My "do all" camera is my EM1. It's not perfect in some situations, but I don't want to keep multiple systems. As in my balance, walk-around street photography and travel photography are more dominant than sports photography, then EM1 is my do-all. it's accompanied by my EPL7 which is my even-lighter carry-everywhere camera.
I *can* carry two D4 bodies too. I just don't WANT to. and while I CAN carry anything, I *practically* end up leaving my camera behind when it's too heavy. Maybe you have more free time than I do, but I'm only 40, and between work, 15-20 business trips a year, and kids and wife, I tend to do a lot of my photography in parallel to other things.
You don't need to patronize. I've owned sigma lenses in the past. Some were better than others. The Art line is indeed good, although I would be very careful of DXO grading as my main source of input. DxO is very concentrated on SHARPNESS. While sharpness is important, it is far from being the main interest in a good lens. Micro-contrast, rendering, bokeh, etc - are all factors which are sometimes much more important for the overall look of image. Leica lenses are far from being the sharpest lenses around, but the way they "paint" is fantastic.
The 35mm is indeed a good lens, though for street photography I would argue that it is a nightmare to use on crop. 52.5 is wayyyy too narrow FoV for street photography.
Having said that - I would hardly agree that the 18-35 is a good STREET PHOTOGRAPHY lens. Street photography calls for quick photography, with minimal hassle, sometimes from the hip. The only lenses good for this are prime lenses, preferably ones which offer fast AF from one hand and very easy MF from the other. Unfortunately, most good primes for Nikon/Canon are designed around FF focal lengths, making crop cameras a bit crippled in that respect (try to find a good 28FoV equiv prime for canon/nikon...). Today when I shoot street photography I use my PanaLeica 15 f/1.7. With 30mm FoV - it's perfectly wide for street photography. it's very quick to AF, but I can MF with Focus Peaking easily. Most importantly, it is stabilized (because my sensor is so) so even if I shoot handheld in less perfecty lighting - I would get good results.
Wow. that's a lot. The Mark I was 1399$ when it was new.
All right lets talk about my needs. I am an enthusiast, I don't make money with photography, it is just an (expensive) hobby for me, which I looooove.
I think we are all in the same boat.
So a typical 4 years old
(mine is 3.5...) Well - I think we need to do some "expectation setting" ;-). You are talking about D800/D750 and saying you're not getting 100% keepers. that's normal. When you should continuous shooting with continuous focus of difficult moving subjects, you will never get 100% keepers. CAF works by predicting movement and trying to keep track. If the subject changes, a frame might get lost.
Don't know about the A6300. But my friend owns the A6000 and his camera is doing remarkable good job in CAF+Face Tracking on tracking his kid. Having said that - that's STILL not 100%
XT2 - From what I've read - better, but don't expect too much. EM1M2 - Let's see what they got in play. I expect it to be better than XT2. but not as good as a proper sports DSLR.
It won't have the same C-AF performance as the D500, not even Canon cameras has that
I have pretty much every great lens in m43 stable, look in my signature. If you want to see fast FD, try Panasonic GX7. After EM1, you will be shocked. GX7 Face Detection is instant, and i mean instant, and it does not matter if the face is straight to the camera, backwards, upside down, to the side, glasses, no glasses, face takes small portion of the display, face take big portion of the display, it is instant, which helps me achieve a very high amount of keepers of my kid in SAF mode. I have both of these cameras. EM1 requires the face to be looking in your direction for FD to work properly. GX7 is just remarkable, in a different league.
But most of us wouldn't want to. I mean, think of the re-investment in lenses, most of which would be enormous. Lugging an equivalent kit could lead to hospitalization and long term physical therapy to recover from. No thank you, ma'am.
Having recently added the GX7 to my E-M5 (I), I'm happy to see your rating of it (and was otherwise happy with it --like its feel, ...).
Wow. You have a lot of great cameras and lenses in your stable.All right lets talk about my needs. I am an enthusiast, I don't make money with photography, it is just an (expensive) hobby for me, which I looooove.
My main subject for my photography is my always running (changing directions) and moving his head and never sitting still, 4 year old boy.....
he is almost never still and he is a challenge for most cameras out there
I sold my Sony A7RII - you know the jack of all trades camera, because its AF could not keep up with my child.
Fuji XT1 - could not keep up with him in SAF mode, in CAF mode, if you get the first photo in series in focus, there is a very good chance I would get the entire series in focus, but that was not consistent.
Nikon D800 and D750 - in 3D mode, I get more keepers, but still not a 100% percent keeper rate
Olympus EM1 - SAF - slow, face detect - very bad in comparison to Panasonic, CAF - actually not bad for my child tracking.
Panasonic GX7 - SAF amazing, almost all photos in focus, CAF - disappointing.
Panasonic GX8 - seems to be a tad slower than GX7, but faster than Olympus in SAF with face detection, CAF is not much better than GX7.
Canons through 5DM3 and 6D, 7D and 70D - not as good as Nikon D800 and D750.
All of the above I have tested and used and owned and shot thousands of shots with.
One camera I have not tested is Sony A6300. One problem with Sony is lenses are so freaking expensive.
I love mirorrless for travel. I recenlty left all my big cameras (including A7RII as lenses are huge) and went on two vacations just with m43 and it was such a great feeling, when you can pack 4 lenses in a bag and you don't even feel it!!!!
I hope between D500/A6300/XT2 and EM1M2, there will be a camera with autofocus which will acceptable to me.
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