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You guys still haven't answered the question of which mirrorless camera I should get to replace my aging Canon DSLR.
Panasonic G9
GX9 is even smaller
You guys still haven't answered the question of which mirrorless camera I should get to replace my aging Canon DSLR.
I don't think you're understanding what I'm saying. Exposure in terms of image brightness as a function of focal ratio and time is merely a photographer's convention.No. Exposure is photons per unit area per unit time. Intensity is photons per unit area only. The advantage comes from greater area, not from a larger physical aperture at the same focal ratio. Do your dimensional analysis.
I would research these:No not often enough to matter. No
Good ergonomics are always desired. Video isn't a high on my list.
Hard to say without knowing you better: Some people are specialists and can live happily with just a single focal length, while others want "a bit of everything" from landscapes, kid's sports and recitals, to wildlife.You guys still haven't answered the question of which mirrorless camera I should get to replace my aging Canon DSLR.
Many years ago I briefly owned a Leica M3 rangefinder camera -- it was the most exquisite piece of mechanical equipment I've ever own. Being young & poor at the time, I traded it in on a Nikon F which was more practical but a long way from the same esthetic ideal.I am starting to develop Leica Lust
I am starting to develop Leica Lust
I have a circa-1958 Moscow 5 that is a ripoff of a Super-Ikonta, but it's format is 6x9 and it's not tiny. The coated Industar lens is actually pretty good, but cell-focus lenses are never up to the standard of base-focus lenses, unless your subject is 12 feet away. The Industar is certainly no worse than the typical Tessar. But if we remember it was made for contact prints (the unity gain of the photographic world), it's pretty good. Cameras with big enough negatives to display at actual size jump into a separate category just because of that. Somehow, though, I'm not that tempted to use it much.I caught the Lomography bug a number of years ago when many film cameras were selling for pennies on the dollar and I wound up with a modest Collection, which sounds lots better than calling it a "hoard". But lately, some items have become trendy again, and my feeling is that if people are paying sky-high prices for old cameras, they ought to get them from me.
One of my favorites is a prewar Zeiss 6x4.5 Ikonta folding camera with uncoated Tessar lens, the best they offered for it. It's not one of the fancier rangefinder equipped Super- or M-Ikontas, but it's more compact as a result, barely larger than the film it contains. The lack of coatings means reduced contrast, but gives it a certain character of it's own.
You must have a lot of money. First Leica, then Phase One. I'm jealous.Phase One people