Hi,
Sorry for the overload of information, but I hope it will help.
I’m an amateur photographer. I mostly take photos of kids in the family indoors and outdoors, family outings, and items that I’ve made, such as clothing or baked goods.
I also sometimes take photos of the people and wares at street fairs or farmers markets.
Family documentary photography is something I’m interested in getting into later on, but more for documenting my family’s life and possibly for friends than as a full fledged business.
I owned a Nikon D70 with 50mm 1.8 for about 7 years before the camera died (I still have them actually), an Olympus em10 mark ii with Panasonic 20mm 1.7 for a while, then a Nikon D5500 with kit lens and the aforementioned 50mm 1.8.
One thing I loved about the em10 was its silent shooting mode and small size, but I know the A7 ii doesn’t have silent shooting, and that that feature is severely crippled on the RP.
Over the years I’ve rented a Nikon D7000 with 35mm lens (I really liked that focal length on it), a Fujifilm xt10 with kit lens (I loved it other than the way the noise reduction behaved in low light and a few other small things), and most recently a Sony A6500 with Sigma 16mm 1.4 (my favorite with it other than the size and weight) and Sony FE 50mm 1.8.
I’ve also rented the Canon 5D Mark ii with the Canon 24-70 2.8L and the Nikon D610 with the Sigma 24-35 f2. I found editing to be easier on the photos (I assume partially due to the lenses which I can’t afford but love!) I took with those two cameras and felt a lot more inspired, so I had a lot more keepers. I think that I also like a wider field of view, which those lenses on a FF offered.
I haven’t owned a real camera in a year now and am ready to have one of my own again.
I’ve been waffling between staying with a crop sensor or finally scratching the full frame itch I’ve had since my first camera.
I’ve shot in manual mode since the beginning and love the versatility of raw files, but am by no means even an intermediate in shooting or editing in my opinion since while I have taken many shots that I think are great, I am not consistent and the bad or mediocre shots outnumber them. So I’ll be going over the basics again and hopefully growing from there with my new camera.
I’m trying to decide between the A7 ii with kit lens and the RP body only because I can get them with monthly payments on Amazon, and the A7 ii just went on sale again today.
I’m not a gear head and don’t have the income to buy lots of lenses, so I’d most likely only buy one or two lenses.
If I was able to buy 1 lens under $400 now, and save up for another lens at the end of the year, what would you all suggest?
Sorry for the overload of information, but I hope it will help.
I’m an amateur photographer. I mostly take photos of kids in the family indoors and outdoors, family outings, and items that I’ve made, such as clothing or baked goods.
I also sometimes take photos of the people and wares at street fairs or farmers markets.
Family documentary photography is something I’m interested in getting into later on, but more for documenting my family’s life and possibly for friends than as a full fledged business.
I owned a Nikon D70 with 50mm 1.8 for about 7 years before the camera died (I still have them actually), an Olympus em10 mark ii with Panasonic 20mm 1.7 for a while, then a Nikon D5500 with kit lens and the aforementioned 50mm 1.8.
One thing I loved about the em10 was its silent shooting mode and small size, but I know the A7 ii doesn’t have silent shooting, and that that feature is severely crippled on the RP.
Over the years I’ve rented a Nikon D7000 with 35mm lens (I really liked that focal length on it), a Fujifilm xt10 with kit lens (I loved it other than the way the noise reduction behaved in low light and a few other small things), and most recently a Sony A6500 with Sigma 16mm 1.4 (my favorite with it other than the size and weight) and Sony FE 50mm 1.8.
I’ve also rented the Canon 5D Mark ii with the Canon 24-70 2.8L and the Nikon D610 with the Sigma 24-35 f2. I found editing to be easier on the photos (I assume partially due to the lenses which I can’t afford but love!) I took with those two cameras and felt a lot more inspired, so I had a lot more keepers. I think that I also like a wider field of view, which those lenses on a FF offered.
I haven’t owned a real camera in a year now and am ready to have one of my own again.
I’ve been waffling between staying with a crop sensor or finally scratching the full frame itch I’ve had since my first camera.
I’ve shot in manual mode since the beginning and love the versatility of raw files, but am by no means even an intermediate in shooting or editing in my opinion since while I have taken many shots that I think are great, I am not consistent and the bad or mediocre shots outnumber them. So I’ll be going over the basics again and hopefully growing from there with my new camera.
I’m trying to decide between the A7 ii with kit lens and the RP body only because I can get them with monthly payments on Amazon, and the A7 ii just went on sale again today.
I’m not a gear head and don’t have the income to buy lots of lenses, so I’d most likely only buy one or two lenses.
If I was able to buy 1 lens under $400 now, and save up for another lens at the end of the year, what would you all suggest?
