The mirrorless Sony/Fujifilm choice right at the moment is pretty clear: Fuji is ahead on ergonomics and lenses; Sony on sensor size. So if you want to print really big, you probably need the Sony. Also, they’ll eventually catch up on the lenses. But maybe that’s not such a big thing, since anyone reading this is gonna be slapping on old Pentax glass, which I assume works as brilliantly on the Sony as it does on the Fuji. I find the 16M Fuji files slow already on Lightroom and have no interest in more bits, but I’m hooked on the Fuji ergonomics - see https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2013/10/18/Fufifilm-X-E1 - and on that wonderful EVF.
SLRs are dead to me; just too big and heavy. On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 2:19 PM, Zos Xavius <[email protected]> wrote: > Pentax could learn a whole lot from Fuji about how to implement an > EVF. What they have done is pretty compelling. I would really like to > see Pentax work on a quality mirrorless system if this is the kind of > cool stuff we can look forward too. If I had a lot of cash I would be > kind of interested in the XT-1 and A7. > > On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 4:20 PM, Mark C <[email protected]> wrote: >> Nice shots, though I hope the arrow missed the bird's nest.... The portrait >> of Glen is excellent. >> >> So - the old school split screen focus assist is a split screen simulation >> in the EVF? That's cool... >> >> Mark >> >> >> >> On 8/31/2014 6:43 PM, Tim Bray wrote: >>> >>> Oh, the manual-focus aids on the X-T1 are pure voodoo magic. You can >>> have the basic does-it-look-sharp, or you can have focus-peaking >>> sparklies, or you can have split-screen like Dad’s rangefinder. Or >>> you can have dual mode, with a large-ish version of the image using >>> focus-peaking with a little miniature split-screen image off to the >>> side, an enlargement of the focus point. >>> >>> I normally use the sparklies, because they give you DoF too. Here’s >>> how great it is: When I’m sitting at my cabin looking out over the >>> ocean with the Tokina 400mm strapped on, as I turn the focus ring I >>> can see the in-focus sparkly region sweep in or out across the >>> wave-tops. Of course this only works because of the huge brilliant >>> EVF. Which, by the way, flips the whole UI sideways when you go into >>> portrait mode. >>> >>> On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 12:34 PM, Darren Addy <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> Cool stuff, Tim. >>>> >>>> When you say "manual focus assist" what are you referring to? >>>> Something beyond the AF blink/beep we have on the Pentax DSLRs? >>>> >>>> On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 2:19 PM, Tim Bray <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> In which I screw three different lenses, 2 from Pentax (the >>>>> focal-length difference between the 2 is 350mm), onto the Fujifilm >>>>> X-T1: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2014/08/03/Lensing >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> - Tim Bray (If you’d like to send me a private message, see >>>>> https://keybase.io/timbray) >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> 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. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Photographers must learn not to be ashamed to have their photographs >>>> look like photographs. >>>> ~ Alfred Stieglitz >>>> >>>> -- >>>> 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. >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> --- >> This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus >> protection is active. >> http://www.avast.com >> >> >> >> -- >> 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. > > -- > 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. -- - Tim Bray (If you’d like to send me a private message, see https://keybase.io/timbray) -- 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.
