J Birn

If you get an a-mount lens, then yes, you need an adapter to put it on any e-mount camera. The a6300 and a7ii are both e-mount. The Tamron SP 150-600mm could work with both cameras, because it is a ...

I have the Sony housing https://www.sony.com/electronics/cyber-shot-compact-cameras-other-accessories/mpk-urx100a

It works with the rx100 V, and has room to have the flash up, and actually lets...

I have a Sony rx100V and the underwater housing. I'm sorry I bought the housing for it -- it's really big, as large as a full-size DSLR, so you no longer are talking about a portable, walk-around...

I upgraded to the a7r3 from the original a99. All my a-mount lenses except for one with screw-drive AF work on the a7r3 with an la-ea3 adapter. And that includes the Eye AF and the expanded number ...

https://www.adorama.com/tm2875soe.html (Mouse where it says "Pre-Order Now Learn More.") Of course today is May 24, and it still isn't in stock at Adorama...

Adorama says "Manufacturer will start shipping this item on 05/24/2018." Does that mean the factory will ship it to them on that date, then they get them and send them out later? I don't know.

Practice as much as you can before you go, so you have time to check your shots against your favorite settings. Shoot raw+jpeg, that way if you haven't gotten started with processing raw files yet ...

For my old camera (Sony a99), I got an under-$800 Tamron 70-200 f/2.8, and I got some good shots with it. I didn't use that big/heavy monster very often though. Even if something like that is ...

The 85mm f/1.8 is great. Reasonably small/light, nice shallow DOF possible, it meets all my needs without being as big/heavy/expensive as some of the other 85mm choices. Of course I said it meets ...

That's good to know. When I first got the camera, I had set it to spot focus, expecting that the Eye AF would move the spot to where the eye was. Of course that didn't work, because the eye AF ...

If you cover the right side of the screen, you don't have to see the price: https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1393495-REG/sigma_135mm_f_1_8_dg_hsm.html

The 24-105 f/4 is a good lens, but only opening to f/4 it doesn't let you focus on one person and blur-out the people in the background quite as well as you might be used to. It certainly doesn't ...

Use AF-C mode. Use Focus Area: Wide. It's OK to have the touch screen active, but be sure to reset it so it isn't focusing on a selected point. Hold down the custom button (that you defined for Eye ...

For a fixed location at a great distance, you could also look into using a telescope and mounting the camera to it as you would for astrophotography. That might not be very portable and wouldn't ...

With the a7r III, if I'm shooting in Aperture priority, I always use a min. shutter speed for the Auto ISO. I even have Min. Shutter speed for ISO mapped to the c4 button in the lower right corner. ...

Adding a zoom would be great, it would be a much more useful photographic tool if there were more focal lengths available (especially considering that a drone can't get very close to many subjects)...

Even at its widest aperture, the rx100 IV isn't usually going to put your background very far out of focus. With a 1" sensor, the f/1.8 would give you even deeper focus than you'd get at f/4.5 on ...

If any of your a-mount lenses are full frame, then they would work well with an a99 ii or an a7r iii. (If they are for APS-C, then you might be better off selling them and getting some new, ...

I've been only been shooting with my new a7r iii for a few weeks, but when shooting compressed raw I already ran into some artifacts in one situation (Christmas lights photography, close-up of a ...

You should get full frame lenses to take advantage of your new camera. (Even if you had bought a full-frame Nikon camera the same would apply, it's not even about the adapters when you have APS-C ...