Numismotography DSLR vs Mirrorless
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anyone here using a Mirrorless and want to share their experience?
they've been out a while now, so surely there are some floating around the forum.
i like the idea of the mirror NOT flipping up and causing micro-vibration for macro photography and perhaps one less part to go bad/need replacing.
especially like the idea of vibration removal for quicker imaging (shutter release issues) when using say, a microscopic objective.
do you find them more affordable now and prefer one over the other?
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I have the Nikon Z9 (also have a Z6). The cameras are awesome! I could argue the Z9 is the best camera available for purchase that suits my varied needs. 30 frames per second at 45 megapixel for sports, eye auto-focus that grabs your subject so well. The camera is freaking awesome.
That said, I had to photograph a couple coins (dimes) recently. I have a 105mm Nikon Macro lens for DSLR but I do not have a Z-mount version of the same lens so I setup my old Nikon D300 that has a 1.5x crop sensor which turns the 105 into 152.5. Very useful for Dimes! If you know what you are doing with lighting, setup etc…the old D300 works great! If I bought the Z-mount 105, I would have more than enough megapixels to produce whatever I needed.
A new mirrorless latest and greatest like I have is not needed to photograph coins. As for the vibrations and such, I always shot coins at about 1/160th shutter speed and never have an issue. I have over $20k in photo equipment because of so many things that I do. Expensive or even mirrorless equipment is not required for coins.
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You can also lock the mirror on a dslr so no mirror shake. I use a dslr and even that is overkill for coin photos. Heck even with nice cameras many people post blurry photos. I see no need for a new mirrorless camera to take coin photos.
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I agree, no advantage for coin photos.
For climbing photos, though - the mirrorless is a lighter camera body, and most of the climbing photographers switched over to Sony a few years ago.
I've used mirrorless and dslr. They're both great when it comes to image quality. I had a Sony a6000 for a while, but I stopped using it because I couldn't do live tethering with it. In my opinion, live preview/tethering with remote actuation is essential for coin photography. I'm using a DSLR Canon Rebel right now because of the tethering software and the access to cheap (relatively speaking) second hand macro lenses.
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I’ve also used both. Mirrorless in itself is no advantage. However the mirrorless modern lenses do (in some cases) have an advantage in terms of sharpness and clarity. Generally speaking, though, a great coin picture is all about the lighting and white balance. Nail that and the rest is of little consequence.
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Mirror lock works just fine.