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Exciting to see a global shutter in a consumer camera. Will be interesting to see if this is just the start of the proliferation of global shutters or if it's only ever going to be on the most expensive gear. Time will tell...
NZ Scott: Awesome - glad I got distracted and didn’t order my new MacBook Pro 16” yesterday!
I’m replacing a 10-year-old 15” MacBook Pro which has provided sterling service.
I’ve had good and bad experiences with Apple products, but can’t complain about the 20,000 hours I’ve gotten out of my MacBook.
That's about where I'm at. I have a 2015 MY Macbook Pro Retina (I refused to get the touchbar MBPs because I don't like dongle-life). My computer is fine, but slow. It's been a trooper. Solid and steady. I've never had good luck with my PC's, work or personal. They were all glitchy and slowed down drastically after just 2 years. My Macbook, though never fast, has always been steady and consistent. I just export or import my images when I go to bed, and everything is done by morning :D
I intend to upgrade in about 2 years. Hopefully, by then, there will be some crazy B&H sales like the M1 Macbooks currently have.
M Lammerse: The bag is well made, but the straps are not comfortable at all to carry for a long time especially when heavier loaded. So when need to carry a lot and long (during a day), look further
Lowepro is not the most fashionable brand but by means of comfort their straps of the ProTactic series are well made
I tried their protactic a long time ago and found it pretty nice (though I didn't end up keeping it). Funny enough though, my 1 Lowepro bag I do have has TERRIBLE straps. It was the gen 1 photosport 200 aw (bright orange). Great bag that could hold up to awful abuse, but those straps... ugh.
So I bounce between a Herschel bag I won at a work event with a camera cube stuffed in or a Tenba DNA 15 slim if I'm on a shoot, constantly changing lenses/cameras. The only bag that is even somewhat enticing to me is that Brevite Jumper for the big fact that it DOESN'T look look like a camera bag. If you guys do more reviews on bags, I'd love to see that one compared to the likes of this. My father-in-law has a gen1 and he loves it, but it's not my cup of tea.
daqk: This drives more ppl to go for <250g. Play small if that's what FAA wants ...
@nhr5005 even better. I'm in no rush, so the better those tiny products can get, the better it will be for me :D
daqk: This drives more ppl to go for <250g. Play small if that's what FAA wants ...
I'm really considering selling my gen1 Mavic pro and getting a Mini 3 Pro instead because of the weight threshold. I barely use my drone and all these laws and rules just make it less worth it for the odd drone shot I take in a year.
biggercountry: Nothing brings out the sour grapes around here like the iPhone. 😆
My Z6 still sleeps easily at night. With my iPhone.
Blasphemy!!!!!!! ;)
Thirdmort: Wow, I guess I moved systems at the right time. I was a CPS member for years but I wanted something different than they were offering at the time (EOS R just released). I got conquested by a Sony marketing guy right after having a disappointing trial with the EOS R. So with the conquest and student discounts, I made out like a bandit on an a7iii and a couple of lenses all for just a little more than the R6 alone would eventually sell for.
I'm really disappointed that Canon users wont get to enjoy the likes of Tamron and Sigma. I the Tamron 24-70 2.8 VC was my main lens on my 6D for years. I loved that combo and I'm loving my Sigma on my a7iii. I really do think a robust 3rd party lineup is healthy for an ecosystem.
Thankfully that 5D4 is a pretty good camera as long as you don't care about video. I shot one for a wedding and was pretty great. It's just a chunker of a body though. For that low price of entry, you might as well have stayed. For me, my gear was pretty abused and it was time to upgrade a few lenses and body, so the timing worked out great.
If you don't need the latest video features, AF tracking, or don't mind the size of DSLRs, there are lots of great deals to be had on the used market.
Wow, I guess I moved systems at the right time. I was a CPS member for years but I wanted something different than they were offering at the time (EOS R just released). I got conquested by a Sony marketing guy right after having a disappointing trial with the EOS R. So with the conquest and student discounts, I made out like a bandit on an a7iii and a couple of lenses all for just a little more than the R6 alone would eventually sell for.
I'm really disappointed that Canon users wont get to enjoy the likes of Tamron and Sigma. I the Tamron 24-70 2.8 VC was my main lens on my 6D for years. I loved that combo and I'm loving my Sigma on my a7iii. I really do think a robust 3rd party lineup is healthy for an ecosystem.
ProfHankD: Most of the upcoming sensor tech I'm aware of (as of the Electronic Imaging 2023 conference) is:
1. Subwavelength sensels to pack higher resolutions into tiny sensors. This includes innovative methods for "wasting" fewer photons: CFA (color filter array) filters typically absorb 2/3 of the incident photons. Perhaps the wildest I saw involved essentially sorting photons by wavelength at each pixel site so that separate detectors for each band could fit within each tiny pixel site -- a potential alternative to Foveon.
2. Tonal quality of sensors is pretty close to some physical limits, but temporal quality is way off: there are various methods that improve temporal resolution. Scene appearance is sampled using light, which is stochastic (random and noisy). Eric Fossum's QIS (Quanta Image Sensor), my TDCI (Time Domain Continuous Imaging), etc., use multiple samples over time to obtain better estimates of scene appearance and how appearance evolves over time.
Man, if someone could reliably produce color sensors that don't need CFA's, that could be huge! I've never shot a foveon sensor camera (they're so rare), but the idea behind it is so neat to me. It'll be interesting to see if any breakthroughs will happen in the next 10 years or if we'll have to wait longer.
Make Photography Great Again: Got the Samsung NX1 in 2014. Haven't really felt any cameras in a similar price range have really been worth an expensive switch until maybe this year, and even then, there are tradeoffs. I hadn't realized how spoiled I was to get a camera for less than $1500 (got mine for $1100 refurbished) that already had h.265, 28mp with 15fps mechanical burst with continuous AF with perfect ergonomics.
Samsung was smart to exit the camera industry. But I can only imagine what it would have pushed other companies to do had it stayed. An electronics company pushing the archaic camera companies to modernize would have been great - Sony has already done that with AF and what they offered in the A7 III.
The a7iii AF performance was what really pushed me to upgrade from my 6D. IQ is basically the same (sure there's 4 more MP and more dynamic range), but the quality of life improvements were what sold me.
I think that, barring a major tech change, my next camera will be upgraded for more quality of life improvements, not IQ. Better screens, better burst rates, better read rates, better handling, etc...
wjan: As a long-time Capture One user, I find the review pretty much spot-on.
The only thing I would maybe add is this: Capture One benefits greatly from a powerful graphic card and SSD storage. The program may feel otherwise sluggish on lower-tier hardware.
And there is a way to reduce the cost of the perpetual license: sometimes camera shops run promotions, where you can get like 50% rebate or even more. I've got my perpetual v23 license for just 99€ as a combined purchase with another piece of gear. And I do not upgrade every year.
I paid $160 for v20 on a B&H sale. If there are sales like that in the future, I may upgrade, but I've been fine with what I have for now at least.
Jon555: Seems odd in all that you didn't mention how poor the noise reduction is compared to DXO and probably the new Adobe denoising tool?
Also the DXO lens profiles can do amazing things, like selective sharpening and much CA fixing, but the simpler ones C1P uses are very basic in comparison.
I have a slightly old C1P (gave up upgrading when the annual update was a less-good pano tool and a less-good HDR tool than I already had (in PtGui Pro/MS ICE and AuroraHDR/HDR Projects Pro).
Also the latest DXO and the last perpetual Lightroom (really mostly for the Color-Cheecker and Negative Lab Pro).
Price differences...
Capture One Pro:
v11 full £200
v12 upgrade £126.65
v20 (aka 13) upgrade £107.10
v21 upgrade £139.30
Total = £573.05
Passed on v22 upgrade at £199
DXO:
PL1 Elite upgrade (2017, new name for OpticsPro) £55.00
PL2 Elite upgrade (2018) £54.99
PL3 Elite upgrade (2019) £34.99
PL4 Elite upgrade (2020) £49.99
PL5 Elite upgrade (2021) £44.50
PL6 Elite upgrade (2022) £65
Contd.
For me, it went LR6 to C1 20 $158 (BH super sale) + Affinity Photo $25 (also sale) back in 2020.
I haven't upgraded anything (other than some lenses) since. I'm one of the few who hold onto the software so long between upgrades that it doesn't make financial sense to do a subscription. Sadly, I have few options going forward...
When I upgraded to the Sony a7iii, Adobe was already on subscription and the a7iii wasn't in the camera raw list on my version of Lightroom. So instead of constantly converting to DNG, I decided to try CO. There were a few pros and cons I saw.
Pros: I really enjoyed the look of the images I was getting on the same file. They had more pop with less effort than in Lightroom. I did some comparisons and the red channels really popped compared to LR. The load time between images was also WAY faster than LR. It was significant. Then there was the perpetual license.
Cons: Usability. The interface is nowhere near as nice as LR. The library mode in LR is far and away better vs C1. The customizability means a steep learning curve to get it exactly how you want and even then, there arent as many feasts as LR.
So I've been happy with the software since, but now that there's no new perpetual license and so few updates, Adobe, sadly looks enticing again... (Whenever I need to upgrade again).
Ah northern Michigan. Nice place for drone photography.
I've been eyeing the G1 since it came out, but with this announcement, I'm very glad I didn't take the plunge. This has me very excited!
TillmanB: Wow. This article really spoke to me, a lot of parallels, especially working in camera stores and having someone walk in and ask to see the best camera clearly with the thinking that a good camera automatically makes good photos. Telling someone to take some classes, read some books, and practice the ideas and techniques they learn about was a far less popular (and profitable) answer than "This camera here has X amount of scene modes, just set it for what you're shooting and your photos will come out great!". Even if you do explain the ins and outs and how they can be a better photographer, someone else will sell them a shortcut in the form of some new gear.
I definitely have spent many years chasing after newer, more technologically advanced gear, and now I'm back to using the cheapest old pro level gear I can find. It was good for someone to make a paycheck with 10 years ago, it's good enough for me to shoot vacation photos and pictures of my kids now.
I think out of all the gear I've bought over the years, the 1 time that buying new gear really upped my quality was when I went from a Canon T2i + kit lens to Canon 6D + Tamron 24-70 VC. I was immediately free to shoot at higher ISOs, shoot night-scapes, and it motivated me to work harder in the workshops I was taking at the same time. Everything else since has just been "something different"
Totally agree about the importance of classes and learning though! I always joke that it would be fun to work at a camera store part-time for retirement
ebarak71: Lucky you, it is just photography. I'm straggling on top of that with G.A.S related to guitars (electric, and the peripheral equipment), mountain bicycling (and the peripheral equipment), computers (and the peripheral equipment) and more…
My older brother has somewhere around 13 guitars. Each of them costs as much as an L lens. I'd have quite the kit if I spent what he does. But he's single with a great job, so he's got way more disposable income than me.
Hobbies are just super expensive ha
Thoughts R Us: People spend money on all sorts of things they don't need. It could be designer clothes, jewelry, cars, motorcycles, golf, etc. And that's before we get to talking about blowing money on bad habits like excessive drinking, smoking, etc.
People shouldn't feel so guilty about photo gear. It's actually a cheaper hobby than many other choices out there. It's not destructive, and it actually encourages an appreciation of the beauty of life around us.
@Thoughts R Us
About the other hobbies. I work in automotive engineering and am a car guy. I have many friends who spend THOUSANDS upon THOUSANDS on car stuff. Track days, mods, wheels, tires, fixing old cars, it's a massive money pit. It seriously makes photography look cheap, like orders of magnitude cheap.
I also remind my wife this fact when I'm buying a new lens haha
Thanks for the article! Really enjoyed it!
I have similar rules to you. I try to only spend on what I've earned from gigs (weddings, engagements, portraits, etc) or birthday presents to myself no more expensive than I would have spent on other things. I also tend to trade in old gear for whatever I'm feeling I need at the time. For example, I ended up trading my much loved, but less used Canon 35mm 1.4L II for a Fuji X100V. The 35 was my favorite lens ever but after switching to Sony (more G.A.S.), it just wasn't used anymore. Now my Fuji is used every day.
Even now, I'm feeling the desire to trade in my adapted Canon 70-200 f/4 for something like the Tamron 70-180. I'll probably eventually do it, but I think I've calmed down my G.A.S. from their heights when I was single without kids. Though I do fully plan to use "Hey I need this new lens to shoot our kid's sports" as an excuse one day :D