The point is that you see much better what you're pointing your camera at, rather than having to guess for about 20 minutes.
Good answer if you like using old, no, correction, ancient gear! But Sony isn't much better with its full frame camera, the Sony A900 is also getting into the "ancient" category, although the new full frame Sony A99 is rumoured to be released shortly with all the latest bells and whistles!
I somehow don't think you'll be able to convince Canon users that the A77 is a good "low light" camera"! Even if DPR made adjustments for the points you make, I think the 7D would still come out well ahead in the low-light comparisons!
What I like using is gear that takes great pictures. The 7D does that. Only an idiot, no, correction, complete moron, would dismiss an excellent camera because it's been out for three years.
!!,--The point is that you see much better what you're pointing your camera at, rather than having to guess for about 20 minutes.
You can always turn off the autogain.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnqUzkls4jE&feature=channel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZiFjsV8MxA&list=UUA1ZngtB9928aQxhX7EXEjw&index=4&feature=plcp
That's a biggie in my book too.
You are effectively blind on one eye in low light for some time after using the EVF - it takes about 20 minutes to regain the same level of sight on the eye that was used with the EVF! So at night time EVF is a really dangerous contraption and you must not move for that 20 minutes if you are in an area where you need to be able to see with both eyes. If you are in your cozy bed at that time it doesn't matter but if you are on a hike in the mountains and you wanted to photograph star trails or similar subjects then you are screwed!
You ignored the context I gave in the first place! So it's you who is grossly out of line here!
Which is exactly the problem, you don't seem to get it, the subjects I talk about are not moving at a constant pace, they are accelerating or decelerating at various intensities, you must have live view to be able to track these subjects while shooting the series. There is no amount of practice that could compensate for the lack of live view while shooting the series!
Have you ever shot fast moving action? I'm still willing to bet that you never ever went near a race track or a bird colony or any other venue where the subjects may require proper tracking ability!
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It even is worse than shown, the viewfinder images were taken with a small sensor camera - which itself has limited dynamic range - and these already compromised views blow the viewfinder of the A77 out of the water... What good is a viewfinder that neither shows the scene in real time and doesn't manage to convey the important areas of the resulting photo. On an optical viewfinder you can learn how to judge the scene and you'll eventually know how to work around the limitation of only having a dynamic range of 10-12 EV in the final photo - but on the EVF you simply have no chance whatsoever!
Good post, but remember you mustn't mention the 7D's age on this forum, it still takes excellent pictures and doesn't need to be replaced any time soon!
don't you think that by your own statement this alone disqualifies you
cursory glance?? not exactly true - during three years of use I've shot
,Re: the first point - that is exactly why I raised it as the fact and its disclosure are relevant and important given the context of the OP's question. However I stand by the fact that people remain silent on the fact that on a mirrored camera it (the mirror) keeps flipping out of the way thus interrupting vision so you don't have a full real time track of what's going on either.cursory glance?? not exactly true - during three years of use I've shot
over 90 thousand RAWs with 7d; and since early 2012 another 10
thousand RAWs using the so called superior OLED EVF from Sony, so
I'm quite well familiar with all its limitations
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Hi Alastair, lighten up a bit, I was only kidding you know!! I realise that even an ancient camera can still take great pictures because I actually use one myself, that is, the full frame Sony A900. I would be happy to use the A900 for a few more years because it produces such superb results!
...and physiology of human vision too - I can assure you that at 8 fps
; we would need to wait for purely I have given the horrid thing a try! I hated every single moment I had to look at this OLED abomination!
I can't. It's lagging sufficiently behind reality to miss the important moments!
Again a very misleading comment. You are seeing far less than what the sensor sees because of the severely limited dynamic range of the OLED - it has so little capability to display dynamic range and the sensor in video mode doesn't provide as much dynamic range as you would like. The examples shown here do tell the whole story, for framing in situations where dynamic range exceeds 5-6 EV it's practically useless!
You obviously have no clue about this! The mirror returns fast and for long enough to allow perfect tracking of the subject because it provides a fully live view without any lag - on the A77 you see nothing at all that would help you in tracking a moving subject, even the lag the viewfinder introduces when not in slideshow mode is sufficient to lose track of your subject if it does move - it is very disorientating to notice the subject turning and only seeing this turn 0.05 or 0.1 seconds later, especially on subjects where you know that they will change direction at a specific position relative to you! Face it, for moving subjects the EVF is pure garbage!
Hasn't anyone noticed that the A77's lens Aperture has been stopped down to F/14 in this picture?. The A77's EVF is a live view of the scene, taking into account the shooting parameters chosen.
It's irrelevant.
Wrong again. The chosen aperture is not applied because the DOF preview button is not pressed - if the camera would apply the aperture the autofocus would fail because it is physically limited to apertures of f/5.6 or better!
