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The reason I bought my A7II is so that I can: * Get more light in with massive full frame lenses (and hence less noise) * Ability to use lens hoods, xenon flash
by fennecfoxy 5y ago
The reason I bought my A7II is so that I can:
* Get more light in with massive full frame lenses (and hence less noise)
* Ability to use lens hoods, xenon flashes, easier to use tripods
* Have more lens options available (even though the prices make me cry) that use the same (main) sensor (as opposed to phones with multiple lenses, telephoto etc tend to use low res/smaller sensors)
* (the biggest point) so I can take a photo, have the RAW and know that the only thing applied to it is the colour profile; no AI photo magic, no Apple saturation boosting, etc
When I take a photo with my A7II I know what I have on the card is the photo _I_ took. With a phone who tf knows what the image processing chip has done to it to make it "look good".
- ants_a 5y agoI found a nice compromise in Fuji's crop system. The cameras are about as small as can be while still retaining reasonable handling (having tons of mechanical knobs helps). My experience was that outside of some extreme special cases I don't want to make use of the large apertures enabled by full frame, the depth of field is just too small. And if you don't need that light gathering capability you can get smaller lenses. It's pretty nice being able to fit camera with a normal zoom, tele-zoom, wide pancake and normal prime into a 3L sling bag. Regarding processing vs. RAW, all images are processed, there really is no such thing as a "true" photo. If the on device processed photo looks good then life is so much easier. If you can't trust the device processing or want to tweak the last millimetre out of the photo, even Apple devices can give you the RAW sensor data these days.