Fujifilm and Sony E mounts (not to mention Sony's FE full-frame) suffer from one thing that cannot be changed, and it's name is physics. I'll skip Nikon 1, Samsung NX, Pentax Q, Leica or Hasselblad systems since I don't consider them worth further mentioning (various reasons, You might guess) and there is only one player left on the field.
Micro four thirds, designed by Olympus and produced by Olympus, Panasonic and many others (including Xiaomi, Konica-Minolta - yup, that company who over ten years ago sold it's photographic division to Sony, SigmaSamyangTamronTokina and many more, less or more)>
First mirrorless digital system, founded in 2008 (OMG, it's almost ten years). But it's time for another story, another post, now I'm falling asleep on the keyboard already.
Want to read more? :)
Romain
Great explanatory article...
I'm a Sony fan since I bought my first DSLR-A300. But after a year I bought a new SLT-A55, and this was was a whole new world for me.. and the start of my photography passion :-D
It was a camera where you get the most for your money.... that time it was fast, and the ISO sensitivity was great. And most of all... the A-mount lenses are not so expensive in comparison with other brands... Especially the possibility of using (cheap) Minolta lenses... was quite a benefit.
After almost 4 years of intense use... the camera stops working with displaying a "Camera Error" on screen... :-(
Repair would coast approx €300!
So, since June last year I bought a ILCA-77M2... and OMG... this takes my photography to the next level :-D
The ONLY thin I miss, is the GPS module of my old A55...
agnieszka bladzik you shoudl really start working on blog posts for tookapic :D
Szymon Maciejczyk to w którym sklepie konkretnie pracujesz @Kazzi ? :)
Kazzi AB Foto Kraków Bonarka KR4, ale tutaj występuję prywatnie :)
Kazzi well, I am ^^ and You can see the result here, it was a spontanous post...
Kazzi years of practice. And patience to say same things billions of times.
Bridget Braun A tool is just a tool :) It's how you use it!
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Rafal You didn't mention Hasselblad...maybe that one? Especially model H5D