What are you on about? Nikon D810 is from 2014 and the D4 is from 2012. These are still great cameras. I shot an event with them on Saturday and the images from them are still quite good. Pro grade cameras age very well. It's the consumer grade crap that isn't meant to last that ages poorly.
I'll probably forgo the A7III and wait for the A7IV if anything to be honest. A7RIII and A7IV would be a killer combo.
There is no way I can justify that cost. I'm not a multiple body person as this is just a hobby for me. I love the idea of the detail with the RIV, but man those files are going to eat up so much space.
I didn't mean the current RIV, I meant the eventual upgrade to the A7III. I'm an event shooter, I pretty much shoot everything on two bodies. I used to use one, but after missing a shot in front of my former boss because I was changing lenses pretty much made me go "yeah I'm getting a second body" real quick. I use two zooms so I'm covered from 24-200 at 2.8 with a flash and primes if I need them. Makes events a lot easier to manage, though if you don't do events and the pace is manageable or at least controlled and planned then you should be fine. Though yeah if you're not freelancing and it's not a job it's hard to justify the expense.
You know it's coming. I don't know if I'm better or worse than these guys, but I don't edit like them.
I await more photos of people's kids and pets in black and white with super contrasty shadows.
Sorry I read that as three or four years ago. Camera generations can get pretty damn weird.
I'm really starting to hate IG trends.
That is when you just become a tripod. This isn't a life goal for me as a creative.
I'm too ADD for film an impatient. I don't even think there's anything wrong with digital unless one really just needs the look of film, my biggest complaint is just all of these stupid trends that look like shit over running the whole thing. I hate how artificial portrait retouching became, I hate the "filters" craze it's just all of these fads that don't create better images.
Then why am I better than these people that have been doing it for I hope way longer than me? Either that or I just refuse to cater to a fad.
A good photo is a good photo regardless of what it was shot on. I don't mind the tech either, I just look at a photographer weird if they tell me they can't shoot an event without IBIS and an EVF. I like the EVF because my exposure needs less futzing with in post, but even when I break out the old Nikons to shoot an event I can still get some good images out of them.
I download an image from the Flickr app and upload from my phone.
You could also just put them in Google Drive and download them from there on your phone.
Down rezes them severely.
It's going to IG, going to look like shit regardless.
I hate my lifefrom the article.
Another shot at 400mm. Sony A7R4, 100-400GM, 400mm, f/5.6, 1/400s, ISO 400. Note that these macro shots were shot hand held. The detail on the bumblebee is great:
100% crop of the focused area on the bee: the wing, and especially the leg covered in the nectar of the flower.
jesus
from the article.
Another shot at 400mm. Sony A7R4, 100-400GM, 400mm, f/5.6, 1/400s, ISO 400. Note that these macro shots were shot hand held. The detail on the bumblebee is great:
100% crop of the focused area on the bee: the wing, and especially the leg covered in the nectar of the flower.
jesus
I do too many events and I'm just not one of those iso over aperture people. My 2.8 gets used often and I don't regret that purchase. If you don't need low light reach for podium speeches or other such oddities for event work the F4 should be enough. I do like way too many events so that F4 was not getting purchased. I honestly would've waited for whatever announcement of third party zooms to get released before making this decision if you have the time to wait or looked into the Sigma Sport version adapted to the Sony. Now if you bought that lens new you probably over paid by $500. I would never buy the F4 new knowing what I know about used prices.
Well, used prices are around 900-950€ in Germany for three year old lenses and it's 1160€ new with warranty. So not gonna save too much there. I took a look at my catalog, while I shoot most of my stuff wide open (because I fucking can) there really is no need for me to do so in well over 90% of usecases (I'm a typical nice weather shooter). If I'm out at night I'll always be packing a prime anyway. And I stopped caring about the noise between iso 100 - 3800.
Sorry assumed you were American. Used here and used over there don't equate to the same savings. If you're 90% nice weather shooter then the F4 should be enough. I very rarely get an event that takes place outside so 2.8 zooms are pretty much my life blood. My last even was 4000-6400 on my Nikon D4. I think my next freelance event is an outside family reunion so that's going to be shot on my Fuji's.
None of my Nikons even have snapbridge. Have you seen what the wifi modules for the D4 and D810 costs?
