I hope to stick a NEX5 gallery up this week. I was initially missing the viewfinder, but not to the extent I had anticipated. In some respects a large-ish LCD screen can be a good substitute.
I don't have the long 200mm zoom yet, but do have the 16mm and the 18-55mm lenses. I think what I'll miss at this point is a true macro lens. Overall I'm quite impressed with it. I haven't picked up the K7 in about a month and a half, as I've wanted to learn how to use the NEX5. Suprisingly, I haven't missed the K7 that much. Tom C. On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 1:03 PM, John Francis <jo...@panix.com> wrote: > > Nowadays, if I'm being asked to make recommendations for someone > without a vested interested in a particular system, I find it > hard to suggest they go with the bulk and weight of a DSLR. > > The four thirds systems (and, in particular, micro four thirds) > offer image quality as good as any DSLR that's over a year older. > Their one weakness is in the breadth of the lens selction that > maintains automation (focus and or aperture). Of course they > don't have some of the cutting-edge features of marginal use to > most photographers such as extremely high frame rates. The one > feature they are missing is an optical viewfinder; it depends on > the photographer as to whether an electronic viewfinder is OK. > I'd take a look at the current Olympus and Panasonic offerings, > and in the lenses offered by them and by a few third parties. > > I'm not yet convinced that the other small-body systems such as > the Sony NEX offer enough to a newcomer. The range of lenses is > even more limited than that for a multi-vendor standard. > > On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 03:39:08PM +0200, Boris Liberman wrote: >> Hi! >> >> Like I wrote to Tom on the other thread, Galia is complaining a bit >> about AF of her K10D. I could, in principle, proceed towards spending >> our time together whereas I'd be telling her about the way AF is >> supposed to be used, etc. This can prove beneficial to her to some >> extent. >> >> The alternative is to get her a different set of gear which may or may >> not be a good idea. Suppose for a moment it is a /good/ idea. >> >> What would you suggest? Please let us not limit this conversation to >> Pentax only. Galia's kit is K10D, DA 21/3.2, FA 50/1.4 and FA 100/3.5 >> whereas she always is asked to select a single lens before the shoot and >> she puts all her three lenses is fair use. As an example of what I have >> in mind I'd suggest this: Panasonic GF1 or GH2 or whatever, freshly >> announced 14/2.5 for wide angle, 20/1.7 for normal and 45/2.8 macro for, >> well, macro. >> >> Ideally I'd like to keep this discussion on target. That is there is no >> need whatsoever to compare brands here. I'd simply like to know how >> would you approach this issue. >> >> Thanks. >> >> Boris >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> PDML@pdml.net >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
