Monday 18 April 2016

Swapping to the Nikon D7000/Sony A7





The D7000 i had a love hate relationship with this camera i found that compared to my D3200 the images where not quite as crisp, obviously the d3200 is higher resolution and slightly newer but i could use the older lenses i had previously bought to the full extent with only minimal sacrifice which was a win win, wasn't it ! i found myself making the biggest learning curves with this camera. It did cost quite a bit over the previous model so i wanted and felt like i needed to make it sing for me and i did get some really nice images from it, i would say it was this camera that made me think now i am getting somewhere. i started to focus more on my landscapes with this camera and i think that is pretty much where i am at now to be honest but it did open up that world with some nice shots. Dont get me wrong if you go to particular places at the right times of day, i.e the Golden hour sunset and sunrise for those who didn't know  then you can get some stunning shots with most cameras, but i started to use my tri-pod more and started to finally use manual settings and manual focus on the camera to get sharp shots, this was mainly because the auto-focus on this camera was was absolute Garbage. It very frequently missed its mark and the image was unusable. I spent the next year taking images with this camera some of which are shown here i used a variety of lenses and i was enjoying it but primarily i was using it for landscapes and it was quite clunky, i decided to look a little further a field and try a different brand. I was not disappointed, i ended up with the Sony Alpha 7  now this camera is not perfect not by any stretch of the imagination it was a real pain for me at first considering the lenses are an absolute fortune for it, i ended up with older manual lenses so i had don the complete opposite to when i started from full Auto to basically semi-auto to Full manual and manual focus. sounds a little like im talking about guns there but i digress, Now that i have given a brief History of where i started and what i up-to these days i can go into more detail about individual trips and how i took some of the photographs you will be seeing including the gear ill be using the lenses and setting that where used to capture the images.if you have any questions or advice you can give to me as i am forever learning then please feel free to comment or get in touch.

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