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Can't tell - you need to shoot with it. By right there won't be any issues, but if an element has come loose and is misaligned, you can't tell by eyeballing the exterior.
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What on earth are you on about? None of these lenses have "dispensed with the aperture", that doesn't make sense. Of course they have an aperture, even fixed aperture lenses such as the Olympus 15mm body cap lens have an aperture (f/8 in this case).
But it sounds like you're just referring to typical Nikon G series lenses, which is what I was addressing in what you quoted from me.
Yes, I'm an idiot. Dispensed with the aperture LEVER is what I wanted to say. The 300/4 PF having it is a bit of a nasty surprise for those looking to adapt, since it's going to be a popular lens.
Ok, back to the OP: The difference between EF and F is about a few mm, so the adapter must be absolutely precise. At 18mm a small error will produce issues. Normally when it comes to adapting I prefer to go with longer glass just to be safe, and use native for shorter lengths.
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This is the awesome thing about Nikon F mount lenses, they don't need *any* electronics for controlling aperture! :-) Just uses a simple mechanical lever.
Thus their adapters are waaaaay cheaper and waaaay more reliable than the ones for Canon EF.For now - there are lenses that have dispensed with the aperture. So far they've mostly been exotics (the PC lenses, the 800/5.6), but the 300/4 PF is a more mainstream lens that has removed it.
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I'm incredibly excited for the dawn of affordable OLED, even if they don't render motion as well as plasma. Perfect viewing angles, perfect uniformity, perfect blacks, excellent color accuracy.
Would love a OLED monitor myself, but I think a 40" 4K OLED monitor is just going to be out of my reach.
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Shoot, US$1300 is cheaper than what I paid for my 30" Dell 1600p display! The 4K options are starting to increase, and they've all been priced pretty well.
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I love how all the newbies are rushing here to defend Canon.
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Wonder why these threads tend to descend into wishlists.
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H suffix is to denote the bundled lens of 14-140. GH4 and GH3 kits with the 12-35 are denoted as GH4A and GH3A respectively.
Whether or not there is anything new is another thing (likely firmware upgrades) but the GH4H itself is not a new camera.
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this however will be a huge success in broadcast, mark my words. Every single broadcast camera man shooting on the street will have an XC10 in his/her hand. This is what Canon is looking after.
In other words, this will be based mostly on the strength of Canon's corporate sales team selling these to broadcasters then? I think you oversell it somewhat if you expect bloggers and YouTubers to get this - they're already doing well with other cameras, and I know for some of the things you mentioned the other cameras do just as well. US$2,500 gets a lot of camera otherwise.
The advantage is definitely in the codec but I'm not sure how big it is until the samples come out.
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Either way you can't compare the look of a fixed zoom lens small chip camcorder to a DSLR or mirrorless camera.... you just can't.
The 1" chip with a video zoom lens will always have a whiff of 'video' about it as I find even with my FZ1000 and LX100.
It's not going to look like a GH4 or NX1 so for $2500 why spend that much?
Because it says "Canon"? I've been trying to find out what's the USP of this for it to cost $2500, and I'm not getting much beyond the codec.
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Doesn't the Panasonic use the more efficient IPB compression method?
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- A fully corrected lens and no artificial software lens correction, as opposed to the badly distorting, in-camera-photoshopped "Zeiss" and "Leica" offerings by Sony and Panasonic.
Are we still beating this dead horse? It's the 21st century, no need to stick with 19th century methods of doing things.
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Beyond the codec, what does this offer that the FZ1000 doesn't have?
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So it's official now, as the Canon XC10. 305Mbps bit rate in All-I, it seems. 4K only with expensive CFast cards. Somewhat underwhelming on the specsheet, and at US$2.5k!
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The NX1 has always been ~US$1250 since its launch here, so perhaps this is more about dropping the US and EU prices to Asian pricing.
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Nikon 1 J5
In: Cameras
As I mentioned elsewhere, they should've just left the 4K mode out. Nikon needs to not make more jokes out of the Nikon 1 line.
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I really really cannot agree with *anything* being stated in that piece.
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What's wrong with the Canon menus? You can do your own menu plus everything is quite neatly layed out left-to-right. Compared to Sony menus on the A7s, Canon is considerably better.
Can't explain it. I just don't like using Canons in general. However you are right; Sony has taken place overall as the brand I get the most frustrated at. Not sure how that happened, I used to love using Minolta cameras!
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It's the difference between Canon simple UI vs. Nikon complicated UI vs. Sony's broken UI. Too many buttons, little menus inside hidden menus packing hundreds of ''features'' and not organised cleanly, not even in colour. It's also the difference between iOS vs Android. Canon & apple approach is neat, functional, pleasing and FAST.
I just wish both companies have other major let-downs compared to the competition, like the 70D's video quality and iOS restrictiveness!
Given that I tear my hair out when using a Canon I'd think this is mostly subjective.
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I will pick up a Nikon 80-200 2.8 AF-D soon as well as some fast primes. Regardless of which body I'll purchase, I'll buy all my lenses in Nikon mount so that isn't a concern at all.
Will you be using this lens in AF for stills? If so beware, it has issues with AF that make it unworkable for pro work. I eventually sold mine.
Shutter Speed and ND Filters
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