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Massive Kyoto station at night
This massive ultra-modern structure seemingly so out of place in ancient Kyoto is an amazing convenience to me the tourist!
Holding on to nostalgia just for nostalgia's sake while forsaking the current is not very progressive.
The slew of new photographic gear in the pipeline waiting to be announced heralds a real wind of change coming.
It is clear that Mirrorless is gaining prominence despite how much diehard DSLR users like to keep talking down about Mirrorless. It’s an understandable human condition, resistance to change and even hostility to all things new, including even camera menu systems! Furthermore, when you are so heavily invested in DSLR gear, a move to Mirrorless is very costly and again it’s typically human to deal with the dissonance by entrenching one’s preconceived views even deeper and go to the extent of dissing all things Mirrorless. It’s entertaining recently to see a diehard DSLR user claiming that Sony must have cut corners (quality & durability) in order to make the FE400mm f2.8 GM so much lighter than his relatively new Nikon AF-S 400mm f2.8 FLE! He failed to see the humor when someone rightfully rebutted that by his (flawed) logic, Nikon’s 1st version of the 400mm f2.8 should be better than his latest FLE version since that older lens was much heavier!
The realities are as follows. Nikon appears to be on the brink of announcing their FF Mirrorless bodies (possibly with IBIS & 9fps!) with Canon not far behind.
Meanwhile lightweight supertele lenses are finally coming onto the market with the announcement of Nikon’s 500mm F5.6E PF VR (rumored at just 24cm long).
It’s actually a smart move by Nikon to make light superteles with f5.6 making it physically shorter (reduced torque) and even lighter with sensors as good as they are now and at 500-600mm, you’ll typically stop down a little for better subject DOF from f4 anyways. Personally I can always sacrifice a stop of shutter-speed for a stop of light and besides, who bothers to shoot BIF in low light?
So the Nikon Mirrorless adaptor will be complex and expensive (duh!) but like Sony’s LA-EA4 adaptor, it will likely be suboptimal as the translucent mirror within robs fine details and at least ½ a stop of light.
Nikon’s Mirrorless with IBIS however will mean my Nikon G Primes will be stabilized including my 24-70mm G zoom but I doubt my 70-200mm f4 VR will make any difference as very likely only new Mirrorless lenses will have dual-sync IS. Hopefully the future 600mm f5.6 PF VR (patent already registered) will be made in the new Nikon Mirrorless mount!
Exciting times!
Massive Kyoto station at night
This massive ultra-modern structure seemingly so out of place in ancient Kyoto is an amazing convenience to me the tourist!
Holding on to nostalgia just for nostalgia's sake while forsaking the current is not very progressive.
The slew of new photographic gear in the pipeline waiting to be announced heralds a real wind of change coming.
It is clear that Mirrorless is gaining prominence despite how much diehard DSLR users like to keep talking down about Mirrorless. It’s an understandable human condition, resistance to change and even hostility to all things new, including even camera menu systems! Furthermore, when you are so heavily invested in DSLR gear, a move to Mirrorless is very costly and again it’s typically human to deal with the dissonance by entrenching one’s preconceived views even deeper and go to the extent of dissing all things Mirrorless. It’s entertaining recently to see a diehard DSLR user claiming that Sony must have cut corners (quality & durability) in order to make the FE400mm f2.8 GM so much lighter than his relatively new Nikon AF-S 400mm f2.8 FLE! He failed to see the humor when someone rightfully rebutted that by his (flawed) logic, Nikon’s 1st version of the 400mm f2.8 should be better than his latest FLE version since that older lens was much heavier!
The realities are as follows. Nikon appears to be on the brink of announcing their FF Mirrorless bodies (possibly with IBIS & 9fps!) with Canon not far behind.
Meanwhile lightweight supertele lenses are finally coming onto the market with the announcement of Nikon’s 500mm F5.6E PF VR (rumored at just 24cm long).
It’s actually a smart move by Nikon to make light superteles with f5.6 making it physically shorter (reduced torque) and even lighter with sensors as good as they are now and at 500-600mm, you’ll typically stop down a little for better subject DOF from f4 anyways. Personally I can always sacrifice a stop of shutter-speed for a stop of light and besides, who bothers to shoot BIF in low light?
So the Nikon Mirrorless adaptor will be complex and expensive (duh!) but like Sony’s LA-EA4 adaptor, it will likely be suboptimal as the translucent mirror within robs fine details and at least ½ a stop of light.
Nikon’s Mirrorless with IBIS however will mean my Nikon G Primes will be stabilized including my 24-70mm G zoom but I doubt my 70-200mm f4 VR will make any difference as very likely only new Mirrorless lenses will have dual-sync IS. Hopefully the future 600mm f5.6 PF VR (patent already registered) will be made in the new Nikon Mirrorless mount!
Exciting times!