![]() I’m still not a huge fan of Sony’s user interface but it was funny how familiar it all felt after all that time, as I had the original A7R and an A7 II several years ago. I realized that it’s time for me to move on. They have such a head start over Canon und Nikon! Looking for 35–40mm lenses, I found there are 11 or 12 options, and that’s only counting the native ones for the Sony FE mount – from Sony, Zeiss, Samyang, Sigma, Voigtländer, you name it … But there are so many more lens choices by now, compared to 3-4 years ago. Yes it’s a bit bulky and clunky compared to the sleek Fuji X-E3. Now that the A7R II was in the house, it very quickly grew on me. Prices of the A7R II are so low by now it’s almost unbelievable, as everyone’s getting rid of their II’s and even III’s right now! I only paid 1,100 Euros for the body with a mere 5,000ish clicks on it! Yet the quality of the 42 megapixel sensor is still impeccable – and the advancements that the newer A7R models offer regarding auto focus, processing speed and what not, simply aren’t important for me anyway. When I recently got an assignment to do high-quality reproductions of a series of century-old color plates, I bought a Sony A7R II to use for that job. For all that money I’d still have no built-in stabilisation, and a lens selection that is very good, yet also very limited – plus bulky and expensive – when compared to the usual APS-C or 35mm “full frame” systems. And I love the classic, no-fuss handling that all the Fuji bodies and lenses offer.īut – the GFX 50R with the upcoming compact 50mm f/3.5 lens would be an investment of 4,000–5,000 Euros. The files are oft course extremely rich and detailed and the Fujinon 63mm f/2.8 lens is unbelievably sharp and crisp already at wide-open aperture. So I shot it once when the opportunity arose here in Cologne – Foto Gregor, one of the two big camera stores in town, had an event where you could borrow the camera for an hour or so. It’s slower than other modern cameras – no phase-detection auto focus, but that doesn’t bother me at all. I got really interested in the Fuji GFX 50R. Maybe I was spoiled forever when I used my Sony A7R back in 2013–2015 … But the files of this big camera, in the end, would be exactly the same as those that the diminutive X-E3 delivers! And while those 24 MP Fuji files are very good, I started to miss the last bit of extra resolution and detail. ![]() You get a good one for 900 Euros … a lot of camera for little money. ![]() I also dislike the fact that the X-E3 doesn’t have an image stabilisation, and started thinking of buying an X-H1. Yes, the Fuji does a tremendous job here, especially in combination with the Iridient X-Transformer that I still recommend heavily.īut in the end I got attracted again by even more resolution and the simpler processing that Bayer sensors offer over the Fuji X-Trans. So my photography is slow, it’s all travel, landscapes and cityscapes, and the occasional assignment (product shots, business portraits, interiors and architecture). ![]()
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