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Sosua
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noirdude: Good review! But I stay with my tamron 18-270 VC for street photo, the VC works as promised. It's just to expensive for a walk around lens, not to mention its weight too.
Keep it up!
Likely does OK on a 6mp sensor, but certainly does not appear to be able to keep up with the pixel pitch of modern APS-C chips - a shame, since its a new lens...
I presume the ratings are within its own category? (Reading the review and looking at the samples it looks like an 800gram lemon)
Would be interesting to see what the lens categories are.
Surely Nikon would be better placed creating useful enthusiast DX lenses to pump life into the format?
Keeping feet on the ground, probably something like the XE1 (Once RAW support is ironed out) but with the OMD IBIS and AF and a full suite of compact, high performance lenses.
Or a slightly more compact, lightweight version of the new Leica M with D4 like ISO performance and IBIS.
In other words, the technology already exists, just need to combine it...
Fantastic image mate - awesome stuff!
Pretty darn impressive for a small sensor compact - would like to see raw output as those jpegs are getting some pretty fine detail for the pixel pitch.
I can't help but feel this is a year or two late however with the rise of alternatives.
marike6: It great that Sony is expanding their lens line-up, and the 35 1.8 and the UWA zoom look interesting. Based on a few of the jpegs I'd say raw (or at least raw + jpeg) is more or less a requirement. Of course I have no idea is NR can be dialed down. If so, jpegs could possible be quite usable.
Still, the most interesting new mirror-less camera for me IQ-wise is the Fuji X-E1.
But for HDSLR video shooters, and for someone who want to buy into the highly adaptable E-mount system, the NEX-6 looks like a fine camera.
I agree on the proviso LR / ACR get the kinks out or processing...
Difficult to really tell of course, but the 35mm 1.8 looks pretty good - wide open and stopped down.
Impossible to tell with the 10-18mm unfortunately, with high ISO, wide open shots and no flat field stuff.
Looks OK in the ISO 400, 18mm 5.6 shot but JPEG NR isn't helping.
Look forward to more on these two lenses, if they are up to snuff, makes NEX so much more attractive.
kewlguy: I expected more 'bite' from a $2800 fixed lens camera. Seems like strong NR here, if not AA filter. The lens has excellent CA performance.
Very hard to determine from OOC Jpegs at unknown settings, but looks to me more like a weaker AA filter, given the finer details coming through even with Sony's traditionally larger radius in camera USM...
If you want 'bite' you want RAW samples.
Trollshavethebestcandy: I would rather buy the RX100, DP Merrill 1 an 2 for that money.
And what would you do in low light?
B-rad: Anyone who pays this kind of money for this needs their head examined. PERIOD.
Its a bargain compared to an M9 and Summicron!
Looks great, although proof will be in the wide open and low light pudding but no doubt it will deliver.
If you love 35mm, looks like a great tool.
Rah rah rah DXO rah rah rah, said my camera sensor was bad, rah rah rah I don't know how to interpret test data.
That panorama of the wharf / boats looks awesome! I use a GS3 and have been impressed with its capabilities - like how the iphone allows full rez stitched images.
Good EVF's are great - The only OVF's that 'look better' are on more expensive full frame DSLR's which cost $2K plus.
I recently went back to mid range OVF and its visually garbage even without the inherent advantages an EVF provides (Not to mention reduced size and mirror vibrations):
Composing in black and white
Live histogram and exposure preview
Manual focussing aids
Full time DOF preview
100% view / information and gridlines
Chimping on the EVF is awesome
OVF lovers mention the ability to 'match what the eye sees' - well considering your sensor isn't able to match that, I would suggest WYSIWYG is much more valuable for most users.
Sosua: Hmmm... these examples are not great.
If you really want an extended DR image, better off getting a Nikon, expose for the highlights then do some moderate shadow pulling.
You won't encounter the dramatic shift in tones to balance our at the edge of light and dark.
Thanks Kodachrome! - each to their own, I can appreciate people saying my images are a little too saturated for their tastes, but never quite had that reaction...
Oh well, Claudio's site is very cool, but where the tonality and saturation differs from my work, I cannot quite see - both are a slightly (but not overly) enhanced view of nature.
Peace
Sosua: Hmmm... these examples are not great.
If you really want an extended DR image, better off getting a Nikon, expose for the highlights then do some moderate shadow pulling.
You won't encounter the dramatic shift in tones to balance our at the edge of light and dark.
My Dpreview Gallery is a collection of technical example images. If actually you wish to critique my work,and are not simply trolling, please feel free to visit www.samwaldron.co.nz
Hmmm... these examples are not great.
If you really want an extended DR image, better off getting a Nikon, expose for the highlights then do some moderate shadow pulling.
You won't encounter the dramatic shift in tones to balance our at the edge of light and dark.
EmmanuelStarchild: I'd like to see how this compares with the Canon 18-135. I tried to click on Gallery, but it brought me here.
Ah, there's the gallery.
Yes - Camera IQ looks good, but that particular lens is horrific outside the central third of the frame. Truly awful.
brkl: That's pretty remarkable. As good as the best of APS-C it seems.
Louie, they mention shooting in that light due to the quality, temperature and angle of light.
Nothing to do with exposure and everything to do with aesthetics.
Think about it more artistically than technically.
Geoff is quite correct.
Hmmmm seems to simply be what many thought the 5D2 should have been.
Interested to see if Canon has improved shadow noise and dynamic range.
Still, high performance champs = D4 and high MP = D800/E