Tuesday, August 1, 2017
Single Lens Reflex RIP
Single Lens Reflex RIP
Subtitle: Analog and Digital SLR Cameras bite the dust
This week Marcus and Agata have each spent over 30 hours travelling to a Global Electronics conference. We need to take our computers but also Photography and Video recording devices.
So do we take the SLR?
At the time of purchase our Sony A7-II was absolutely the smallest and lightest Full Frame SLR camera, especially when mated to a non zoom portrait lens. I talked about it here
But after thinking long and hard we chickened out
We have arrived to our venue carrying 2 Computers and 3 Smartphones and a 200,000 mAh power brick. The DSLR is banished to the home. And why?
- Relative to a Smartphone, which we will be carrying anyway, the minute Sony A7 is still bulky
- Needs a separate battery charger and spare batteries
- Quite a fragile form factor compared to a flat Smartphone. We felt on our 36 hour journey it was just safer to leave the relatively bulky Sony at home
- Smartphones are sooo easy to cary
- Awkward to get Photos off the Sony, has to be done via micro SD card transfer or the Sony Program but that requires a known SSID, which we wont have whilst travelling.
- OK the photos are better, but not that much better.
- If you recall we made a test at the Geneva Motorshow 2016
http://majzel.blogspot.com/2016/04/geneva-motor-show-2016-photoshoot-2.html
- Smartphone has a wider angle to capture the wider scene
So we admit defeat. Smartphone will be used for Photos and Videos. Wait to see the results :-)
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