Gear nonsense

Supposedly a Canon FF mirrorless announcement next week. EF mount is the rumour. That might be the first time they've truly snookered Nikon in a decade.

https://www.canonrumors.com/canon-eos-r-full-specifications/

thinkface

Looks kinda nice. But the EF mount rumour was false... RF/EF adaptor doesn't look too chunky and I imagine anyone hiring out this thing would throw one in the box. Which is the only way I'll get to play with one. Hope it's better than the EOS-M bodies which don't focus well at all with regular EF lenses.

I only just bought a 2014-vintage Fuji mirrorless (for half the price of Nikon's Z-mount 50mm), which is great fun with old Canon FD primes, so I'm happy to stay several years behind the bleedin' edge.

Ooh, Canon EOS R takes the same battery as my 6D? That's a big saving right there. ;)

I pulled the trigger on a full frame after a year of aps-c. A Sony A7. Only shot about two rolls so far. The extra detail is nice but it feels equal to the aps-c in terms of capturing light and color. I don’t like the weight and size of the thing despite it being mirrorless.

The only reason I'd get a full frame is if I needed to shoot by candlelight, or have eyelash thin depth of field. One loses an f-stop worth of these with APS-C, and two with μ43.

When I double up at events (two bodies: 6D, 70D) I always wince at little when I'm having to push the APS-C body up beyond ISO3200. It just can't really hack it up there the way the FF body can - I know I'll have much less latitude with the RAW in post without getting into the realm of plasticky noise reduction. I'm sure the 70D isn't state of the art wrt high-ISO for crop sensors in 2019 (Canon generally isn't), mind, and it's still pretty good.

Another shoot, another discovery that my F stop was on 16 the entire time. F

Sold all my canon stuff and went a9ii. Limited use over the last few days but it’s pretty amazing. I got tired of waiting for canon to come out w something as obviously good as the A7 line and decided to go all in.

...I didn’t think I’d be as amused with the idea of an optional asp-c crop function but here I am trotting around at 150mm

After shooting for three years with APS C I finally bought a full frame, a Sony a7 ii. Taking it out today to break it in a bit

(With some cheap 35 mm / 2.8 glass)

There I was upthread speculating about the EOS R four years ago. Now I've got one.

I had to sell a lot of stuff to fund it (and it's a used body, but in perfect nick). The drawer full of gear I acquired 7-8 years ago when I thought I really might make a go of photography as a side-line was getting me down; also felt a twinge in the shoulder every time I thought about the big, heavy zooms. So, after a false-start (shipping everything to one place only for half the stuff to fail their inspection), I dragged a bag of stuff into town and traded up (or sideways).

So now it's just the EOS R, plus a couple of super-lightweight lenses (16/2.8, 50/1.8), and my old EF-mount macro and portrait primes. It's been pretty great so far. Just need to get out and do more things.

Here's a little sequence showing off the face-/eye-tracking (local arts festival, pop-punk kids)...

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52377666270_975901cf05_b.jpg

50/1.8???

That sequence was the 135 ;)