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You right I need to think this through. Bit hard because never had mirrorless camera, but will have a read.
Did you say you have Sony? Any pictures you can share or send link to page? Would love to see them if you don’t mind. Thanks
I have a Sony A7 (the first one) and a couple of Panasonic MFT RF style cameras.
I'm not sure that posting my pictures will help you too much as I'm not the worlds greatest photographer and any pictures posted here will anyway suffer through the process.
Personally I'd not worry too much about image quality within formats from different manufacturers (APS-C v APS-C or FF v FF) unless you're going to be regularly pushing things by 6 stops or shooting at ISO 50k. I think that just about anything is good enough these days unless you're looking at one of the older Canon sensor cameras which arguably lag behind the later sensor designs from other companies.
I'm struggling to see any advantage for DSLR's that would interest me. They can be cheaper and there are lots of cameras and lenses on the used market but other than that mirrorless (for me) offers compact kit (even FF, my A7 and a 35mm f2.8 is small,) reliable focus, the ability to focus anywhere in the frame, the ability to manually focus very accurately, the ability to shoot silently (my A7 doesn't but later A7x bodies will, my Panasonic cameras do,) and the ability to see the dof and the exposure.
I will post one shot. I posted this in another thread as an example of a shot I couldn't have taken with a DSLR because the camera focused on her face despite it being away from the centre of the frame. I could therefore just frame the shot at 85mm and f1.8 and take the picture without worrying about moving the focus point. This would have been difficult or maybe impossible with a DSLR not in live view but with mirrorless you can do this easily and get it in one shot.
Actually I'll post another example which could maybe have been taken with a DSLR but maybe not as quickly or as confidently... This was taken with a manual focus 35mm lens and I could focus very accurately even when using a wide aperture. With mirrorless and given time you can focus very very accurately.
Both of these shots will suffer for being posted here so maybe you'll just have to trust me when I say that they're sharp at 100% on my screen.
One last picture and then I'll stop
Another reason I like mirrorless is that I can use cheap old film era manual lenses easily. I took this with an old Minolta Rokkor 50mm f1.4.
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