Looking to upgrade from the a6300. I mostly take family and lifestyle photography and would love a body recommendation. I'd also like a new lense, I purchased this as a beginner in 2017, I am majorly overdue.

I am in a bit of a dilemma, I currently own the Sony A7iii and a Fujifilm X100V, and I use the Fuji as like a „Travel Cam“. With my Sony I do most of my professional work, I shoot mostly photos on events but I also do a lot of video work for a agency. Here comes the problem because the Sony is only 8-bit its a pain in the a** to color grade also the video festures are not „great“. So I was thinking of Upgrading since I also want to start filming my travels a bit and the fuji is also not really good with video, I thought of buying the Sony ZV-E1 but then there is the not so good photo feature but i could bring my A7iii to shoot photos… The other option was the Sony A7cii has 10-bit good Photo and good Video features, but I do see that this Camera gets a lot of hate so idk if this is a good choice. So I thought of the Sony A7iv wich is almost the same as the 7cii but bigger… So what would be a good fit for me?? And what are youre expperience with those cameras…

Shot on an a7iii

Sunset in Porto; 3 images; -2,0,+2 ev; a7c; Tamron 2875 g2;

Any tips on how to edit it better?

i’ll be visiting tokyo next month hoping to take photos of all the christmas decorations! along with some portraits. plan to do carry on luggage and looking for advice on a minimal setup.

my current setup: a7rv, 24-70 2.8 gm ii and 50 1.2 gm.

any thoughts on if i can get away with one or the other of my lenses or need both?

my setup is pretty heavy already. open to purchasing a better suited one lens setup for my trip as well. 24-70 makes more sense to me but worried i will miss out on lowlight from my 50 prime because i think tokyo at night would look incredible. any input will be appreciated for those who traveled there before to capture city during the holidays! thanks!

The first shot with my A7C2 + FE40mm F2.5

Taken with the NEX 3 and a TTartesan 25mm at f/4, 400 ISO 1/25s

We do steep uphill 10-12 hr hikes, we move fast to cover large distances, I am the only one into photography, so I have to work extra hard as I stop and take tons of photos and then have to catch up the other hikers.

So continuously changing lenses and carrying heavier lenses is not an ideal option.

I am finding that I carry the Sony a6500 with the kit lens more often, and I am leaving behind the Sony 10-18 f4 and Sony 18-105mm f4 lenses.

Every one shits on the kit lens but after post-processing the images I seem to be satisfied by the results. I have printed photo books for myself and friends, and they absolutely loved them.

I like the fact that I can take landscape shots in the mountains at 16mm but then zoom up to 50mm for taking portraits of fellow hikers in such a light & small package.

My simple question-

a) What would you consider is the absolute sharpest and fast landscape lens for Sony Axxxx? Prime!

b) What would you consider is the absolute sharpest and fast landscape lens for Sony Axxxx? Zoom!

I am traveling and I have a problem. My Tamron 28-75 lens is not working properly. First of all: I can't change the aperture. I see the f-number changing, but nothing is happening. I do hear a click-like sound. I think the aperture blades are not moving. So I can only shoot on f2.8, since it's stuck.

But the biggest problem : most of the time the screen will go to black when I make a photo. It takds a few seconds before the camera takes the photo (like it's a long shutter shot, except it's not). This happens pretty much every time I use the camera (afterwards also auto focus won't work). I have to reboot the camera several before it works again. Whenever it works and I don't turn the camera off, it works fine.

I have tried another body, and the problem is the lens. I tried cleaning the contacts. Send it to repair is not a option right now since I am traveling. Would like to use the camera the rest of the trip. Is there any solution or setting to bypass this problem?

Hi everybody, I'm new here and I'm looking for help to buy my first full frame. There is a guy who is selling a A7M2 with a 50mm lense for a good price on a French second hand website. The issue is that the menu and settings scroll by themselves, he says it's as if a button has been held down, or there's a software problem. His profil is safe, and the price is sooo good, so I wanted to know if somebody knows what's going on with this camera, because I think that that's not that big of an issue.

Hi there,

Whilst hiking, with a peak design slide, my 20-70 zoom creeps as I am moving around. I have the lens and camera off my side facing downwards. Bit unfortunate it doesn't feature a zoom lock. How do I prevent this? Any clips I can attach to hold the zoom in place... It's a very lovely lens in every other aspect.

I think my SD card has Died or failed Completely. My Angel Bird V60 MK2 128GB went in the washing machine like a week ago but after getting the card back from my friend i used the card and the card worked perfectly. While filmiing on Friday 8/10/24 the camera would all of sudden stop recording after two or three seconds and after i removed the card from the camera and reinserted it back into my Sony A7IV the card stopped being detected by the camera. My camera gave me two Errors. The First one being, "Unable to read memory Card" and the Second being "Memory Card Access Forbidden". I Tired Plugging in the SD card into my main laptop and the laptop did not read or find the card at all. I tried on another laptop and this time it detected the card as a USB drive: "USB Drive (D:)". The laptop says that the card has Zero bytes and Zero Free space. The Drive can't be accessed either. I have owned the Card for less than a year, i bought it on April 8th, 2024.

is there anything i can do about the Card or is buying a new one an only option?

The paragraph above is the one i sent just now to Angel Bird Support through their website.

A7c2 and 40mm 2.5 g

I understand that the lower (faster) the aperture, (f1.4,1.8,etc) the most depth of field it creates. Does that mean that in order to get a super sharp photo with everything in focus, I should make my aperture as high (slow) as possible (f22) ?