Nikon And Canon Cameras
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Niko And Canon Cameras
You really don’t see that very often, a MFT camera beating Canon and Nikon DSLR sales on the usually “conservative” and not so “Mirrorless friendly” US market. The $499 G5 kit sells so well that it even beats all Canon-Nikon DSLR topsellers (Click here to see the overall camera ranking)!
In terms of value for money, The G series are easily the best m43 out there. They just doesn’t attract a lot of attention from enthusiasts (but they should, because they’re more capable than GF/PEN series).
The 20mm is the Staple lens and the rest if their lens selection is top notch. If any one company can turn heads towards MFT, it will be Panasonic.
I agree, the 20mm f1.7 simply rules in its price range (actually picked mine up used for $200, incredible deal), and being a pancake simply adds icing to the cake. Tack sharp, I also like its focal length, not so wide it distorts yet wide enough to capture a group of people indoors, and very nice for tight landscapes.
Hate? That’s being a little over-sensitive I think. I wonder how long it will be before people start using the term “Panaphobic” to describe those who don’
Since when did a persecution complex come with a camera purchase? Show me one post that exhibits this (this one is out because the only name calling has been “olympus fanboy”, but that’s acceptable for some reason).
So some people dont share your same taste for cameras… Big deal. We’re all adults, you dont need someone elses’ endorsement. I think that a Honda Odyssey is, bar none, the greatest vehicle ever built. VERY FEW people will share that opinion, but that doesnt make the Oddy a victim of hate, or constitute a barrage of insults. If someone has a preference for sportscars, that’s not them giving blowjobs.
I strongly hope the G6 will be a really big bang – at least I cannot see any reason for this unbelievable ‘rumor-stop’ about the G6 just less than one week before announcement.
The G5 was announced just 9 months ago at $799, has now dropped to $499 and the G6 is rumored to use the same dated GH2 16MP sensor, so my guess is it will be mostly a restyling exercise with some enhanced Wi-Fi capabilities and a few other minor tweaks thrown in.
I personally very much liked the G3′s styling, the G5 not so much, but it’s the Pany sensors/Venus processors (color rendition) that have kept this two Panasonic camera owner away. In every other respect they’re a true bargain given their full-featured bodies. We’ll see how the G6 tests.
Perhaps we are all narcissists here in the States and can’t stand to not have a mirror around, even if it’s one that you cannot really see.
In a lot of ways, photography is a narcissistic endeavor, capturing the world “as our eyes see it”. Although TLR, RF, and SLR are all old technologies of necessity, not necessarily superior to EVF, each with its own imperfections, but we rhapsodize about their respective virtues because they use mirrors, and they reflect us as much as they reflect the world, our gaze theoretically visible from the other side at all times. Likewise, we are still suspicious of SLTs because they use half-mirrors, and therefore are only half-self-respecting; we may very well be spied upon, experimented with, toyed with, and by whom? Sony?
With mirrorless, only the camera sees, and the camera shows us what it sees, which is unnerving for us. Sometimes, with LCD glare, we can’t even see what the camera sees. Our vision becomes uncomfortably irrelevant, and our eyes are certainly not visible to the subject.
I turned up the post-shot image playback time on my camera to 20 seconds, and I keep forgetting to turn it back down to my normally preferred 2 seconds. So, the camera now proudly shows me what it got for a really long time, until I press the shutter button or something, and it is a bit unnerving, like I’ve gone blind. Now, I cannot even see what the camera is seeing, but only what it has already seen. I think I’ll leave it there for now as an exercise in humility.
I wouldn’t read too much into that ranking. The camera had blowout pricing a day or two ago, $359.99 for the one lens kit and $405 for the two lens kit. I was surprised to see that this site missed it.
Sadly the only reason an mFT ever appears high on the ranks is when a huge discount happens the rest of the time they barely make a dent.
Why would you expect anything else? At an age of 5, mirrorless still is pretty new to a rather conservative market, where enthusiasts frenetically endorse the look and feel of tools they know to the newcomers. As the core of mirrorless is a different viewfinder technology, the situation is pretty much akin to the arrival of the 35mm SLR and its long struggle for being accepted alongside the rangefinders. The first 35mm SLRs were available in 1936, but it took until the late 50s or even early 60s until they rendered rangefinders with exchangeable lenses a niche product. While technology may move on a bit faster these days, there is no reason to assume that just 5 years is enough to make a perfectly functional technology redundant.
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In terms of value for money, The G series are easily the best m43 out there. They just doesn’t attract a lot of attention from enthusiasts (but they should, because they’re more capable than GF/PEN series).
The 20mm is the Staple lens and the rest if their lens selection is top notch. If any one company can turn heads towards MFT, it will be Panasonic.
I agree, the 20mm f1.7 simply rules in its price range (actually picked mine up used for $200, incredible deal), and being a pancake simply adds icing to the cake. Tack sharp, I also like its focal length, not so wide it distorts yet wide enough to capture a group of people indoors, and very nice for tight landscapes.
Hate? That’s being a little over-sensitive I think. I wonder how long it will be before people start using the term “Panaphobic” to describe those who don’
Since when did a persecution complex come with a camera purchase? Show me one post that exhibits this (this one is out because the only name calling has been “olympus fanboy”, but that’s acceptable for some reason).
So some people dont share your same taste for cameras… Big deal. We’re all adults, you dont need someone elses’ endorsement. I think that a Honda Odyssey is, bar none, the greatest vehicle ever built. VERY FEW people will share that opinion, but that doesnt make the Oddy a victim of hate, or constitute a barrage of insults. If someone has a preference for sportscars, that’s not them giving blowjobs.
I strongly hope the G6 will be a really big bang – at least I cannot see any reason for this unbelievable ‘rumor-stop’ about the G6 just less than one week before announcement.
The G5 was announced just 9 months ago at $799, has now dropped to $499 and the G6 is rumored to use the same dated GH2 16MP sensor, so my guess is it will be mostly a restyling exercise with some enhanced Wi-Fi capabilities and a few other minor tweaks thrown in.
I personally very much liked the G3′s styling, the G5 not so much, but it’s the Pany sensors/Venus processors (color rendition) that have kept this two Panasonic camera owner away. In every other respect they’re a true bargain given their full-featured bodies. We’ll see how the G6 tests.
Perhaps we are all narcissists here in the States and can’t stand to not have a mirror around, even if it’s one that you cannot really see.
In a lot of ways, photography is a narcissistic endeavor, capturing the world “as our eyes see it”. Although TLR, RF, and SLR are all old technologies of necessity, not necessarily superior to EVF, each with its own imperfections, but we rhapsodize about their respective virtues because they use mirrors, and they reflect us as much as they reflect the world, our gaze theoretically visible from the other side at all times. Likewise, we are still suspicious of SLTs because they use half-mirrors, and therefore are only half-self-respecting; we may very well be spied upon, experimented with, toyed with, and by whom? Sony?
With mirrorless, only the camera sees, and the camera shows us what it sees, which is unnerving for us. Sometimes, with LCD glare, we can’t even see what the camera sees. Our vision becomes uncomfortably irrelevant, and our eyes are certainly not visible to the subject.
I turned up the post-shot image playback time on my camera to 20 seconds, and I keep forgetting to turn it back down to my normally preferred 2 seconds. So, the camera now proudly shows me what it got for a really long time, until I press the shutter button or something, and it is a bit unnerving, like I’ve gone blind. Now, I cannot even see what the camera is seeing, but only what it has already seen. I think I’ll leave it there for now as an exercise in humility.
I wouldn’t read too much into that ranking. The camera had blowout pricing a day or two ago, $359.99 for the one lens kit and $405 for the two lens kit. I was surprised to see that this site missed it.
Sadly the only reason an mFT ever appears high on the ranks is when a huge discount happens the rest of the time they barely make a dent.
Why would you expect anything else? At an age of 5, mirrorless still is pretty new to a rather conservative market, where enthusiasts frenetically endorse the look and feel of tools they know to the newcomers. As the core of mirrorless is a different viewfinder technology, the situation is pretty much akin to the arrival of the 35mm SLR and its long struggle for being accepted alongside the rangefinders. The first 35mm SLRs were available in 1936, but it took until the late 50s or even early 60s until they rendered rangefinders with exchangeable lenses a niche product. While technology may move on a bit faster these days, there is no reason to assume that just 5 years is enough to make a perfectly functional technology redundant.
Disclaimer: 43Rumors has no affiliation with any of the equipment manufacturers mentioned on this site. Please visit their official websites by typing the specific brand name and adding .com after it in your browser. All trademarks and brands belong to their respective owners.
This site earns revenue using Skimlinks. In the interests of disclosure and ethics, we want to be open about how we make money from our site. Besides display advertising and other paid sponsorships, we also sometimes get paid a commission if you purchase a product or service that we link to in our content. We want to be clear that our reviews are driven entirely by our editorial staff based on what we think. We use Skimlinks to help us automate the process of linking to products, especially as it distances our editorial staff from creating affiliate links themselves.
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