A high megapixel camera is coming [CR2]

stevelee

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If you want the best possible image, then sure, use as large a sensor as possible, but, the consequence is that you need to use larger and longer focal length lenses to maintain a field of view. If you want portable hand-holdable gear with long reach, you have stuff as many pixels as is necessary into a smaller sensor.
If I get a medium format(ish) camera, I would use it to take landscapes mainly. I would often use a tripod. So the size, weight, and need for longer focal lengths would not be an issue. With IBIS, I'd likely take more handheld shots than I suspect now.

But someone who wants high resolution because they want to see every feather on a bird flying very high, the requirements are very different. It is a matter of the best tool for the job.
 
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Sporgon

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If I get a medium format(ish) camera, I would use it to take landscapes mainly. I would often use a tripod. So the size, weight, and need for longer focal lengths would not be an issue.
What if those photogenic landscapes require access on foot to get to them ? The only place I have found unwieldy, heavy camera gear to not be a disadvantage is in the studio.
 
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I wouldn't put the GFX100S in the unwieldy heavy camera category myself....

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When my bag is fully loaded (Lowepro ProTactic 350) with a tripod attached, I really wouldn't know the difference between 1-3 pounds more or less. Conversely when I am traveling light (with my Tenba 10l) I seem to notice a difference in ounces, go figure.
 
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AlanF

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When my bag is fully loaded (Lowepro ProTactic 350) with a tripod attached, I really wouldn't know the difference between 1-3 pounds more or less. Conversely when I am traveling light (with my Tenba 10l) I seem to notice a difference in ounces, go figure.
According to Einstein, it’s Relativity.
 
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Sporgon

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When my bag is fully loaded (Lowepro ProTactic 350) with a tripod attached, I really wouldn't know the difference between 1-3 pounds more or less. Conversely when I am traveling light (with my Tenba 10l) I seem to notice a difference in ounces, go figure.
I can relate to this, but I think in the former case it takes a longer time before the difference is felt.
 
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stevelee

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What if those photogenic landscapes require access on foot to get to them ? The only place I have found unwieldy, heavy camera gear to not be a disadvantage is in the studio.
Then I am quite unlikely to trudge there with my DSLR either. One of the main reasons I have (mostly) talked myself out of buying a GFX100S is that I doubt I would really suddenly start shooting a lot more landscapes even if I bought one. I do see YouTube videos by landscape photographers who have adopted the camera, and they are hiking all over the place to get their shots.

I travel with my G5X II, so in reality most of my landscapes are shot with that. The 120mm end of the zoom is rarely an issue. I feel more limited by the 24mm limit, and find myself taking shots to be stitched when I get home to compensate. So that informs what lenses I would choose if I bought the Fuji.

Now I am likely to spend my spare cash on a new Mac Studio anyway. On a train to DC last week I watched the Apple event on my iPad, and then I watched a Zoom call from the ISS.
 
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Sporgon

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I'd say about the same as a R5 or potentially a R3?
(comparing in size, bulk, etc to GFX100S).
When adding some of the monstrous RF lenses and a suitable tripod to hold it all steady, I'd say yes ! I appreciate that the Fujica is isn't much larger than a FF DSLR and that some of the lenses are probably smaller, but my response was to Steve's post that I quoted; big, heavy gear and tripod to match enabling you to capture the last word in IQ sounds wonderful for landscape photography but the reality of capturing those stunning images is about being in the right place at the right time. Often lugging all that gear about can hinder you being there, that's all I'm saying. Landscape images that I get from my 5DS, best lenses and a heavy 058 tripod are stunning in IQ but they are rarely the most compelling ones due to accessibility issues. Having said that my most successful landscape image was shot on a 5DS and Tamron 85/1.8 VC which together makes quite a lump.
 
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Michael Clark

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After having 2 cameras that hit the same numbers at the same time, I have exiftool rename files on import to date-camera-lens-originalname. And in the viewer I sort them based on capture date, DPP4 is really bad at it, LR and DXO pretty good.

Depending on how you download the files, the filesystem can keep the modification date when copying. That only works if you’re using a card reader, though.

That's interesting. I never noticed that. Mostly I am using 256gb Sandisk, with some 128 Sandisk and ProGrade Gold thrown in.

I have one 512gb card, but I don't really like to use it because a weird thing happens -- with CRaw the number of files that the card can hold from the R3 exceeds the R3 default file numbering and Canon does a weird thing, where when it starts over and adds a "-1" to the file name. The result is that when you download the files, they are no longer in the shot order and even more frustrating, they alternate from one to another so that you might have 1,000 files where, say, a sequence has a single men's basketball game shot, then a single women's basketball game shot, then a men's, then a woman's. Royal pain in the butt to get them back into the proper order.


I've found DPP 4 really good at sorting by date/time taken and then renaming in the order they are displayed on screen.

I import with original filename. I also have the file name prefixes set differently in each camera from the default IMG_xxxx.cr2. My 5D Mark IV is MC54xxxx.cr2. My 5D Mark III is MC53xxxx.cr2. My 7D Mark II is MC72xxxx.cr2. Thus, no file names with a "_1" tacked on at import if the file numbers from each camera overlap.

If I were shooting enough frames with one body on the same day to go past 9999 images it would be trivial to sort by date/time taken, put each game/event into a separate folder, and then rename them all with different prefixes for each folder. Or one could even change the prefix in camera before shooting the next event/game.
 
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Michael Clark

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I actually went even more drastic. I went from an R5 and R6 (primary and backup) to two R6s about 3-4 months ago. I still have the R5, but it's used in a dedicated copy stand setup for something else and not for general purpose shooting like my two R6s. I know a lot of wedding/event photographers that went from 5DM4 or the original R to the R6. Do I wish the R6 had more resolution? Heck yeah, but at the same time, I primarily shoot portraits and headshots and weddings and events and most of my work is either printed at book size or used directly online as profile photos, and frankly, if your output is 240-300 pixels per inch on paper (or even smaller for screen), the R6 is more than enough resolution. I have grips on both my R6s and would love to do 2 R3s, but they're just too expensive, so two R6s is where it's at for me for at least the next couple of years. If I absolutely have to have the resolution, I can take the R5 off the copy stand and use it, but in all reality, the R6 is plenty of resolution for my type of work, and for stills photography is basically a mirrorless 1DXMIII with two fast SD cards. I used to have an original R (before the R5) and still use an RP for my personal camera and in all honesty, from a resolution standpoint, I'm pretty hard pressed to see sharpness differences between them without looking at the metadata to see which is which. I'm sure if I take exactly the same shot with the same lens but different body and compare them I'd see the differences, if I pixel peeked, but outside of that. Nope. They all look sharp and I'm rarely cropping in so far that my final output isn't still scaled down.

But... but... but... You're thinking in terms of what the final output looks like to your customer, not what the original resolution looks like pixel peeping at 100% on your screen, or what bragging rights a "100% crop" uploaded to an internet forum can get you.
 
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But... but... but... You're thinking in terms of what the final output looks like to your customer
Which is what pays the bills, and is reality... I prefer to operate in reality. I don't care what it looks like pixel peeping at 100% on my display. The only people who will ever see that is me.
 
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