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10/17/2019 3 Comments

We Shoot Mirrorless #27 | PPN | Talking about new mirrorless cameras with Angela Nicholson

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Marco's STREET PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOPS!

Marco has invited back his friend, journalist, and reviewer of cameras and photographic equipment Angela Nicholson to talk about the latest news from the world of mirrorless cameras.

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Canon has released the EOS M200. The new M200 replaced the M100 entry-level APS-C camera. It still has a 24MP APS-C sensor and a 180° touch LCD. But the new Digic 8 processor is supposed to improve the AF with Dual Pixel AF and eye detection.

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Canon PowerShot G5X MK II
The G5 X MK II is a high-end compact camera with a 20MP 1” sensor. It has a fixed 24-120mm f1.8-2.8 zoom lens. But one of its special features is a pop-up EVF and flash.
The touch-LCD tilts up 180° and 90° down and on the video-side the camera shoots 4K/30p and up to 120p in full HD video.

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Fuji announced the development of the X-Pro 3. This new iteration of the X-Pro line from Fuji will have a better Hybrid Electronic- and optical viewfinder and it finally gets a tilt-LCD. But as much as Marco has been wanting this feature on the X-Pro line, he has quite some concerns if the way that Fuji implemented it will be very convenient in real-life situations.

Fuji also announced the development of an XF 50mm f1.0 lens. But this lens will come instead of the long-time announced XF 33mm f1.0 lens. Why did they change their mind and was this a good decision?

Marco’s Fuji X-T2 has issues with the weather sealing and the Fuji Cam Remote app continues to have serious issues.

Fuji has also announced an update to the entry-level X-A5 that is now called X-A7.
The camera has a new 24MP APS-C bayer pattern sensor with 8.5 times more phase-detection AF-Pixel than the previous X-A5. The camera has only 4 buttons: A shared drive/trash bin, a replay, a shared Menu/OK, and a display button. Plus an AF-Joystick that helps to operate the camera next to the 3.5” touch LCD. The camera will be available in 4 colors and will hit the stores on October 24th.

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Sony introduced the a7R IV. This is a 61MP fullframe camera that also offers a high-res mode with 240MP. The OLED EVF as 5.7 Mio. dot and the 4K video mode does not add a crop to the width of the sensor.

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Sony also added the new entry-level a6100 and the flagship a6600 to their APS-C lineup. The a6100 is a stripped-down a6400 with a lower resolution EVF. The new a6600 has IBIS, faster tracking AF and uses bigger Z-type batteries that hold about twice the capacity compared to the smaller W-series that the other a6000 cameras are using.

Sony a6100
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Sony a6600
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Panasonic has released the Lumix S1H camera. This is the video-centric version for the S1 lineup. The full-frame camera has a dual native ISO sensor with 24MP that allows fro 4:2:2 10-bit internal recording at 4K/60P. Compared to the S1 siblings with one SD and one XQD memory slot, this camera has 2 SD card slots.

Panasonic Lumix S1H
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Panasonic Lumix S1
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Panasonic Lumix S1R
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Panasonic also added the Lumix S PRO 24-70mm f2.8 lens to the lineup.
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Mirrorless question of the month:
With the latest smartphone camera improvements does it still make sense to buy a compact camera to always have with you when your big main camera stays at home? And if you favor a compact camera, which one would you recommend?
Question by: Luis, Madrid, Spain

Recommended cameras in the answer:
Sony RX VII
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Panasonic Lumix LX100 II
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Canon PowerShot G5X MK II
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Canon EOS M200
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About this show:
On the monthly #WeShootMirrorless episode of the “PPN - Photo Podcast Network” show, Marco and a guest will discuss news from the mirrorless camera world related to innovations, trends, gear, and accessories. And they will introduce mirrorless camera brands by interviewing the respective managers of those manufacturers. They will also invite pro photographers who make their living working with mirrorless cameras to share some tips and tricks about their workflow.

Author

Marco Larousse is a journalist and fine art, street and documentary photographer, educator, speaker, and podcast producer of photography related topics - MarcoLarousse.com. Marco has a background in photography of 30+ years.

Marco's approach to photography is "reduce to the basics and focus on the story and the subject." Growing up with the limitations that film photography has taught him, he still enjoys the basic approach to photography today. For Marco the camera is a tool and a mere extension of his instincts.

Marco is Co-Founder, Host and the Producer at Photo Podcast Network and Co-Founder and Curator of the German Street Photography Festival.

Contact Marco on: Twitter @HamburgCam Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MarcoLarousse1 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/marco.larousse/

3 Comments

Christophe Modot

10/18/2019 11:45:35

Hello Marco, I have my Olympus EM-10 for 3 years now. Time to upgrade ? Not so sure, I'm wondering if I rather keep it until I will start to see mechanical or electronic issues ? The new EM-10 and 5 mark III are more capable (better image stabilization, more pixels, better Continuous autofocus...) but I still enjoy my ''old'' camera and knows its limitations. I think I would rather invest the money in lenses, travels or workshops, no ? What do you think ?

Carlos Bordenave

10/22/2019 04:16:39

Hi Marco. Thanks for you shows. Love it!
I’ve got the following question: do the different crop factors of APS-C cameras mean, there are different APS-C sensor sizes?
Thanks in advance for your answer. Keep up the good work!
Carlos
Buenos Aires, Argentina

Thorsten

10/27/2019 08:50:44

Hello Marco,

as you never can have enough bags and I was considering a Cosyspeed for bike-tours for a while I of course have to start my more of a discussion-point comment, with a question, to participate in the raffle ;-)

Q: In my opinion Fujifilm is making a mistake not opening their mount to third-party manufacturers - what do you think?

Ok - and as this is such a far-fetched question I wanted to help with the car-identification... but this is harder, than I though. To me it looks like some Aston Martin DB4 Variant - though the air-outtakes and the side-windows not really match to a specific model I found. Maybe some prototype for racing?

Ok - that didn't really help - so back to the third-party lenses for Fujifilm:
As a prosumer loving the Fuji-system I would really like to see Sigma/Tamron lenses with AF adapting our mount. Currently it seems, except once Leica, Fujifilm is prohibiting any licensing of the mount - so you "only" can get reverse-engineered AF-lenses or MF, without communication to your camera's body.

Imho Fuji is not doing a good move here - they would increase the attractivity of the system a lot - and owners like myself would not buy e.g. Tamron instead of Fujinon, but buy it in a focal-range, where I can't justify the investment in the excellent, but expensive Fuji-glass, as I wouldn't use it often enough. But I would consider investing in a value-offering to cover the usecase.
So today I don't cover it at all and maybe rent a lens or use some manual lens (e.g. for my portraits I use the 35 and 56 - even the 23 for full-body... but outdoors I would love the compression of the 90mm... but I simply shoot mainly indoors with limited space - so for the few shootings I got the Samyang 85mm f/1.8. Great lens for the price... sadly forces me to work around missing AF and EXIF-info... and OIS would also be nice sometimes)

Sigma, when interviewed stated, they are not considering Fuji X currently, as there are still a lot more Canon/Nikon DSLR bodies out there. Which I also would doubt is the correct conclusion.
Yes of course there are still many Canon "Rebels" and Nikon DX DSLRs out there - but from my experience in our local photo-club and from VHS-courses / model-sharing, these budget-aware owners are unlikely to invest into more, than the kid-lens. While the enthusiasts investing in their hobby meanwhile switched to mirrorless. And especially Fujifilm-owners seem to invest more heavily into lenses, than most other mounts.

E.g. I was on a weekend photo-trip in Prague this year. Six enthusiast photographers, model, hotel and travel... so the people there where willing to invest in their hobby. And to my surprise... there was not a single DSLR anymore! Most of us had more, than one cam with us - maybe there still was one hidden in some bag - but what got used was Sony, Olympus DSLMs and most used camera Fuji X and even one GFX. And all of us did not just have one glass with us, but 5 or more lenses.
Which brought me to this thought, that the enthusiast market, which really would buy additional lenses, is waiting with Sony, mFT and FujiX bodies for a new player... the pure number of DSLR APS-C bodies out there will very seldom invest in new lenses anymore. Esp since there also are so many used-lenses around from people switching to mirrorless.

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