Alpha 1

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Alpha 1

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After falling for full frame propaganda... I'm amazed by M43

You have to be blind to not see the Sony/FF propaganda online, if you on YouTube 95% of photography content revolves around Sony/Canon/FF and newbies to be hobby basically think mirrorless camera = Sony because they get brainwashed so much when in reality Olympus and Panasonic mop the floor with Son

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StardustNovaSynchron in r/M43

November 23, 2025 12:58 AM

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If you know, you know

A 6X6 medium format negative has an equivalent digital resolution of ~120 megapixels. A Sony A1 has a resolution of 50.1 megapixels. An 8X10 large format negative has approximately 600 megapixels equivalent resolution. I'm no pixel peeper, but it's just obviously not the case that a professional pho

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Josvan135 in r/AnalogCommunity

March 9, 2026 10:12 PM

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Leica M11/M11-P as a Dad-Cam/Family Cam?

agree, i can get same amount of good images for kids from m10 compared to sony a1. mf with range finder is not bad and the whole process is much more joyful. also for sony you likely will take thousands of images for a two hours event, nightmare for post processing.

AnonymousScalar in r/Leica

January 7, 2026 11:20 PM

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Please share your First impression of OM-1 Mark-ii

I have recently shot with top level Nikon (Z9, Z8, Z6III) and Sony (A1, A9II, A7SIII). I was a professional motorsports photographer and my primary weekend kit was 2 Z9's and 2 Z6III's (depending on how much video the client wanted vs photos, more video was Z6III's, more photos or bad weather, Z9's)

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machosalad06 in r/OlympusCamera

February 7, 2026 2:00 PM

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Pricing Insight? (Wedding Package)

You need better skill, gear, and flash before you offer to shoot a wedding by yourself. I'm not saying a brand new Sony A1 II but at least a used pro model like a 5D Mark III and whichever 70-200mm f/2.8 you can afford. And flash! You only survived your last wedding because you shot in blazing sunli

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eliminate1337 in r/AskPhotography

April 17, 2026 6:25 PM

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Other than d850

That's not true of today's non-video-focused full frame mirrorless bodies. Only the Z8/Z9/Sony A9III don't have a mechanical shutter. The Sony A1 and the Canon EOS R1 also scan fast enough to not have it but they still do. The Panasonic Lumix S9 and the Sigma BF both don't have a mechanical shutter

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erikchan002 in r/Nikon

December 11, 2025 8:33 AM

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How is the autofocus on the Z6iii and Z5ii?

Short answer: generally, yes, Nikon's latest generation of cameras is going to be better than any Sony APS-C body at AF. Long answer: about 5 years ago AF in mirrorless made a generational leap in performance, the first since we got PDAF on-sensor with the Nikon V1/J1, and saw significant improvemen

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jec6613 in r/Nikon

June 22, 2025 12:09 PM

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I forgot my 35mm f/1.4 S at a night event and had to rely on the 24-120mm f/4 instead — and honestly, I couldn't be happier with how it performed. Shot this at ISO 20,000 on z8. What do you all think?

I started with Nikon d5100 back in 2015. Later, I moved to the mirrorless due to the size and third party lense availability of Sony. However, Sony doesn’t offer everything in one body, except for the A1. But for the kind of work I do, it felt like an expensive setup to hold on to. I got a great dea

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aswin_narayan in r/Nikon

April 20, 2025 2:29 PM

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Why are my photo's so grainy?

"Proper modern" you mean a consumer sony mirrorless from the video series? Even sony's A7RV or A1 will have trouble at 12800...

ZookeepergameDue2160 in r/AskPhotography

October 6, 2025 10:38 PM

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Z8 Overheating today

Go to r/canon and tell them "Canon bodies never overheat" and you'll be laughed out of the room. I seem to recall the R5 being especially prone to overheating, but it's definitely not unique to that body. I don't know about Sony, but I'd be beyond shocked if they never overheat, especially given how

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LookIPickedAUsername in r/nikon_Zseries

April 16, 2026 4:06 PM

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