Since September, I've gone A99ii-to-A7c-to-A7riii(a) and it has been interesting.
I don't miss the A99ii at all as of yet. It was a really capable camera that served me well for about four years, but I always missed the small weight and footprint of the mirrorless bodies. It was a seller's market for that body, which was great, and a buyer's market for the glass, which I always knew would be the case upon resale.
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The A7c was a really handy body for me, as I have my one-year-old baby a lot and I wanted to have something quite a bit better than a cell phone to shoot him with on me as much as possible. Over the past few years I had stopped carrying the a99ii with me as much, partly due to the quite OK camera on my iPhoneX. However, the wife wanted more pics on the level of my FF stuff, so the A7c worked out quite well for three months. Having something the size of an a6000 on me all the time was only obtrusive a few times, and the auto-focusing was positively fantastic (at least as good as the a99ii, but didn't get to shoot any sports or wildlife with it) and the articulating screen came in handy. I was struck by how much more solid if felt than my father's a6000 when compared side-by-side, and the battery life was about as good as my old Canon 6D (I never taxed it in my light use). It's low-light files cleaned up great in PhotoLab 4. But then I found out that online sites were starting to clear out their stock of a7Riii(a) bodies, and I made a pretty low offer to Greentoe that was accepted... it was real, A7c, and real good. Thanks for the baby pics you encouraged me to take.
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Knowing that I am very likely going to need either serious reach soon at f 2.8 or f4 ($$$), or enough MP to allow me to crop liberally (42 is a good number), the A7Riii felt like a prudent swap to make. With my Minolta 200 2.8 HS suffering from a busted screwdrive AF motor, and not feeling like shelling out $850 or so for a used Tamron 70-180, I turned to an old lens I had enjoyed using in my Canon days--the 200 2.8 L ii. With the MC-11 adapter, a used one saved me hundreds over that Tamron--we'll if the AF can meet my modest needs. I also grabbed an open-box Tamron 24 2.8 to replace the (very good!) 28-60 kit lens the a7c came with. Tried that out today, and it looks at least as sharp as my old 24 f2 ZA A-mount but the distortion is real if you don't clean it up. These RC cars are as close as I get to driving anything cool these days, but hey--I had to take pics of something other than the baby.
1/250 • f/5.6 • ISO 100
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I'm happy to be shooting again, and the A7c really inspired that. Even though it is just a little bigger and heavier, I do hope the A7riii can go everywhere with me like that A7c did. What a fantastic little camera.
Sony A7RIII, Tamron 28mm 2.8 Di III OSD M1:2, Sonnar T* FE 55mm f/1.8 ZA, Canon 200mm 2.8L ii, Sigma MC-11, HVL-F43M
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