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You may have no AF problem and that's great. But that's not everyone's case, far from it. I'm personally not much of a gambler, especially when it comes to expensive bodies and lenses.

Please answer this question: how come a product like Reikan FoCal is used by many people owning Canon gear if there is no such thing as AF inacurracy? <a class="bbc_url" href="http://www.reikan.co.uk/focalweb/" title="External link">http://www.reikan.co.uk/focalweb/</a>

Why is it so difficult for you to admit and see the truth for what it is?

 

People were happily shooting with comparatively low quality sensors 10 years ago while still producing great work. Of course, it doesn't mean that because your sensor has inferior DR that your shot will be crap.

I just like to have more DR to start with. The final image will have reduced DR due to the contrast curve, but having more DR to start with allow for you to capture more and then decide how you apply your curve and on what part of the image. Exactly the reason why we use ND filters. Assuming you had a camera with 50 stops of DR. ND filters wouldn't be needed for instance. A sensor with better DR gives you more flexbility. I don't see what's so hard to understand.

 

A good auto ISO implementation will actually do a better job at selecting the lowest possible ISO than a human operator in fast changing conditions. If you have all the time in the world, then yes manual ISO is totally fine.

Again, why do you always attempt to deny the obvious?

 

The truth is that mirrorless cameras do not always nail focus. The truth is that I know of no DSLR photographer with that Reikan Focal, and I only read about it on Nikon forums. My guess is that the same people who like reading on DXO about DXO DR scores are the same who go about MFA-ing all their lenses all the time with stuff like that.

The truth is that the Canon EOS 70D did better with the old Canon EF 50mm f1.4 USM with clunky micro USM with PD AF (95.6%)  and CD/PD live view AF (95%) than the Nikon D7100 with Nikkor AF-S 50mm f1.4 (83,2% PD, 91.4% CD), the Pentax K-3 with Pentax DA 55mm f1.4 (85%, 89.9%), Sony Alpha 77 II with Sony SAL 50mm f1.4 (86.7% PD, no CD), Olympus OM-D E-M1 (91.2% with 45mm f1.8, 91% with Leica 42.5 f1.2), Panasonic GH4 (84.5% / 85.5%), Sony Alpha 6000 with SEL 55mm f1.8 (85%).

 

Fact about DR: My 6D has more DR above ISO 400 than most other cameras. That is where it starts to count. You must know that, as you happily let the camera choose higher ISO settings. Another thing: the information does not get distributed evenly in RAW. At the dark end, the steps are big, in the light end there is most information. It pays to get exposure right, to get the best tonality. Thinking one can underexpose and then decide later to whereever you want to push the tonal curve will just degrade the end result. 

 

And about "fast changing conditions", come on. Conditions never change "fast". It sounds cool to you maybe, but is just as spec sheet fan-ish as the DR nonsense and the loathing of mirrors.

My camera can't know when I am shooting with the camera well braced, when a long exposure can be done with ISO 100. It does not know which old MF lens I am using for its character, and therefore is unable to make a well informed decision about best ISO setting either. Nor does it know when and how many extension tubes I use, or when I use my 1.7x Soligor TC. Auto ISO is nice for you obviously, it is silly to me. Unless I hand my camera to some snapshooter, but then I also put it in an automatic program mode.

And that ISO stuff anyway has nothing to do with MILC vs DSLR, so why don't you drop this arguing? My initial post is as valid now as it was when I wrote it. DSLRs do have their advantages, and your trying to discredit that with all that biased stuff does not change it.

 

Sorry that in the past you chose the wrong DSLRs and that that skewed your view. On PZ there is another shooter who, because of "advice" on here, went the D800 route. He always never was happy, and went for a 6D (and was impressed with the camera). And he is a very gifted photographer. And it is fine that you like your current MILC too.