MikeTakesPix

Should grab a Tamron 28-200 zoom, it's basically a f/2.8 from 28mm to 70mm, making it great for indoor use... and then when you're outside and have the sun, you've got f/4-5.6 for days in the ...

Love the Tamron 17-28... I use it most often for astro/nightscapes. It's a great lens, and not super expensive. I also have its big brother, the 28-200 - but that's more of a daytime walk-around, ...

I love my 17-28 Tamron. Use it for night landscapes and astroscapes.

I keep it simple. A majority of family snapshots are captured by my wife's iPhone or mine, but in terms of my Sony "big camera": A7C Tamron 28-200 (my do everything, Zoo/Disney/birthday party lens) ...

I shoot the A7C with the Zony 35mm 2.8, the Tam brothers 17-28 & 28-200, and sometimes, my Sigma 100-400. It handles the zooms beautifully. I use it mostly for long exposures at night and yes, ...

If I primarily shot birds, I'd stick with an APSC camera like your A6600, it's going to give you much longer reach. Personally I enjoy long exposure nightscapes, thus full frame as a preference for ...

Placed 15^th in the challenge. Got out to the dark skies of the Florida Everglades this week to do some stargazing. Setup my timer and gazed into the heavens =)

Placed 15^th in the challenge. Love stargazing in the Everglades right after dusk.

So it's interesting. The A7C is an amazing imaging machine as you'd expect from Sony... but that's just it, the user experience is much like using a computer for me, and then out comes an image to ...

Likely so. The 100-400 weighs about 2.5 pounds, easy enough to walk around with a good cross-body strap. I wouldn't call it light, but doable. The 150-600, don't quote me, is like 4.5 pounds. It's ...

The Sigma 150-600 C was made for this purpose. Gently used they're not very costly. The issue is size/weight, they're not small... so I recommend the 100-400 a lot more often and to just crop in ...

35mm 2.8 is the way to go. The Samy used is ~$175, the Zony used is about $350-400. I prefer the Zony, better flare resistance at night and a tad sharper with better micro-contrast when wide open ...

My dad taught me how to home-process black and white film when I was a teenager. It's a great feeling to see those negatives drying. I have done color with him too, but blix is a righteous pain in...

The X100 series is a great choice for a contest like this. Its constraints are also what makes it so wonderful.

Nice review! Welcome to a wonderful hobby. I can tell you the A7C has very adequate weather sealing. Florida has fairly torrential rains from time to time and the A7C handled it beautifully. I’ve ...

Grab the Zony 35mm 2.8 for $350 used. It’s a great little lens! I know the Samy 35mm 2.8 is similar for about $175 used, but in my opinion the Zony has far better flare resistance at night. That ...

Not that I need 600mm (I cheat with my wife's A5100 and Sigma 100-400), if I did need 600mm, I'd pick the native lens any day. Adapting a DSLR lens  at focal lengths above 300mm seems really silly. ...

My two cents here. If you're going to make money from your camera gear to eat with or pay critical bills, don't downgrade your body - keep it, or leave the system completely. Selling an A7iii used ...

Yeah, but I’ve had a 70-200/4 Sony G... for my limited use of portraits, I can sneak by on my 85 1.8. The 70-180/70-200s, while awesome, wouldn’t get the use they deserve.

I already have the 17-28 and the 28-200, seems like a waste.