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[Wazzerphuk]

But all the weight is in the wrong place? (e.g. not in your hands, it's in front) The centre of gravity will be further away from you than normal, which means the weight will pull on you more.

 

[old.user4556]

I'll let you know tomorrow

 

[Wazzerphuk]

Of course it wouldn't be a problem for me since I'm used to handling my massive manjunk, but I worry for you Scots.

 

[old.user4556]

I'm 100% deep fried, carbon fibre haggis.

 

[Wazzerphuk]

So... tough and shrivelled?

 

[old.user4556]

As in:

(NSFW)

Spoiler

 

[caLLous]

Dislike is not strong enough.

 

[old.user4556]

One you see, you cannot unsee!

 

[TdC]

EAT MY L BITCHES

ooh you bought it?

 

[old.user4556]

Nah that's not mine, but it has arrived along with a Metabones adaptor! Charging just now.

With a 50mm prime on it feels a very nice, compact and lightweight package.

 

[TdC]

enjoy! let me know! I've already decided against this Fuji X100: I can't handle the slow as fuck focus when on manual, and the non-removable lens is a giant no-no. otherwise, it's pretty fab, but there you go

 

[Wazzerphuk]

If you want fast AF a 5D3 is the leader.

 

[old.user4556]

Fuck me this is a great little camera so far.

Re weight with a big lens, it's fine - you hold the lens in your left hand and operate the NEX-7 with your right. It never feels off balance, although you can tell it's lens heavy with the 17-55mm f/2.8 because it's a big piece of glass. My 70-200mm f/4 is lighter so it balances nicely as does my 50mm prime. The focus 'shimmer', which appears through the electronic viewfinder as well as on the back, makes manual focus a piece of piss and so far allows more accurate focussing that my 7D managed with razor thin DoF.

 

[Wazzerphuk]

So you can't snap with one hand?

 

[old.user4556]

Well no, my canon lenses don't autofocus through the adaptor. One of the small caveats, but for landscape work I've not used autofocus since I was a noob.

 

[caLLous]

Lols look at Wazz slagging G's new camera off at every given opportunity because he just spunked a load of money on a new DSLR.

I dont see the problem with balance, with the 17-55 on my 50D I always had a hand under the lens anyway. And you have to with the adapter because it's manual focus so it's not even an issue. Imagine for landscape work you will be tripod'ing it anyway (the metabones EF adapter doesn't have a built in mount like the Canon EF-M one does it?) so again, no issue.

G, take some pics of your pants so we can compare the output to the 5d3 plskthx.

 

[old.user4556]

When I took the Metabones out the box and turned it over to see a hole for a tripod mount on the bottom of it, I felt like this:

It'll certainly help with the balance.

Ok here's a couple of dirty "out of the window" shots to demonstrate resolution, this is a 75% reduction in resolution with standard Camera Raw sharpening (native images are 6000 pixels wide, this is 1500 pixels wide). That should give you an idea of what prints are possible:



100% crop as indicated in the above red square:



Absolutely shit loads of resolution and sharp even at 100%.

 

[caLLous]

S'ok.

 

[Wazzerphuk]

Lols look at Wazz slagging G's new camera off at every given opportunity because he just spunked a load of money on a new DSLR.

He slags mine off so he gets it in return. TBH we all know that he just bought a child's toy.

 

[old.user4556]

I don't slag it at all! It's Canon in general that I've got a problem with, they're napping and that's not like them.

 

[old.user4556]

Still currently learning the controls and derping around with the NEX-7, so nothing great yet with it until I get out. I took this when I was over at my folks' place for dinner, focussed manually (focus peaking makes it quicker and more accurate than autofocus) at f/1.4 hence the mega thin depth of field.

 

[TdC]

not bad at all mate! I'm really curious to learn how you get on with the NEX-7 combined with the adapter and your other glass. In the mean while, I have returned the Fuji X-100 to my mate at the camera shop, and he's given me the Fuji X-Pro 1 to faff about with, with the 35mm f1.8 Fujinon lens, making it...ooh a 44mm equiv? Charging the battery atm so will take some snaps later.

Reasons I didn't like the the X-100:
- no removable lens
- manual focus was electronic rather than mechanical making it slooooooow (but on the plus side there's actually an option in the settings allowing you to tune some things on that). on the other hand, autofocus, both continual and single was pretty fast.
- you have to do a lot of tuning in the menus to get the camera to behave decently. the default is just completely crap tbh

Reasons I did like the X-100:
- felt very robust. quite heavy actually.
- retro design is delish tbh!
- lens is pretty damn sweet
- you can do some sort of "in-between" aperture tweaking with the jog button, so even if you set it to say...f8 on the lens, you can tweak it to about 0.75 stop under and over without changing any settings at all for a single picture. this is separate from the +2..-2 dial that you can also mess with.

Thoughts on the X-Pro 1 will be posted as I form them...

 

[old.user4556]

Consider this teeds.

http://www.petapixel.com/2012/07/29...ossibly-bringing-x200-follow-up-to-photokina/

 

[TdC]

yup, yup, well, we shall see heheh.

also, thoughts on the X Pro 1 are in: it's terrible to use. not joking either sadly enough. to think I was jerking the old mini-tdc to this camera for ages, this amount of disappointment is mind boggling

 

[old.user4556]

Try the NEX-7.

 

[TdC]

yeah I had it in my hands for an hour last week, but they couldn't me take it. actually, I can buy the body from them, and walk across the road to the MediaMarkt *spits* and get both Sigma lenses for 169 euros each lol! ah well, I'm going to test it first ofc. Still reeling from the shock that the Pro-1 is so crap to use 0o

 

[TdC]

oh maaaaan I am so hoping the camera will be what I hope it will be


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0heL9GRysvI

 

[old.user4556]

Also, Olly OM-D?

Reviews very well.

http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/olympusem5

 

[dysfunction]

I would not normally post here but thought this was quite appropriate

http://guessthelighting.com/

It must be quite a skill to deconstruct a photo!





P.S. it's a big birthday for me this year so thought I'd treat myself to a dslr but that Sony camera looks awesome!

 

[old.user4556]

Massive dynamic range test on the NEX-7, fired this out of the window from a passing rain storm.

Straight out of the camera, no adjustments. Very flat lighting with a rainbow that was barely perceptible.



Stretched historgram / levels via Photoshop's auto-contrast. This is the sort of processing that would reveal huge amounts of noise and banding on my EOS 7D, but the image is almost devoid of noise given the massive manipulation.