Digital Camera Word interviewed Kazuto Yamaki:
https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/...sigma-fp-it-hasnt-been-decided-yet-says-sigma
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What has to happen that you get out of GAS?
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Digital Camera Word interviewed Kazuto Yamaki:
https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/...sigma-fp-it-hasnt-been-decided-yet-says-sigma
It gets worse: from the DPReview's interview with Kazuto Yamaki at CP+ 2023:
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Sigma are the one company who are a real threat to my blissfully GAS free state.
Sigma are the one company who are a real threat to my blissfully GAS free state.
For me too!
pdk42
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An fpL mk ii with an EVF would be hard to resist!It gets worse: from the DPReview's interview with Kazuto Yamaki at CP+ 2023:
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Sigma are the one company who are a real threat to my blissfully GAS free state.
PL-Shooter
Active Member
What has to happen that you get out of GAS?
Get run over by a speeding train?
Jayneboo
LMF-Patron
Yep, that would be a lovely camera
Jonathan-Mac
Well-Known Member
I think that for GAS to abate what has to happen is you reach some kind of crisis point where having so much stuff either takes the joy out of photography, makes decision-making on what to take or use impossible or decide that what you have is just taking up too much space or money. You have to reach the bottom before you can come back up.
In my case this has not happened yet. I got rid of a lot of stuff to fund my change to L-mount but have since added new lenses and recently a Canon FF DSLR which also requires lenses... And all of that without fully getting rid of either my Pentax or Fujifilm stuff...
In my case this has not happened yet. I got rid of a lot of stuff to fund my change to L-mount but have since added new lenses and recently a Canon FF DSLR which also requires lenses... And all of that without fully getting rid of either my Pentax or Fujifilm stuff...
CharlesH
LMF-Patron Gold
My wife says I will be able to fund my retirement with my video and photography hobbies. This will be by selling off my stuff.
Regarding GAS, I stumbled upon this article:
www.digitalcameraworld.com
The information comes from a report published by Aftershoot. They asked 500 professional photographers in order to establish some trends:
aftershoot.com
I find specially interesting the information about the photography genres & specializations:
wedding photography (86.5%)
portraits (69.8%)
events (47.1%)
boudoir (13.4%)
sports (9.7%)
real estate (8.8%)
If this is true, the L-Mount alliance should not worry much about the lack of a 120fps photo centric camera (for sports).
And it is very strange that in this report they don't talk about video/hybrid jobs as a trend in the camera/photo industry in 2024. For example, I know many wedding photographers and nowadays all the clients ask them to deliver a video of the wedding...
Most professionals spend less than $1,000 a year on photography gear
The majority of professionals spend under $1,000 a year on gear – and were youngsters bitten by the photography bug, who managed to carve a career out of it
The information comes from a report published by Aftershoot. They asked 500 professional photographers in order to establish some trends:
Photography Industry Trends 2024: What’s Shaping the Future? - Aftershoot
Welcome to the 2024 Photography Industry Trends Report. What are the most popular genres of professional photography? How much do professional photographers charge per shoot? How many images do they deliver to each client, and how long do they take to deliver them?
aftershoot.com
I find specially interesting the information about the photography genres & specializations:
wedding photography (86.5%)
portraits (69.8%)
events (47.1%)
boudoir (13.4%)
sports (9.7%)
real estate (8.8%)
If this is true, the L-Mount alliance should not worry much about the lack of a 120fps photo centric camera (for sports).
And it is very strange that in this report they don't talk about video/hybrid jobs as a trend in the camera/photo industry in 2024. For example, I know many wedding photographers and nowadays all the clients ask them to deliver a video of the wedding...
Pete_W
LMF-Patron
Very interesting indeed!
I also noted this statistic in the article: 46.9% capture 1,000-3,000 images per shoot
Good Lord, that would suck the fun out of photography for me!!!
I know a really top wedding photographer who doesn't do anything like that, still uses MF film also but really is good. Has a BA degree in photography too. No way he does 1000s.Very interesting indeed!
I also noted this statistic in the article: 46.9% capture 1,000-3,000 images per shoot
Good Lord, that would suck the fun out of photography for me!!!
What a horrible job if you ask me. From Planet Earth to product photography... No thanks. Hobby yes.
Pete_W
LMF-Patron
I felt the same when I traded in all of my m4/3 gear and downsized my kit. Now fully L-mount and only the lenses I need.
Liberating indeed, I still have Pentax and other film era lenses but they have little value and TBH are optical garbage in comparison to Lumix 24-105 and 70-300. I know Jonathan Mac still likes some of them but I find the colours and rendering belong back in that era.
Exception being the F*300 f4.5 which I still have, I thought about selling it (I couldn't trade it with my digital era Pentax against my S5ii combo) and nobody seems to want this ex-renouned king.
I recently discovered that the focus ring material had lost it's grip on the barrel so that means even less value so... I bought a cheap K-mount lens to scope converter to try and use it as a spotting scope or small telescope.
Weather has been bad but it's sharp without any CA (F*300 has ED optics) on nearby views. The 5x converter is probably uncoated so contrast is diminished but it's a cheap 1500mm scope or 30x. I may get some joy out of it?
As for the others, I may still have a dig at film sometime or try the Vivitar 28mm f2 close focus for flowers due to the unique bokeh.
Some suggest older adapted lenses are good for video, no doubt some are but an S5ii with the modern AF lenses are hard to beat, then you have the LUTS. But if you want pologonal bokeh, the dreamy look etc. these still have application but losing video AF and needing to use manual aperture rings is for me a no no. I don't understand why the aperture ring is making a return.
Sorry I've went off on a tangent, getting back to your scenario I always thought in general the bigger sensor FF images look better than M43/APSC.
Pete_W
LMF-Patron
Yep, I agree.
For me, M43 is only a better version of a 2x teleconverter. Maybe in the future FF sensors could crop and match current M43. In astro cams I think they have made some progress in SNR/dynamic range with small sensors but no idea how, maybe computational just like phones?I felt the same when I traded in all of my m4/3 gear and downsized my kit. Now fully L-mount and only the lenses I need.
Not sure of future bigger than FF formats as it is bigger and needs bigger lenses unless they too use similar techniques and new lens tech, they've probably already done so as it's just bigger MILC.
Yours is an example as I said before. This kind of thing is also a reason why my cousin who is a photography lecturer in Manchester university says film 67 looks better.
He is obviously biased but back in 1982 my rich uncle bought him a Pentax 110 system, I was only 8 years old and I was green with jealousy but it shows how nurture can work. It was only 2 years later Santa brought me a Halina 35mm instant camera... Anyway I still have great photos from that and being film I still have the prints.,. Digital probably lost like most of us have done.
Apparently some of the current popularity of film is new born babies and not wanting to lose the images... Makes sense eh?