TheWintermute
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Ideally I would like to have one mirrorless body as my main all-around camera, one compact camera that is always with me, and one DSLR for nostalgia. I’m not ready to give up the DSLR just yet because it’s such a distinct shooting experience, I would for sure miss it.
Also, my main camera has to have top-notch weather sealing because I live in a very rainy place and shoot on the street.
A few years ago I had a reasonable kit: a Nikon Df, a Sony A7c and a Ricoh GRIII. However, I didn’t trust the weather sealing much on neither A7c nor the Df, also the A7c’s super loud mechanical shutter really annoyed me. Then I bought an Olympus E-M1 II for the weather sealing, quiet shutter and awesome IBIS.
The Olympus was awesome outside in the weather and the Sony became my camera for good weather and indoors. However, over time I became a bit frustrated with Olympus’ fiddly controls, lousy EVF and mediocre image quality, so I thought I would replace it with a Nikon Z6 II. I bought the Z6II but it didn’t fully replace the Olympus because with the Z system you have to choose between lenses that are compact and lenses that are properly weather sealed. I trust the Z6 II in the rain with an S-series lens but not with the cheap 40mm f2, but all the S-series lenses are huge, so when I need a camera that is both reasonably compact and weather-sealed I still reach for the Olympus with 12-45 PRO lens.
At that point I had too many cameras already but I was bored and I bought myself a Nikon D850. This DSLR is vastly superior to my Df in every way, but the Df is small and cool, so I kept both.
Then I wanted to be able to make a better use of my Sony lenses and the A7c with its flip out screen, tiny viewfinder and loud shutter was limiting on the street, so I swapped it for an A9 - what an awesome camera that is: super quick autofocus, good viewfinder, flip up screen.
Anyway, now I have 3 mirrorless systems instead of 1 and 2 DSLRs instead of 1 and on top of that I’m really tempted to get a Fuji X100VI because I love the hybrid viewfinder experience…
Nikon doesn’t fit the bill as my main and only camera because of lack of small but good lenses with good weather sealing, but I don’t want to sell it because it’s an awesome camera and works great with my F-mount glass when I don’t care about size.
I don’t want to sell the Sony because of the amazing autofocus and because I love my Sony lenses: the Zeiss 35 2.8 and 55 1.8, the sigma 45 2.8 and the samyang 75 1.8, but none of my lenses are weather sealed, so I can’t use the Sony on rainy days and I don’t trust the body’s weather sealing much anyway.
I don’t want to sell the Olympus because it works great when I need a smaller weather sealed camera, and also there is something about Olympus that I love, I guess the build quality and design, although it’s a very quirky camera that makes me think way more than it should.
On the DSLR side I’m stuck with two bodies because the Df and cool and compact but the D850 is a much better camera.
I’m drowning im cameras and lenses at this point and I really want to downsize but I just really don’t know how.
Also, my main camera has to have top-notch weather sealing because I live in a very rainy place and shoot on the street.
A few years ago I had a reasonable kit: a Nikon Df, a Sony A7c and a Ricoh GRIII. However, I didn’t trust the weather sealing much on neither A7c nor the Df, also the A7c’s super loud mechanical shutter really annoyed me. Then I bought an Olympus E-M1 II for the weather sealing, quiet shutter and awesome IBIS.
The Olympus was awesome outside in the weather and the Sony became my camera for good weather and indoors. However, over time I became a bit frustrated with Olympus’ fiddly controls, lousy EVF and mediocre image quality, so I thought I would replace it with a Nikon Z6 II. I bought the Z6II but it didn’t fully replace the Olympus because with the Z system you have to choose between lenses that are compact and lenses that are properly weather sealed. I trust the Z6 II in the rain with an S-series lens but not with the cheap 40mm f2, but all the S-series lenses are huge, so when I need a camera that is both reasonably compact and weather-sealed I still reach for the Olympus with 12-45 PRO lens.
At that point I had too many cameras already but I was bored and I bought myself a Nikon D850. This DSLR is vastly superior to my Df in every way, but the Df is small and cool, so I kept both.
Then I wanted to be able to make a better use of my Sony lenses and the A7c with its flip out screen, tiny viewfinder and loud shutter was limiting on the street, so I swapped it for an A9 - what an awesome camera that is: super quick autofocus, good viewfinder, flip up screen.
Anyway, now I have 3 mirrorless systems instead of 1 and 2 DSLRs instead of 1 and on top of that I’m really tempted to get a Fuji X100VI because I love the hybrid viewfinder experience…
Nikon doesn’t fit the bill as my main and only camera because of lack of small but good lenses with good weather sealing, but I don’t want to sell it because it’s an awesome camera and works great with my F-mount glass when I don’t care about size.
I don’t want to sell the Sony because of the amazing autofocus and because I love my Sony lenses: the Zeiss 35 2.8 and 55 1.8, the sigma 45 2.8 and the samyang 75 1.8, but none of my lenses are weather sealed, so I can’t use the Sony on rainy days and I don’t trust the body’s weather sealing much anyway.
I don’t want to sell the Olympus because it works great when I need a smaller weather sealed camera, and also there is something about Olympus that I love, I guess the build quality and design, although it’s a very quirky camera that makes me think way more than it should.
On the DSLR side I’m stuck with two bodies because the Df and cool and compact but the D850 is a much better camera.
I’m drowning im cameras and lenses at this point and I really want to downsize but I just really don’t know how.
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