I'm under the impression that it is awfully hard to realize a large IQ gain going FF with zooms and to get even close I'll definitely be going with SLR instead of mirrorless lens offerings. Lastly, what am I honestly looking at size wise if I want zoom coverage from say about 15 to 200 and what sort of IQ improvement am I getting with that? etc.Ĭanon FF sensors are pretty poor, but maybe a new one in the next year? The A7/A7r seems half baked, glass has to be adapted, shutter shock, etc. So I'm looking at FF then.Īgain, restricted to zooms and still a bit size adverse what really are my options? Notionally it seems all the APS-C options just aren't significantly better than m43. I think I'd still use m43 on most hikes, but many shot locations in twilight are relatively close to my vehicle so again going bigger seems reasonable. For this opportunity I'd live in driving distance of the Mojave and so I could go larger. To date I have to travel by air to the Mojave so the compactness of m43 is excellent. I'm trying to figure out what, if anything, is it worth my "upgrading" to for this special year? Cropping primes pretty quickly causes them to lose their IQ advantage to a zoom set to the desired focal length - unless of course you carry a mountain of primes. I don't find prime shooting to jive with my landscape shooting - "zoom with your feet" simply does not work because it changes perspective.
My composition technique is to compose without the camera to find the perspective and framing I want, then I get out the camera and appropriate focal length to match my chosen framing. I found it offered almost no practical IQ advantage over the m43 offering and sold it all (again, the longer focals being an exception - nothing quite like the 70-200/F4 in the m43 stable at this time, though the 35-100 is probably the closest fit). I will seriously consider adding the 12-35/2.8 and 35-100/2.8 for next year as they give a bit of a boost to the corners for landscape shots.
Rarer longer focal length shots with the 45-200 or 45-175 - both of which leave a little bit to be desired. Presently I shoot m43 and my main landscape lenses are primarily the 7-14 and the 14-45. I've not shot FF digital though, APS-C is my largest digital experience.
In the past I've shot everything from 4x5 film down to using the Panasonic LX3. If all goes well I might write a book about the area which would be a mixture of photography and natural history, land use etc. Yeah, notionally I might like to print a real gangbusters shot out large - but I have what I consider a few of those already and haven't printed them very large. So lets assume 13x19" is plenty big and any bigger would be a canvas wrap anyway. I do not anticipate selling "fine art" gigantic prints and I have limited wall space so I doubt I'll ever print something super large either.
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Feel free to be as critical as you want about my assumptions and thinking!Ībout a year from now I will hopefully have the opportunity to go half-time at my day job for one year and thus dedicate a lot of time to landscape photography in my favorite locations for that year (mostly Mojave desert but some of the eastern Sierra as well).