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Mirrorless cameras eat batteries. Nom nom nom! I shoot with a couple of Fuji mirrorless cameras. I always have a couple of spare batteries in a pants pocket.

I switched from DSLR cameras a few years ago. I was given a Fuji to try & that was it, sold the Nikon's. For me the small form factor & great jpeg files won me over. Plus Fuji glass is top notch.

I'd love a Nikon D500, but as an old fart I don't want the bulk & weight it brings.

From what I understand Sony has a difficult menu system. Although I have no first hand experience. The new Sony A7III looks good, but I'm not changing systems again.

CD I think it will be a while until mirrorless equals a D4. Although I'm sure it will happen.

 

I had a terrible time with the Sony menu system, at first. I now have the basic understanding of it, but they definitely seem to like to make life more difficult than it needs to be.

But, all new cameras are more complicated than I would like.

CD

 

B + W is what I had purchased a few years ago. I was curious if they were still good. One negative note I have on the filter is that's hard to clean. Smudges really easy. I suppose I should get a UV lens to put over it as mentioned above.

 

My wife used to use a Canon ELPH Powershot, she was quite good with it. Then she got he first iPhone & the Canon was abandoned for the phone camera. She has gotten quite good with it too & has never looked back.

I've been know to use the potato cam in my phone, but I find the 27mm focal length quite limiting. Yes I know I can zoom in with my feet, but my feet hurt. My wife loves the angle of the potato lens, but she has bought 2 additional lenses one wide & one tele to augment the one on her phone.

Not sure she would bother with filters. If she wanted she could take some of my filters & hold them up in front of the eye of the potato.

 

Anyone going to the Dragon want to take a drive to find some good, out of the ordinary, spots to photograph our cars and secic nature?

 

Correct. A few years ago, on another forum, there were suggestions of putting a cheap UV filter over more expensive filters as protection.

 

Hmmm, what's the point in buying expensive filters if you are going to "protect" them with cheap filters?

CD

 

What is the red car...a cheetah?

 

That's kind of what I thought at the time and why I never did it.

 

I can't say that I have any nostalgic feelings for all the hours I spent in the darkroom in High School, College and as a professional. I don't have any warm and fuzzies about 36 shots to a roll of 36MM film, and loading my Hasselblad backs sucked... I don't want to think about 4X5 film holders ever again.

I'll take the crappiest digital preview screen over a preview from a "Poloroid" back.

CD

 

How does that saying go? "The best camera to use is the one that's with you." It's a lot easier to carry a smart phone with you than a camera bag.

 

Same goes for beer.

 

Very nice Brian. Great job, especially using a cam without a viewfinder.

Did you get the ST on track? I hope so.