05-29-2018, 10:19 PM
About a year ago I made my first experiences on Fuji GFX with the idea to exchange Nikon against "a bit more than FF" plus the benefit that some accessories as well as lenses could be exchanged (of course, lenses only in direction big lens to small body).
But then. These aperture rings. Loads of buttons, dials (with locking buttons instead of decent spring steps) plus top display plus touch LCD = a lot of everything except a well thought concept of usage. The menu system. The haptics of the whole body and worse, the lens felt rather cheap.
It's probably an exaggeration but if I want to put a nail into a wall and don't find a hammer, I still can use a Nikon with some chance for success and still working camera afterwards. It's crazy, but I would miss Nikon just for the decent feeling in my hand while the Fuji remains more on the toy side for me - no offense, Fuji-owners, -addicts, -fanboys.
And Sony? A year ago the situation was different. But if I go today to one of the remaining photodealers and glance at his second hand shelves... at least 4-6 D810 bodies inside for around 1500,- Goodness, that's half price... I'm not sure if all of them were exchanged against D850. I'm sure none of them was exchanged for any Canon. But some Sony bodies were financed by these trusty D810.
And Fuji? Well, there's a big mass of die-hard Fuji fans. They want everything and don't mind to dig very deep and very long into cluster menus for that, customization everywhere and Kaizen just kicks ass. It needs to do - in first version, they sometimes have hard to accept downsides. It needed at least 3 firmware updates to get acceptable, then alright, the competitive AF-C - but the flimsy dwarf-knob on the frontside remained flimsy, it's not possible to override the lens in AF-C - and while I could AF-C a little spider with D850 and Sigma 180/2.8 macro APO while it was shaken by the wind (the spider, not the lens), it was close to impossible to get a decent shot with this fancy new and brutally expensive 80 mm Macro from Fuji. AF sucked big time, could not track, lens was reacting delayed, manual focus was a joke and the focus limiter? May I quote? "focus range for autofocus: FULL (0.25 m–∞) or, for faster focus, 0.5 m–∞ or 0.25–0.5 m" I've no idea who's in charge at Fuji for these "ingenious" ranges. They just are always wrong.
But then. These aperture rings. Loads of buttons, dials (with locking buttons instead of decent spring steps) plus top display plus touch LCD = a lot of everything except a well thought concept of usage. The menu system. The haptics of the whole body and worse, the lens felt rather cheap.
It's probably an exaggeration but if I want to put a nail into a wall and don't find a hammer, I still can use a Nikon with some chance for success and still working camera afterwards. It's crazy, but I would miss Nikon just for the decent feeling in my hand while the Fuji remains more on the toy side for me - no offense, Fuji-owners, -addicts, -fanboys.
And Sony? A year ago the situation was different. But if I go today to one of the remaining photodealers and glance at his second hand shelves... at least 4-6 D810 bodies inside for around 1500,- Goodness, that's half price... I'm not sure if all of them were exchanged against D850. I'm sure none of them was exchanged for any Canon. But some Sony bodies were financed by these trusty D810.
And Fuji? Well, there's a big mass of die-hard Fuji fans. They want everything and don't mind to dig very deep and very long into cluster menus for that, customization everywhere and Kaizen just kicks ass. It needs to do - in first version, they sometimes have hard to accept downsides. It needed at least 3 firmware updates to get acceptable, then alright, the competitive AF-C - but the flimsy dwarf-knob on the frontside remained flimsy, it's not possible to override the lens in AF-C - and while I could AF-C a little spider with D850 and Sigma 180/2.8 macro APO while it was shaken by the wind (the spider, not the lens), it was close to impossible to get a decent shot with this fancy new and brutally expensive 80 mm Macro from Fuji. AF sucked big time, could not track, lens was reacting delayed, manual focus was a joke and the focus limiter? May I quote? "focus range for autofocus: FULL (0.25 m–∞) or, for faster focus, 0.5 m–∞ or 0.25–0.5 m" I've no idea who's in charge at Fuji for these "ingenious" ranges. They just are always wrong.