From: Godfrey DiGiorgi <[email protected]> On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 6:27 PM, Miserere <[email protected]> wrote: > On 29 November 2012 19:56, Tom C <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> You gotta admit that setting aperture on the >> lens is more fun than setting it on the body. > > Then maybe you should buy a Fuji Mirrorless...? :-p
> Why? Tom doesn't need to. He simply uses a nice Pentax lens on a > camera that gives him a bright TTL view without the flippy mirror in > the way. Even with the lens stopped down, most of the time. > I've been using SLR lenses adapted to TTL electronic cameras since > 2008. It works BETTER than most DSLRs. AF is mostly useless. That's true. In bright and normal light I really like the EVF. In low light, it gets noisy but still I can see somewhat of what I'm shooting. It's definitely no worse than an optical VF where you can barely see anything when shooting in low light. And as stated, I still get a pretty bright view even when stopped down. I also like the fact that the NEX automatically switches between LCD and EVF, sensing when my eye nears the viewfinder, and I can chimp in the viewfinder without having to take my eye away and review the image on the LCD. That means I can almost instantaneously fire another shot if I don't like what I see. Assuming IQ from the legacy lens is good on the body used, shooting on a 24MP+ body with a manual lens is little different than deciding to shoot medium format 15 years ago. Almost no medium format or large format camera was auto-focus and the benefit was largely dependent on the resolution/size of the medium being recorded upon. I don't necessarily need to buy into a new format lens like with medium format bodies (though I do have a number of E-mount lenses). Here I can do all that for really, not much more than what a Pentax DSLR costs, and unlike medium format, in a body size that borders on being a compact camera. Consider the NEX-7 has 4X the resolution of an *ist D. To be honest, it's been a while since I've used a manual focus lens aside from the FA/100 2.8 Macro in manual focus mode. I really enjoyed using the 40mm on the NEX. There was something about the tactile response of the lens, both in setting aperture and focus that made me feel more in control, more in charge of what was going on. Wahahahahaha! I liked my 16MP NEX-5 (lacking a viewfinder), but I find the 24MP NEX-7 a real joy to use and I can travel with a camera bag that is 1/6 the weight and 1/4 the size of what a DSLR kit would be. I'm not through with DSLR's but the NEX-7 is without a doubt the 'go to camera' at the moment. Tom C. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
