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Mirrorless isn’t all that (for stills) (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by Pyroweedical@alien.top to c/photography@viewfinder.pro

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Hello peoples! I recently acquired a Sony A6400. Now I didn’t get it for stills, I got it mainly to start practicing video as I’m majoring in film.

Video I haven’t messed around with it all that much, but I’m pretty pleased with the results so far.

Stills tho…… I’m super disappointed. I think it has to do with that it has an EVF. I get EVFs have a lot of advantages, but those come at the expense of the user experience.

I was shooting some landscape just now, and the flip up screen is cool and all, but I COULDNT SEE MY SCENE. Like I had no idea what was actually in my shadows, and it was not conducive for taking good pictures.

Eye af and all the info is cool, but idk… I just don’t like EVFS for stills.

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[–] virak_john@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

TL;DR: Guy buys cheap mirrorless, never learns how to use it, makes stupid generalizations.

[–] incidencematrix@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

I guess it's refreshing to have a workman-blames-tools post where they blame newer hardware instead of older hardware. Usually, I see some variant of "I'm not Ansel Adams because my camera is a year old and only cost $10k, tell me which new one to buy." This one has a more traditionalist aesthetic. (Obligatory fair shake comment: using an EVF effectively if you are used to SLRs does take a shift in thinking. I didn't realize how much I had internalized about the peculiarities of the SLR viewfinder until I started working with a mirrorless system and wasn't getting the results I expected. Not hard to adapt, though, once you realize the problem.)