Podcast: The Mirrorless Divide—Fujifilm is for Artists, Sony is for Pros

[Patrick FR]

In this BHphoto Podcast episode, the question is: The Mirrorless Divide—Fujifilm is for Artists, Sony is for Pros!

 

Actually, given the how mature the X-system is at this point, the cameras and the wide selections of excellent glass, I consider the Fuji System to be serisoulsy Professional... maybe even more than the Sony System at this stage

[Reiep]

APS-C & user experience vs Full Frame & extensive features packing. It's enough for many to catalog Fuji as amateur and Sony as Pro. 

[milandro]

especially those who don’t really know about these things and repeat what they have read on line without understanding it.

[mdm]

I am an artist... Well, let it be...

[addicted2light]

That's marketing BS.

 

Pros need to justify the cost of the gear they use, with the possible exception of some really BIG name (that most likely anyway gets the stuff for free in exchange for free promotion for the brand he/she is using).

 

I still remember when I was a kid the neighboring wedding photographer using a Nikon F70, that at the time was a super-beginner model. Even I had a better camera, but somehow he still managed to take better pictures than me...

 

My guess is that there are not that many pros out there that can justify the cost of an Otus or a GM series Sony lens, especially when the results most of the time will be basically indistinguishable at normal printing sizes - and even more so on the web - from pictures taken with a Fuji (or a Pentax, or a Nikon DX, etc.). 

 

And most of the few pros that have these needs and this kind of cash I'm pretty sure they're gone medium format, for that has real benefits in terms of subject isolation - if you're into that -, sharpness and most of all color/tonality thanks to 16bit processing.

[Aswald]

Hahaha....funny podcast. Good for the uninitiated.

[Tikcus]

All just boxes with holes in them

[Twigwater]

I wouldn't use a Sony A7 camera for work because they only hold one SD card.

A massive fail on Sony's part and a huge nod to Fuji as far as I'm concerned.. 

[frod]

Preferences are not black and white like this. Reductive nonsense.

[kali108]

Maybe a good podcast for people new to Fuji and / or Sony.  I just don't understand the one guy saying 16MP isn't enough for his "pro" work.  That's just absurd.  There have been many decades of "pro" photography with <=16 MP resolution.