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What swung it was the Fuji stuff felt a bit tiny in my hands, the Panasonic was an MFT sensor which I wasn't keen on, and I managed to get a used a6500 for £800ish, which was a very good price. I then picked up two Nikon lenses for £130ish (55mm 3.5f Macro lens and a 50mm f1.4) and grabbed an adapter. All in all I came in at under £1100 for a very good setup for film and photography. Price was too hard to ignore.
The only issue being that I had to download a hack for the a6500 to give me the English language option!!
I think I'm ruling out Fuji based on expense.
Although Sony is deemed king of low light, that's only in full frame sensors.
However, what sort of night photography do you do? If star trails, iso isn't that important as you just set long exposures. If you're freezing things and need shutter speed on your side, perhaps different.
If you have a 24mp crop sensor (I chose that as I know it, I shoot with a d7200 which has a 24mp sensor) and you export a photo shot at iso 12,800 to 6mp you get a great quality shot. Because reducing size averages pixels, the noise is largely eliminated. 6mp does decent prints, and is bigger than most websites will display (squarespace is limited to 2500 pixels on the longest side for example - a square would be about 6mp).
@Drew_TNBD has made a good point - he liked how the Sony camera felt, as well as the features. That's a big deal - as much as I love the fuji kit, when I compared to an a7ii I preferred the feel of the Sony. Then compared to a nikon d750 and the d750 trounced everything for handling and matched the a7ii for image quality in any light. It's all horses for courses, and it's a good idea to test some. Today I held an entry level canon and struggled to use it... I am too used to the nikon layout, and it's only subtly different!
@Drew_TNBD that's one hell of a deal! Even if you did need to hack it (lol).
Mrs Rocker has a compact film camera that is showing signs of having reached the designed obsolescent stage and anyway film processing is getting harder to find. So I checked the interweb and, without actually trying them in a shop, am looking at
Canon PowerShot SC620 HS
AlsoCanon PowerShot SX720 HS
The 620 sells for €250, the 720 for €350. Reviews seem to suggest the 720 is the better camera, well they would wouldn't they , but issues like physical size and ease of use come into the frame. The 620 looks like it will easily slip into a bag so it could all come down to that. The oft suggested Fuji X E2 sells for close to €1K in Ireland, so it is priced out of our league.Nil Satis Nisi Optimum
a bunch of youtubers and some just use a canon G7X and it's perfecrly fine for what it is. Casey Nestat used to use a Canon 80D because of the flip screen mainly. Lots of people now uses the Sony A7Rii because of the IQ and size for a FF set up (even though the lenses are hardly small or cheap).
Yeah, you can clap hands and sync but it's just an extra faff.
TBH my camera is on auto mode 99.99% of the time.
It's been great the last few months for high quality photos and videos. It's a Canon something or other.
My YouTube Channel
If you're interested I have a Canon 650D that I was going to keep as a backup. But if you're in the market, you could buy that for a cheap price. It's a great beginner camera and has two lenses with it. The kit lens and a nifty fifty style pancake lens.
I should think that's plenty to play with for the next couple of years!
If you buy the right lenses, some of them go UP in price.
Think...Canon 50/1.0, Canon 1200mm. Canon 200/1.8
They are expensive lenses in the first place but to buy one now you are looking at silly money. The latter 2 on the list are consider unicorns, not many around.
The 35mm dx is small, sharp and fun. You'll love it. Happy snapping!
One thing i noticed is that all the EVFs I tried, bar the one in the lumix G7, seemed to flicker a lot, I'm not sure I could get on with one. Is it something that varies person to person?
I hadn't noticed on the fuji second gen (eg xt1, xe2), Sony a7ii or Panasonic gx80.
But it could be a sensitivity thing maybe. Did you try them indoors? If so, you could have been witnessing the flicker of fluorescent lighting.
Don't worry. Take crap pictures. Then take more. Then keep taking them until things start getting better and you'll grow fast.