Thread: Kirk Tuck Dumps Micro Four Thirds for NEX-7

Originally Posted by krugorg

Wait, are you advocating using the iPad as a camera?

OK, you're right..that's crazy talk. But I do love abig, clear viewfinder.

I'm glad he has found what works for him. In the past I've found his writings to be more about the gear, and the technical side of things, rather than what I would call the image making side. That's not a criticism, just an observation.

I'm not sure I entirely agree with Luke's assertion around image quality. I think it all depends on the preferred subject matter, and final output. Those that output primarily to the web certainly have a wider choice of cameras.

I admire the Nex 7. It has a lot going for it. I just don't like it. For me, it just didn't feel camera-like. It felt competent, and effective, but without any personality or presence.

The other thing I don't like about Nex is the glass (which is at least as important as the camera...). The Nex glass comes in for a lot of criticism around size. That didn't bother me too much, but the choice of focal lengths. Wow. Bizarre.

I note that he raises the X-Pro 1 focus 'issues', and it seems that since he personally experienced these issues, they must be true for everyone. For me, it doesn't have any focus issues. It won't meet everyone's needs, but that doesn't make it an issue. Nice slam at the Fuji handling of diopters (which does seem odd), but the camera he really wants, Leica, uses the same approach but doesn't get whacked.

Anyway, he's happy, and we have lots of choice. Cool.

Originally Posted by krugorg

Pretty hard to argue with ya, Luke, on that - pick the camera you actually enjoy using.

The thing annoying for me on some of these blogs, is the quick turn over in systems (and I don't think Kirk is one of the big offenders here). I mean, they know considerably more than me on photography and gear, but they also seem to be a little schizophrenic in their gear decision process. One day it is Nex, then it is m4/3, then it is the latest mega-pickels full frame, and then it is back to m4/3, just before a full switch to the X-Pro, and then finally a switch to a RX100 and D800e. Obviously, if they just stuck with one system for three years, it probably wouldn't drive much traffic to their blog.

It's all new material for Tuck of course and we are here talking about him, but this change may have been genuinely motivated. If he'd wanted maximum impact by switching to the NEX 7 he should've done it a while ago when the 7 was brand new. It doesn't take long for interest in a new camera to change from hot to warm.

I still do not understand why anybody cares what any of these bloggers use or say they use, find the camera that works for you and be happy. Bloggers need something to write about but that does not what they have to say either matters or is significant

If we went into a newsagent and found thousands of self-published little magazines littering the shelves, how much notice would we take of them?

It's a very interesting (but totally off topic) social phenomenon that bloggers and blogs (which so often are, in essence someone's having had a series of thoughts and decided to write them down and publish them irrespective of content or interest or clarity) gain a spurious authority simply by dint of appearing ...

Originally Posted by Landshark

I still do not understand why anybody cares what any of these bloggers use or say they use, find the camera that works for you and be happy. Bloggers need something to write about but that does not what they have to say either matters or is significant

Fair point. I generally find it easy to discern those that are blogging to be heard, and those that are sharing an experience and have something for me. It's like many things in life: sorting the wheat and chaff etc.

Bob, I definitely agree with your point. Still, we live busy lives and it's hard to handle every camera and learn what feels good or what works. As an example, I live in Milwaukee. A metropolitan area of nearly 1,000,000 people. None of the camera stores carry Pentax or Fuji. I was checking out a NEX in a Best Buy and had to deal with some kid who worked there trying to sell me one. I told him I just wanted to check out the menus and get a feel for the handling. He was just telling me how cool it was.....LOL. Like that was the best selling point.

The bloggers are not prophets and shouldn't have followers, but I usually get some useful information from their posts.

Originally Posted by Luke

. He was just telling me how cool it was.....LOL. Like that was the best selling point..

You mean it isn't?
I've obviously been labouring under a misapprehension all these years

I think I need a blog to read so I can find out what the proper criteria are.

After handling one, I decided the main selling point was that it felt like a small, slippery bar of soap and that using one was not intuitive and now matter how cool they are, if you look like you're going to drop it and can't figure out to operate it, it will make you look decidedly UNcool.

I have to say every time I see somebody with a nex I think how ridiculous and unbalanced they look with disproportionately huge lenses on the tiny body ... nothing about them says "pick me up and take pictures with me" ... well, not to me anyway, but then again I'm the only person on the planet so far as I can tell who picked up an X100 and decided it wasn't very nice