The Gear i use Now

The Gear i use now

Now after all the previous gear in my possession i pretty much got rid of it all and started again, now having a little knowledge of photography and how cameras work i decided to get myself a Sony a7. Its a lovely camera it does have its faults and they are pretty annoying BUT!, in the types of photography i have been doing more recently it has been a joy. So the faults well..Make sure you take plenty batteries as they are very poor and it also has some pretty Poor lens choices and this is a widely agreed view of this camera series and the ones that are available are pretty damn expensive, now i know that Sony has just released the G master series and they have also announced a native 50mm F1.8 lens which will be affordable for us mere mortals, I will be getting this for definite i need a walk around lens with good auto-focus to capture certain scenes, now i could get the Zeiss 24-70mm F4 or even Sony's Kit lens But the first is to be honest to expensive and from the vast majority of reviews UN biased ones that is, it does not have that typical Zeiss image quality and is just a little sharper that the standard kit lens Sony produces for this camera. So why not the Kit lens ? Well i had the kit lens when i first got the camera and i thought this looks okay build quality was not the best but image quality was decent, the auto-focus worked fast and it seemed a good stop gap. Key word there Seemed! it broke within 2 days, now maybe i had a lemon and maybe it was a fluke but i just cant have unreliable kit like that so that went back and i had to ponder on what to do next. I liked the camera but at the moment i did not have a single lens so i started to do some research into what lenses and such would fit, to my surprise basically any lens ever made will fit this camera with the relevant adapter of course. so i started shopping around for used gear and i picked up a Minolta 50mm F1.7 for £30 bargain and a Minolta 28mm F2.8 for £25, now this i could get used to vintage lenses for the price/performance had massive gains over more modern lenses. It gave me a chance to experience different types of focal lengths at a reasonable price and led me onto the lenses i use today, they are Samyang 14mm F2.8, Vivitar 55mm f2.8 macro, Canon 70-200F4 L this is my main walk around lens at the moment, sigma 400mm f5.6 Prime and last but by no means least a Voightlander 21mm F4 color scopar lens. This is the choice i made and honestly it very well may change in the future i currently use all these lenses FULL MANUAL that is the camera settings, focus,and aperture selection. Everything i do currently is my own choice because i am enjoying using the camera in this way and i am getting some fantastic results from it also. In my next post ill be detailing the first real trip i took this camera on and the challenges i faced in the process, Hopefully this will help some of you choose what lenses and maybe Bodies you want. 

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