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Hey, Alex, I saw in another thread where you are now a new member of the Sony Club! Welcome.....! I'm a fairly new Sony user, too, having purchased back in November 2019. Love the camera and love the lenses!
Thanks Clix! I don't consider myself a fanboi for any brand of anything. I go with what will work best for my needs given my finances at that particular point in time. Having said that, I do love the Sony autofocus, colour science, rendition & ease of use! But, I did use my Olympus E-M5 Mk II & an Olympus macro lens for my entry into the weekly challenge this week. Only cause I am yet to wangle a macro solution for the Sony setup!
I started with the lowest of the lowest Canon DSLR's back in 2012, working up to their full-frame system in 2014, went to Olympus & Panasonic/Lumix micro four thirds systems last year & now over to the Sony full-frame & APSC systems. I am eyeing off the Tamron 28-75mm f/2.8 next for the Sony... & maybe some extension tubes for macro... 😊
I'm really looking forward to thoroughly exploring astrophotography, finally. From the basic testing I have done, the a7III is a lowlight beast!
The only part of Sony ownership I am not enjoying is the price of glass. But, as is commonly said, glass is forever!
For many, many years, since the early 1990s, I was a "Nikon Girl," shooting my way through various SLRs and later Coolpixes and DSLRs, but one day some years ago a friend introduced me to the world of mirrorless cameras, showing me his Sony NEX 7, and I was fascinated with the new technology and advantages mirrorless was bringing. Bought one and loved it, but still also keeping and using my Nikon gear as well, and then along the way bought Sony's wonderful RX100 compact cameras and then later the RX10 IV "bridge camera," and was very pleased with them all. The Nikon gear spent more and more time closed away in cabinets, bags and the Pelican case.....
When the Sony A7 III was released, I became really interested and started thinking more seriously about going with full-frame with Sony....it was a big decision, though, and to make a long story short I dawdled and dawdled with the decision, first shifting from the idea of going with the A7 III to the idea of going with the A7R III.....and then Nikon interrupted my process by introducing its new mirrorless line of "Z" cameras and lenses so I waited a bit longer to see how that was all going to work out. Nikon let me down big-time by not having any macro lenses at all in its initial lineup of lenses or even in the roadmap they first showed, and I wasn't interested in fooling around with some adapter and my older lenses (some of which wouldn't work well with the adapter anyway). For me, a native macro lens was a "must." Back to the drawing-board..... Then, I was just about to take the plunge and get a Sony A7R III when wouldn't you know it, Sony announced and eventually introduced the A7R IV! I waited a while longer to see how reviewers and actual real-time users were responding to this new body.....
One thing which was absolutely first and foremost in my mind, regardless of camera bodies, was the native lenses that Sony had to offer, and I was particularly interested in the 90mm macro, which had consistently received high praise from users and reviewers and which would be number one lens on my buying list. So one day in November I said to myself, "OK, time to stop this wishy-washy waiting around -- you want a new camera? Just DO it!" and I traded in my Nikon gear plus that Sony NEX 7 on a shiny new A7R IV and, yes, that prized 90mm macro lens plus the shorter 50mm macro and in a last-minute switch, went with the gorgeous 135mm f/1.8 GM rather than the all-around 24-105mm I had been intending to get. Je ne regrette rien. I am more than happy with my current gear. And, yes, that 90mm macro lens all but lives on the camera full-time; it is the lens I seem to reach for time and time again.....
Yep, lenses are not inexpensive, are they?! Ouch! So far I've been very pleased with the six Sony lenses I have so far and they have all fulfilled specific needs and purposes. Got a couple more on the wish list and in time they'll arrive in the household, but there's no big rush for that. In the meantime I've been loving what I have been seeing with the lenses I have.
One of the first things I bought, too, was a set of Kenko extension tubes for my E-mount body and lenses, and they do come in handy now and then. I also already had a Canon 500D closeup lens in one filter size as well as a Nikon T-6 close-up lens in another filter size, so from time to time have experimented with each of those, too.
Since I still have my Sony RX100 M7 and my RX10 M4 along with my A7R IV, with regard to photography this is now a totally Sony household, but I don't use the other two cameras all that often, since my A7R IV more than does what I want. I love this camera so, so much!
When the Sony A7 III was released, I became really interested and started thinking more seriously about going with full-frame with Sony....it was a big decision, though, and to make a long story short I dawdled and dawdled with the decision, first shifting from the idea of going with the A7 III to the idea of going with the A7R III.....and then Nikon interrupted my process by introducing its new mirrorless line of "Z" cameras and lenses so I waited a bit longer to see how that was all going to work out. Nikon let me down big-time by not having any macro lenses at all in its initial lineup of lenses or even in the roadmap they first showed, and I wasn't interested in fooling around with some adapter and my older lenses (some of which wouldn't work well with the adapter anyway). For me, a native macro lens was a "must." Back to the drawing-board..... Then, I was just about to take the plunge and get a Sony A7R III when wouldn't you know it, Sony announced and eventually introduced the A7R IV! I waited a while longer to see how reviewers and actual real-time users were responding to this new body.....
One thing which was absolutely first and foremost in my mind, regardless of camera bodies, was the native lenses that Sony had to offer, and I was particularly interested in the 90mm macro, which had consistently received high praise from users and reviewers and which would be number one lens on my buying list. So one day in November I said to myself, "OK, time to stop this wishy-washy waiting around -- you want a new camera? Just DO it!" and I traded in my Nikon gear plus that Sony NEX 7 on a shiny new A7R IV and, yes, that prized 90mm macro lens plus the shorter 50mm macro and in a last-minute switch, went with the gorgeous 135mm f/1.8 GM rather than the all-around 24-105mm I had been intending to get. Je ne regrette rien. I am more than happy with my current gear. And, yes, that 90mm macro lens all but lives on the camera full-time; it is the lens I seem to reach for time and time again.....
Yep, lenses are not inexpensive, are they?! Ouch! So far I've been very pleased with the six Sony lenses I have so far and they have all fulfilled specific needs and purposes. Got a couple more on the wish list and in time they'll arrive in the household, but there's no big rush for that. In the meantime I've been loving what I have been seeing with the lenses I have.
One of the first things I bought, too, was a set of Kenko extension tubes for my E-mount body and lenses, and they do come in handy now and then. I also already had a Canon 500D closeup lens in one filter size as well as a Nikon T-6 close-up lens in another filter size, so from time to time have experimented with each of those, too.
Since I still have my Sony RX100 M7 and my RX10 M4 along with my A7R IV, with regard to photography this is now a totally Sony household, but I don't use the other two cameras all that often, since my A7R IV more than does what I want. I love this camera so, so much!
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That is a seriously nice camera body, capable of amazing imagery; it will stand you in good stead for many years. I had a twenty five year gap of using a camera from my teens to buying my first DSLR!
Your joking right? You know @Clix Pix will be eying up the A7R5 as soon as it is announced!
I absolutely love this camera, it is truly the best one I have ever had, and I went through various Nikon DSLRs including the still-pretty good D3..... Had a period of a couple or three years when I shot very little at all and then eventually the photography urge began burning inside again. This A7R IV is just astonishing, though, really spectacular. It handles anything I throw at it with aplomb and brings me great joy and satisfaction. I had been concerned that the high resolution with all those 61 MP would be challenging and show up flaws in my technique, especially when handheld, but thankfully there is IBIS and all that which really helps, along with improved ISO.
Like you, I've been using cameras for many, many years and I think I was either eight or nine years old when I got my first camera, a Brownie Hawkeye, for my birthday. A Kodak Instamatic came along when I was in college, and it wasn't until I was working and married that I bought my first SLR. My first DSLR, years after that, was the Nikon D70 after messing around with various Coolpixes.
Hee, hee, AFB!!! You know me too well....... Fortunately, chances are that it'll be another two or three years before Sony brings out the A7R V -- so mine will remain the Flagship for a while and I'll be loving it every minute. Right now many people are still eagerly awaiting the A7 IV! At this point I'm still thinking about a couple more lenses that I'd like to get and then after that it'll be new computer time again..... Actually, it took me a long time to actually get around to buying the A7R IV, and at the time I bought my 15" 2018 MBP in December of that year I was already looking ahead to using this computer for processing images with a new camera....just took longer than I'd thought it would be before I had the camera!
Testing out the Sigma 16mm f/1.4 lens on the Sony a6500 at the wide open end of the aperture while dad's girl sneaks in some sooks on my pillow and dressing gown as I was making the bed the other night.
A few from a couple of months back when we went on a big explore in the states Mid-North region. We are heading back there in mid September again.
Good security at abandoned places is so hard to get these days, they are always taking time out for a cuppa!
If it were a human, they'd probably be on their smartphone!Good security at abandoned places is so hard to get these days, they are always taking time out for a cuppa!
The Boof while out on our 10km walk on Sunday visiting a local farm that has some great decrepitude on it. We are lucky to be able to walk through and take a gander. She loves it 'cause there's always Roo's lazing around the place and she is fascinated by them; thankfully, she is a really good girl and does not chase them, always looking at me to see if I will give the "go, run" command, which I never do for wildlife, only for kids, if the parents are okay with 34kg of slobbering happiness doing zoomies around their kids interspersed with random kisses. Bless her, she's definitely a keeper! 😍
Sony a7III+ Samyang 14mm f/2.8 AF
Sony a7III+ Samyang 14mm f/2.8 AF
She looks like (and sounds like!) such a gorgeous, lovely, sweet girl....you're so lucky to have found each other!
Sometimes, dear Clix, the Universe provides synergy! Or was it kismet? 🤔
I had put a call out to the Universe for a true Scottish Hound, but then I found out that they only come as bits of white fluff on the end of a string!
I had put a call out to the Universe for a true Scottish Hound, but then I found out that they only come as bits of white fluff on the end of a string!
I have no come back on that.... especially as the dog in our family is indeed a bit of white fluff on a string (sister-in-law's wee Bichon)... called Olaf (yes after the damn snowman!)
Right.... back to the Redheaded Goddess....
How has her training progressed?
I wish I was there to see “Roos lazing around” and to be on the receiving end of “34kg zoomies and random kisses”
How has her training progressed?
I wish I was there to see “Roos lazing around” and to be on the receiving end of “34kg zoomies and random kisses”
She is doing so well with her training in every regard, apart from distractions with dogs and children! She's a gorgeously gentle soul, always checks to see that the life sized Guide Dog plastic labrador's that you drop donations into through the head of are okay whenever we are at the shopping centres! The other week in a costume store she was obsessed with making sure that a little girl mannequin was okay, with gentle nuzzles to the hands! 😍
All the local amenities know her and love her to bits, thankfully people and staff are aware that working dogs are not pets. I'm constantly amazed at how even young kiddies know these things, proudly telling their parents that she is a special helper dog and you shouldn't interrupt them from their work!