expired Posted by Cruiser272 • May 29, 2024
May 29, 2024 10:49 PM
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expired Posted by Cruiser272 • May 29, 2024
May 29, 2024 10:49 PM
Refurb: Canon EOS R100 Camera w/ RF-S18-45mm f/4.5-6.3 IS STM Lens
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If you have some extra money, I would spend an additional $270 or so on a refurbed RF35mm f 1.8 macro, which is an exquisite lens.
If you have only a little extra money I would spend $99 on a refurb RF50mm f 1.8.
If you have the coin for it, buy both of the prime lenses above (35mm and 50mm) and have the discipline to practice with them. They will make you a much better photographer if you practice with them, and their resolution/color/contrast is gonna be pretty much unmatched. You could spend 5X or 10X more on lenses and not get much if any visible improvement.
It's worth considering that we went through ~200 years of photography without having those articulating screens and people still got "professional" results.
The price of this thing is a major feature. I'll give it to my kid and not worry too much about the outcome.
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If you have some extra money, I would spend an additional $270 or so on a refurbed RF35mm f 1.8 macro, which is an exquisite lens.
If you have only a little extra money I would spend $99 on a refurb RF50mm f 1.8.
If you have the coin for it, buy both of the prime lenses above (35mm and 50mm) and have the discipline to practice with them. They will make you a much better photographer if you practice with them, and their resolution/color/contrast is gonna be pretty much unmatched. You could spend 5X or 10X more on lenses and not get much if any visible improvement.
Looks like that lens is sold out now. I wonder if I'll be ok with only the camera and lens that's included. Too many choices to make
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It makes somewhat less sense to buy the warranty on a $299 body+lens combo than on a $2000 camera. On the other hand, if you plan to turn your $299 camera over to your 12 year old, as I plan to, the warranty has a good chance of eventually being put to positive use.
All that being said, I'm in the unique position of already having some MF3 lenses. Maybe an EPL8 with a 14-42 and a 40-150 is comparable to this R100. Maybe it's not. I think the size is a pretty big deal when the most important camera is the one you have with you. The MF3 camera is significantly smaller. I don't know enough about the R100, but how is the stabilization compared to the IBIS on MF3 (usually good for a few stops)?
I haven't experienced much FF photography. Went from an APS-C Pentax system to the MF3 system which absolutely was the right call for me *then*. But a lot has changed in photography in the decade or so since I made that change, so I appreciate your insight on this.
I kept my thousands of dollars of M43 lenses and don't have any plans to get rid of them. I expect they will be quite useful to me at some point, and I actually have some optimism about the future of the platform. That new OM1 sounds like a pretty amazing camera. At the right price I might pick it up. At some point sensor tech is going to become so awesome that even the smaller sized sensor of M43 will not be a liability.
I have large hands and I'm a tall 6'4" guy, so one thing I figured out is that the size "advantage" of M43 often is actually a disadvantage to me. Unless the camera is super-small and super light, I find no advantage to having a camera body that's 30% smaller. It's just harder for me to use its interfaces with my clunky meaty fingers.
Where M43 really kills it is on the longer lenses, which can be built into amazingly small packages.
I prefer to shoot a lot of available light and indoors, so issues of low light sensitivity matter to me.
As for battery life, I think I got really spoiled on the EOSs with their large chunky batteries. On the old SLRs it seemed like they would last a week. With the active viewfinders, those batteries don't last as long, but they're still pretty good in cameras like the R6. Many of Canon's cameras, including these $299 packages, now use a smaller battery and I'm not a fan of that. I avoided all of these cameras for awhile simply because of the battery issue. But $299 for a modern-ish camera with a lens and charger and battery is very hard to say "no" to.
You asked about stabilization. These $299 cameras, not surprisingly, don't have any, though the lenses do. Generally in-camera stabilization is the province of Canon's $1000 and up camera bodies. My R6 Mark II has it. It generally seems to work extremely well, though I've only had my R6M2 for a couple of weeks. People say four or five stops of stabilization, but if you read around, it really depends a lot on what lens you're using. Longer focal lengths get less help from IBS.
Anyway I think M43 is a perfectly reasonable choice of platform, and my suspicion is that this format will yet have its day in the sun, as sensors get ever better and filmmakers become ever-more attracted to the weight and size advantages of M43. There are a whole host of reasons filmmakers would be attracted to this small size: gimbals and other stabilization rigs are going to work much better and easier on lighter gear.
It's been ~7 years since I bought new camera bodies (besides my M43 gear) and the amount of innovation in that time is really remarkable. Autofocus systems have had a quantum leap, and the RF lenses are markedly better/sharper/contrastier. It is an exciting time to be a photographer.
"Bought an EOS R100 to use with a cam link for live streaming, however after 30 minutes, the display auto turns off due to "inactivity", and since the cam link was capturing that display, it loses signal."
https://www.reddit.com/r/Cameras/...sing_auto/ [reddit.com]
It makes somewhat less sense to buy the warranty on a $299 body+lens combo than on a $2000 camera. On the other hand, if you plan to turn your $299 camera over to your 12 year old, as I plan to, the warranty has a good chance of eventually being put to positive use.
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