On the future development direction of camera lens

Master Julia in the equipment circle has made such a summary. In the past few years, photographic equipment has experienced two great advances. At one time, the release of 5D, 1DS series and 1635 2.8 generation made starry photography something that the general public could do. Although this equipment was very expensive in that year, as long as a few enthusiasts were willing to buy it. The second progress is that the sensors of D800, A7R, D600 and A7 make highlighting the fifth gear in the later period a hot topic, which is very helpful for landscape photography.

And after that? Not much progress has been made, and manufacturers are also thinking of new ways. At present, there are two ways out, one is to shoot videos, and the other is to shoot birds. Needless to say, I can play video skills. Even if my video ability is average, I should be good at vlog, but shooting video is not strictly photography-generally speaking, photography is taking pictures, and shooting video is camera shooting, which is still different. So which direction has made great progress? It's bird hunting, but it's not exactly bird hunting. It also includes wildlife and sports. High-speed continuous shooting+telephoto+precise focusing may be a new progress.

The micro-single R7 just released by Canon is a typical example. Look at official website's introduction. The first picture is a bird shooting picture, and the lens is also a telephoto lens specially used to shoot birds. Can you feel Canon's positioning of R7?

Even the middle-low model R 10 does not emphasize bird shooting, but it also mentions telephoto shooting ability.

In the past, telephoto lenses were very expensive, with 500 thousand lenses, and ordinary consumers were reluctant to spend so much money on a lens. After all, many people don't want to buy more than 10 thousand lenses. Canon has introduced 800F 1 1 and 600F 1 1 telephoto lenses, which cost less than 5,000 yuan, so that ordinary consumers can also enjoy the bird theme.

Although Nikon doesn't have the bird-blowing ability of Canon, it has also introduced 400 F4.5, 800 F6.3, 400 F2.8 and 100-400 telephoto lenses, and Nikon Z9 also has bird's-eye focus. I bet (don't bet) that Nikon's future micro-singles will also blow the performance of birds.

Sony's new micro-single A7M4 increases the real-time eye focus of birds.

Sony also has relatively cheap telephoto lenses such as 200-600. In addition, there are other lenses such as Sima 100-400, Longteng 150-500 and Sima 150-600. It is really not expensive to sell 600mm fixed focus for more than 8,000 yuan, which greatly reduces the expenses of shooting birds and wild animals.

So is Fuji. The new X-H2S micro-camera has mechanical shutter continuous shooting 15fps and electronic shutter continuous shooting 40fps. Like R7, it has preview mode and bird's-eye focus function. The 150-600 lens released together is used to shoot birds and wild animals.

Shooting birds is not a particularly unusual theme. Many years ago, people were shooting birds, but shooting birds required high equipment. In the past, high-speed continuous shooting and high-speed focus tracking were both flagship functions, while non-flagship continuous shooting was very slow. In the early years, Sony Quan Huafu only had 5fps continuous shooting, Nikon D8 10 only had 5fps continuous shooting (half-frame mode was 7fps continuous shooting), D850 only had 7fps continuous shooting (with handle 9fps continuous shooting), D750 had 6.5fps continuous shooting, 5D3 had 6fps continuous shooting, and 5D. What about now? Any microsheet has a continuous shooting speed of 10fps or even higher.

In the past, bird-catching lenses were very expensive. I remember very clearly that in early years, the poor equipment used by Canon users to shoot birds was 456, that is, the 400mm lens of F5.6, and then it was matched with 7D or 7D2 to reach the focal length equivalent to 640 mm. Later, after the cheaper lenses of 150-600 and 60-600 were made, the theme of shooting birds was popularized. What about the current lens? Canon 3000+600F 1 1 and 4000+800 f1,Sigma 8000+150-600, Longteng 150-500.

The focus of low-end cameras is getting better and better, the speed of continuous shooting is getting faster and faster, and the price of telephoto lenses is getting cheaper and cheaper. It is also reasonable that the theme of bird shooting is popular.

In addition, for the equipment party, the focusing ability of different models of cameras is also very controversial, so what theme is the most test of focusing ability? Shooting birds is definitely one of the best themes!