Just ordered a Swarovski T2 adaptor for my CTS 85 drawscope. Bit of fun as it will be a manual 800mm for snapping birdies (have used it previously on my old Nikon which made it a 1200mm!)
That is probably not going to happen that quickly with either Canon or Nikon. Their mounts may be called 'dying' because they have new mounts, but there are still more DSLR's being sold than mirrorless cameras, and while both companies will start to develop more for their mirrorless mounts, they will not be walking away from a market that still wants products for their old mount cameras in a hurry. Imho
Their mounts will certainly not fade away as quickly as the A mount is doing because there are so many lenses and so many more users.No one is denying that with the benefits of the new mounts images should be better than an equivalent (if there is one) lens on their old mount, but not every can change systems every five minutes. Not everyone can buy a lens whenever they want. Some people struggle to buy a camera and a lens. If they can use lenses they may have in the short term then that can only be a good, especially if the lenses were to work as well as if they were mounted on a DSLR.I don’t buy the “use your old lenses on the new body” approach as that’s just a short-term approach to saving some costs. Native lenses will always have advantages on many different fronts.....
Maybe that is one of the reasons a7 users have been using lenses from other manufacturers via adapters since the beginning added to the limited lens options available for new mounts. The reason that both Canon and Nikon had to create new lens mounts was that their DSLR mounts lenses are designed for a DSLR (well 35mm film first obviously
). If they just took away the mirror there would be no size reduction and no potential to improve the performance of the lenses because the sensor would still need to be the same distance from the sensor. So to make cameras with a shorter flange distance they had to change their mounts. Canon chose to keep the same diameter of the EF mount, add more electronic contacts and change the bayonet connection while decreasing the flange distance. Nikon decided to massively increase the diameter of their mount as part of their change whilst also deceasing the flange distance. New mounts were inevitable when going mirrorless, both companies have decided to do things in slightly different ways, and objectively, both have the potential to be technically better than the current Sony mount in the future. Time will tell if they both take advantage of that.
This has been my experience with this lens, after the firmware update the af with the bare lens was only slight but with the 1.4 I was amazed at how much better it was with the A73.
And how come adapters are suddenly a big problem when it is on another brands cameras!
The point is it seemed to be an OK stop gap for Sony cameras/users to use other manufacturers lenses until a point in time that Sony brought out their own lenses in whatever focal length, but it is seen as a negative (by some people) when a manufacturer has the option to potentially, not only use an adapter for other lenses with different mounts (because of the nature of a short flange distance on a mirrorless camera) but have actually from the off, produced adapters which gives access, and potentially, full compatibility, with a lot of their own lenses, and lenses from third parties for the lenses from their previous mounts. I can see no way that is a negative.
The point is it seemed to be an OK stop gap for Sony cameras/users to use other manufacturers lenses until a point in time that Sony brought out their own lenses in whatever focal length, but it is seen as a negative (by some people) when a manufacturer has the option to potentially, not only use an adapter for other lenses with different mounts (because of the nature of a short flange distance on a mirrorless camera) but have actually from the off, produced adapters which gives access, and potentially, full compatibility, with a lot of their own lenses, and lenses from third parties for the lenses from their previous mounts. I can see no way that is a negative.
Could the '-0.7 exposure compensation' possibly be the reason for the dark images! Before a wedding with a new camera I would have been testing to see if the camera reacts to different situations in a similar way, and not just exposure, but WB, focusing too.
to how the new camera does/'sees' things. And that was two cameras from the same manufacturer, nevermind two different manufacturers.
It's negetive because no one would buy there r mount 50 1.2 for example when the ef performs just as goodThe point is it seemed to be an OK stop gap for Sony cameras/users to use other manufacturers lenses until a point in time that Sony brought out their own lenses in whatever focal length, but it is seen as a negative (by some people) when a manufacturer has the option to potentially, not only use an adapter for other lenses with different mounts (because of the nature of a short flange distance on a mirrorless camera) but have actually from the off, produced adapters which gives access, and potentially, full compatibility, with a lot of their own lenses, and lenses from third parties for the lenses from their previous mounts. I can see no way that is a negative.
What’s that a GAS turbine
Sort of. They use to make steel and iron in this place.
Could the '-0.7 exposure compensation' possibly be the reason for the dark images! Before a wedding with a new camera I would have been testing to see if the camera reacts to different situations in a similar way, and not just exposure, but WB, focusing too.
When I got my new camera I didn't assume that it would react the same way in particular situations as my previous camera had with regards to metering, because I had hoped that they had improved the metering in the years between cameras, and indeed, the new camera does not expose in the same way as the previous camera. Not sure it is better, but it is different, so I have to recalibrate my brain
Ah, I tend to look at things from a users point of view rather than the multi national companies pov when it comes to seeing positives and negatives.
I would hope that it would be for £1000 more.
I don't remember users of the EF versions saying too many things bad about that lens, which is why it is not that much of a problem to be used via the adapter on the EOS R, in the short or long term, and may be a smaller and lighter, or a very similar combo even with an adapter.
Sorry, I misunderstood as you using the same settings as the D750. You seem to be getting used to the new camera.
Ooooooh goody goody!
I hope you post pictures as this is something that interests me from time to time. I've always wanted to take a nice moon shot but I'm too tight to buy a long lens so a scope could be something to think about.
My new A7 III arrived today from Panamoz but UPS left it with my neighbour as I was at work. Said neighbour is not in, or they've ran away with my new toy
I'm going nuts curtain twitching awaiting their return.....
Brendan by Justin Akehurst, on Flickr
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Bren & Bliss by Justin Akehurst, on Flickr
