Re: KM Maxxum/Dynax/Alpha 7D jpegs
Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2017 10:15 am
In Britain students enrolled on photographic courses for City and Guilds certificates are tutored on the old school film cameras and various skills associated with that including dark room techniques before they move on to digital.
I have never been convinced about Sony Jpegs even on my A6000, compared to other cameras such as Olympus, Fuji, Canon and to a lesser extent Nikon, These cameras in my view exhibit much nicer Jpegs, with Oly and Fuji still wearing the Jpeg crown followed by Canon. Sony still exhibit rather green/yellow bias Jpegs, OK, you can fool about with the colour temp etc pre taking the picture or make amends in PP, but I cannot be bothered. I did not like the over warm Jpegs out of my Nikon D5100, so eventually sold it.
My Oly E 510 just out shines most other cameras for out of camera Jpegs with little PP needed. The newer M/4/3 Oly's are still great for Jpegs but not quite up to the old E 4/3 cameras, may be its because the M/4/3 now use Sony sensors!
Fuji UK say sales are up on Velvia and Astia colour slide, I use both in my old Minolta SLR's. Ektachrome was the choice of the Pros for advertising and magazine work as it could be manipulated during the E-6 process, although I preferred Kodachrome which was/is a pre-paid process and mount by post film. I might start using some colour Neg this summer. Long live film photography, its almost like the Vinyl resurgence in the Hi Fi world. If I was to start over, it would be either Fuji or Canon and I would bring out the 35-mm film SLR more often.
I have never been convinced about Sony Jpegs even on my A6000, compared to other cameras such as Olympus, Fuji, Canon and to a lesser extent Nikon, These cameras in my view exhibit much nicer Jpegs, with Oly and Fuji still wearing the Jpeg crown followed by Canon. Sony still exhibit rather green/yellow bias Jpegs, OK, you can fool about with the colour temp etc pre taking the picture or make amends in PP, but I cannot be bothered. I did not like the over warm Jpegs out of my Nikon D5100, so eventually sold it.
My Oly E 510 just out shines most other cameras for out of camera Jpegs with little PP needed. The newer M/4/3 Oly's are still great for Jpegs but not quite up to the old E 4/3 cameras, may be its because the M/4/3 now use Sony sensors!
Fuji UK say sales are up on Velvia and Astia colour slide, I use both in my old Minolta SLR's. Ektachrome was the choice of the Pros for advertising and magazine work as it could be manipulated during the E-6 process, although I preferred Kodachrome which was/is a pre-paid process and mount by post film. I might start using some colour Neg this summer. Long live film photography, its almost like the Vinyl resurgence in the Hi Fi world. If I was to start over, it would be either Fuji or Canon and I would bring out the 35-mm film SLR more often.