Kisaha wrote:
Upon release the 7Riii was 3.499euros, and the NX500 799euros, if I remember right.
Seems about right.
For a "workhorse" 24-70, you have to pay 2.149euros in my country (upon release it was more than 500euros more expensive), and for the S 16-50S 2-2.8f lens was 1.199euros (it was much less a few months after release). Fuji 16-55mm is non stabilized 2.8f and is 1.199, right now. The S is the smaller and lighter and the only one stabilized. Start your set up from here.
https://www.sharkandpalm.com/camera-reviews/fuji-18-55mm-f28-4-the-best-fuji-video-lens
Fuji have a very nice lens for video which is available quite cheaply. As for Sony lenses, Sigma and Tamron both have cheaper alternatives than Sony's own lenses while still offering good performance. How much does cost really matter? If you're investing in lenses for video work, you should be able to break even without going the budget route.
The only issue you "had" was bigger bags...that is not a valid comparison at all, like comparing an everyday small, light and cheap car, with an expensive premium SUV.
The SUV is bigger, better, more, the small hatchback (maybe a Fiesta) usually drives well, economically, can turn, light and easy to steer, can park easily on a bigger city, but can take you on the high way too.
Some people own both types of car. If the larger model is no less comfortable, why not get it? I don't even use a strap with my A7RIII because it is so much more comfortable in my hand than my NX500.
Huge advantage, look how much the "premium" compacts from Fuji and Sony cost right now, and how much the NX500 with the 30mm pancake, or any other pancake.
NX500 was released 5 years ago. How much will Fuji's premium cameras from now cost in 5 years I wonder...
There are issues with F log, too... Fuji isn't prime time for video professionals, I said, they still need to polish things.
I think Fuji today is as capable as Samsung, if not more so. You mention video professionals, but Samsung is unlikely to ever be as revered as say the 5D Mark II, whereas Fuji is increasingly garnering recognition.
Samsung doesn't overheat, I assure you about that and regulars here have read tons of examples I have given them through the years. It is just unbelievable. Recording straight for 73minutes, it is not even a "hack" just an option inside the DEV menu of the camera. The hack is a different thing altogether, making NX cameras even better.
What you mean is Samsung doesn't have overheating protection. You can find people here who have had their cameras "mysteriously" stop working - I'm sure heat was implicated in some of those instances.
Fuji batteries are small, cameras drain too much power, it is even worst in the X-T4.
The NX500's battery isn't particularly impressive either. Besides, cameras can be powered externally.
You can't go and correct exposure shift on a days work, or your holidays if you are an amateur. In the first case you are just loosing valuable time and money, in the second, you just can't bother.
If you don't have time to edit your footage, perhaps a point-and-shoot camera would be more appropriate.
One of the issue is a LENS problem, the guy even does the same tests with his NX1 to prove how bad the Fuji issue is. These are all well documented facts.
It is a shortcoming of the lens which is not compensated for in software.
The 16-80 lens was supposed to be the go-to lens for video, it is expensive, it doesn't deliver.
It is clearly a stills-oriented lens.
If I want to use EF lenses, I buy Canon. and now that you mentioned it, the new Canon mirrorless, will probably be game changers for the whole industry, so why to buy a different Fuji until they fix their issues, and not a proper Canon or Nikon Z?
I primarily use EF lenses on my Sony and have no issue with AF performance for stills, and I hear Metabones has an adapter with decent video AF performance. I own an RP, which I no longer use. My Sony has better resolution and IBIS. Yes, Canon's next camera will match that, but it will likely include arbitrary limitations. It seems like you're simply being contrarian here and not speaking from experience. Canon and Nikon cameras have problems too. Panasonic's S1/S1H are cameras seriously oriented toward video.
We will see soon, I am waiting for this generation of Canon mirrorless and the second generation of Nikon Z, and probably I will decide between those two, and I am definitely keeping most of my NX, NX500 for sure, it is almost unbelievable small, light, nice looking, and capable at the same time!
I'm likely not keeping my NX500. Planning to switch to an NX2000 as I am not a fan of the heavy-handed always-on RAW noise reduction in Samsung's later models. Going to keep my NX Mini however, it's amazingly compact and the battery life is fantastic.
If I had bought any other brand in 2014, instead of NX, I would have changed multiple cameras and systems until now, I stayed NX, I am still using them professionaly (I have other equipement too), and I am waiting for the next mirrorless cameras to take me to 2025 and beyond.
Perhaps you would have gone through multiple systems, but the past is fixed.
I know people that changed NX at 2015/2016 and changed 2 or 3 different systems until now (m43/eos M then, Sony a and Fuji X later, some back to m43 because the GH5 was and is a real video tool), and they will change another one soon (most people will go Canon or Nikon, again).
There are also people who own multiple systems. M43 is limited in terms of video capabilities, this is particularly exemplified by the disparity between the GH5 and GH5S.
