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TiffanyPoodleslide
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Aug 15, 2017
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As an art photographer, who has worked with the Sony line of alpha cameras,( since they were Konica Minolta and before...), I can say little but GOOD things about this camera, and its family. I have passed on the much-hyped other brands, because, after trying them out,(there's a rental agency that I use for lenses that I can't afford, and test driving other brands), I return again and again to my Sonys. The format is excellent, the mirrorless build is FAST and lossless in quality. No vibration is a GOOD thing. That MASSIVE and WONDERFULLY flexible LCD monitor is a huge selling point, too. It's great to be able to see what you are snapping when you are holding your camera above your head! In response to some folks concerns, I can say that I use every one of those MPs for some images; I do a lot of wide and ultr-wide weather shoots and landscape work. I load all of my photog work onto an external 4TB hard drive...so that should be noted if you work RAW. I do, and my bread-and-butter lens is an UltraWide 17-35 Sony AF, so I am USING everything that this can do!
I don't need to buy this camera, as I am already well equipped with my Sony cameras,( I am running with the 7 and the 9 and the 900 and the 850), but I can say that you will not miss the exaggerated pricing of Nikon and Canon and how much more expensive their accessories are. All of my older Konica Minolta lenses still work on the Sony bodies, which has saved me THOUSANDS. Over the long haul, these cameras have served me well. The photography mags all rave about the Sony alpha line. The bodies are durable, easy in the hand,and, as a VERY manual shooter,(think old-school-still-shoots-film), I love the external buttons-accessible functionality of these cameras. I am not going to do a spec by spec review here, as you can find plenty of intelligent reviewing all over the internet. I am just chipping in my two-cents as a Massdrop community member already experienced with this camera vs. other brands in the same functional bracket. That cost MUCH MUCH MORE,mostly because of their NAME. You are paying for NAME with these others, and I got tired of doing that....
Fuss about other price-tags all you will,(funny how there are ALWAYS people doing that here), this is a decent price, filtered through a reputable merchant, unlike much of the ebay "risky proposition" sales......... I, myself, when looking for savings, visit B&H, or Adorama...they even sell through Amazon and ebay, so I know my cash isn't at risk. I have found some CRAZY bargains there on their home-site, many lenses and cameras get re-sold by them from folks who's eyes were bigger than their wallets, buying much more camera than they really could ever need. You don't need a camera like this for taking pictures of your kids on a plastic swing-set..... ;)
Again; Mirrorless is an AWESOME technology! The build and electronics quality is unsurpassed, really. If I didn't already have the same camera, I'd snap this up, ABSOLUTELY. No matter where you buy this camera, and at what price, it's truly a gem purchase, worthy of the superlatives used in describing it.
Aug 15, 2017
TiffanyPoodleslide
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Aug 15, 2017
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TiffanyPoodleslidep.s. you can wait PERPETUALLY. There will ALWAYS be a biggerbetterfastermoreamazingmodel coming along. Sometimes...you just GOTTA JUMP. Otherwise, you miss MUCH .
Aug 15, 2017
Gnarled
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Aug 30, 2017
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TiffanyPoodleslideBut with the A7R III basically around the corner, doesn't it make sense to just jump then rather than on the A7R II now?
Aug 30, 2017
Lindseyp
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Sep 2, 2017
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GnarledBetter to get the older ones now that the bugs are shaken out and prices are dropping.
Sep 2, 2017
kangster
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Sep 6, 2017
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Lindseypprice will really drop just when the A7R III comes out though ;-)
Sep 6, 2017
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