After some brief testing, I brought the Olympus EM-1 and some zooms with me on the trip. Awesome, distinctive camera and I’ve had a soft spot for Olympus since. Would I ever enjoy shooting with the NEX-7? It was not the camera for me.īefore my FE-2, I owned an Olympus OM-1. Further, the menu system was, to my mind, nonsensical from a photographer’s point of view. I found it work to remember which dial I set for what (left is aperture, right is shutter speed?) and simply slow to have to jog my thumb from dial to dial rather than use two fingers simultaneously as you do in a front/back setup. The aperture on a camera is in front of the shutter - the front/back control dial scheme of my Nikons always made sense in this regard. In the field, however, I was immediately maddened by the side-by-side control dials. Though there were some holes too in the lens lineup, I rented a Sony NEX-7 to test. Further is that the Nikon DX lens line had some holes for me - it looks more focused on consumer zooms than enthusiast/pro pieces, thus forcing me to go with larger/heavier FX glass in some focal ranges. Nikon mirrorless? Not sure what they’re waiting for on that (The 1” sensor CX series was not a consideration). Choosing a D7xxx or D3/500 would be at least 50% more weight than going mirrorless. Going the Nikon DX (APS-C) route didn’t look to be a significant size/weight savings. The intangibles the intersection of ergonomics and feel are very important to me.įour summers ago, with a family trip ahead of us to Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks, I began my hunt for a mirrorless system. As a film director/DP by trade who spends a lot of time with a camera in hand, I was also looking for a camera to ‘bond’ with. While I like the noise performance and shallow depth-of-field of full frame, and love optical viewfinders, I wanted to cut size and weight, but as much as possible, retain a similar capability to my Nikon package. Lugging around the D800 and lenses on a family vacation where shooting is priority zero became a drag. I like the durability, ergonomics, and image quality of Nikons, even the way they feel in my hand versus other brands. There have been many Nikons between it and my present D800 that’s part of a package of over twenty lenses and accessories. I’ve been a Nikon guy since carrying an FE-2 and a bunch of manual focus lenses up to the Mount Everest base camp twenty-five years ago.
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