After long thinking ... I'm going with a A99
Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2013 4:47 pm
Well ... , after a long try of searching to replace my A900 and deciding what is the best for me for shooting and video and at the end the cost of all that ... I decide to go with a Demo A99 bargain from a store. I was able to get D600 for less than 2000 $ including the taxes for refurbished model, and almost same story for the 5D Mark III. But ...
I have done some contract with a D3 to feel properly the Nikon world, after I have done video contract with the 5D Mark II too. Both was very good camera. I purchased the Metabone EOS to NEX to played with exotic Canon lenses searching for the best out of focus effect with at least some electronic control (Aperture, auto exposure...). At the end what I was missing. The NEX 7 with the Metabone adapter is good, but the balance of weight and the limitation to focus when I need (with very expensive Canon lenses) was a bit disappointing. The Nikon system feel very good in hand and I was to purchase it almost last week ... but after doing some video contract I was missing the tilt screen too much and also the stabilization for just removing the small body stress when doing handled sequence and not having too much space to connect the big stabilization system under the camera. The Canon was very good for the sound capture and on video control. but the focus peaking for the magic lantern is not on par with Sony at the moment.
One both system Canon and Nikon the image quality is there and even more, the noise response are better than the Sony at high ISO. But shooting in ISO 100 range with studio light for my contract there is not a big difference.
At the end ... my small precious old auto focus Prime Minolta are some time half the size of Canon and make me feel I can still walk around with the A99 and a small prime instead of the NEX 7. It is not close that I will switch to Canikon in the future, but for now ... I think It was the best choice.
I will keep only one copy of my Minolta lenses for the next month, that will be the way to save some money and be more free If I need to go on other system.
I will start Ebay selling in tomorrow: 100 2.0, 35 2.0, 28 2.0, 200mm 4.0 macro, 14 2.8, 28-75mm 2.8, 70-210mm 4.0, 50mm 1.8, 50mm 1.7, 50-500 bigma, ...
Frank
I have done some contract with a D3 to feel properly the Nikon world, after I have done video contract with the 5D Mark II too. Both was very good camera. I purchased the Metabone EOS to NEX to played with exotic Canon lenses searching for the best out of focus effect with at least some electronic control (Aperture, auto exposure...). At the end what I was missing. The NEX 7 with the Metabone adapter is good, but the balance of weight and the limitation to focus when I need (with very expensive Canon lenses) was a bit disappointing. The Nikon system feel very good in hand and I was to purchase it almost last week ... but after doing some video contract I was missing the tilt screen too much and also the stabilization for just removing the small body stress when doing handled sequence and not having too much space to connect the big stabilization system under the camera. The Canon was very good for the sound capture and on video control. but the focus peaking for the magic lantern is not on par with Sony at the moment.
One both system Canon and Nikon the image quality is there and even more, the noise response are better than the Sony at high ISO. But shooting in ISO 100 range with studio light for my contract there is not a big difference.
At the end ... my small precious old auto focus Prime Minolta are some time half the size of Canon and make me feel I can still walk around with the A99 and a small prime instead of the NEX 7. It is not close that I will switch to Canikon in the future, but for now ... I think It was the best choice.
I will keep only one copy of my Minolta lenses for the next month, that will be the way to save some money and be more free If I need to go on other system.
I will start Ebay selling in tomorrow: 100 2.0, 35 2.0, 28 2.0, 200mm 4.0 macro, 14 2.8, 28-75mm 2.8, 70-210mm 4.0, 50mm 1.8, 50mm 1.7, 50-500 bigma, ...
Frank