Sony Lounge Thread MKIII (All Sony cameras welcome)

David Arbogast wrote in post #18925381
Your house is a mobile home?! I had no idea. I love the way your house and neighborhood looks.

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This cost of living thing is the biggest reason my wife and I hope to settle in Mexico. Houses are affordable, property taxes negligible, utilities and healthcare very low (especially areas like Ajijic with perfect climates that don’t need AC and very little heat), and food is 1/3 the cost of the US.

Another reason is that being bilingual has been proven to be excellent for brain health. My mom has alzheimers and I want to fight getting that myself with diet, exercise, growing new neurons, etc. My wife and I will always be English speakers, but to also be a functional Spanish speaker we need that same immersive experience in a Spanish-speaking world as we’ve had with English.

Thanks. I suppose the PC way to describe my home is to call it a 'manufactured' home. I'm also fortunate to be able to finance my home through CalVet with a very low interest rate and low property taxes. Being a Vet also provides me with decent healthcare with only a small co-pay. Because it does get hot here during the summer, my electric bill can be high for a couple of months but I budget for that all year so I never have to stress about paying the bill.

Don't ask me why but I took two years of French in high school instead of Spanish.

Ok falling in love with this camera

The shutter sound alone and the feel.

Just an FYI with the 64gb card says I get 593 shots at raw compressed and jpg fine

AlanU wrote in post #18925335
Sadly 1.5+M is the price of an average home in Vancouver BC. Leaves little room to buy camera gear

Used to think this was the case about myself, I learned from growing up that a house should cost three years pay.... Not happening in my area, yet when it was low, I got in and it will go down again, need rental property next....I need to retire early...

navydoc wrote in post #18925359
I feel I'm extremely fortunate to have been able to purchase a mobile home on land 15 years ago. It's in a neighborhood, not a park. I have sidewalks and curbs and no space number. Now that I'm retired, I'm glad to own a home with little maintenence. I have no garage but do have a small workshop with power and a large covered carport. There is also a large, covered patio for grilling or just enjoying a sunrise or sunset.

Oh, my monthly mortgage payment is less than my car payment at just under $600. per month.

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My property tax is near that much lol. But my mortgage is seriously winding down and I won't have a mortgage one day soon.

eriet30 wrote in post #18925403
Ok falling in love with this camera

The shutter sound alone and the feel.

Just an FYI with the 64gb card says I get 593 shots at raw compressed and jpg fine

The shutter sound does sound extremely refined. I noticed that immediately when I was testing went the a7r4 at the camera store .

Still on the fence in picking one up tomorrow. Apparently camera shops will have a lot in stock pre-orders are very small

TRhoads wrote in post #18925262
Liking the first one here a little more...but both have great atmosphere...looks like a great place to spend some time.

Thanks Travis. I've been trying to grab several slightly different shots when I find something I like!

Choderboy wrote in post #18924379
My A9 customized itself today. Looks like I get to try out Sony Warranty procedure.

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I had low expectations so no surprise:
Sony asked for photos for the purpose of determining if I had damaged it. I sent them 3 photos from different angles that show a camera that appears new condition with not a mark anywhere. They responded saying I damaged it.

I'd say odds of causing the mode dial to come off by abuse but not leaving a mark anywhere else on the camera would be quite small.
We have 2 years warranty in Australia. The camera is 10 weeks old. Imagine if the camera had 18 months of normal wear and tear!

navydoc wrote in post #18925359
I feel I'm extremely fortunate to have been able to purchase a mobile home on land 15 years ago. It's in a neighborhood, not a park. I have sidewalks and curbs and no space number. Now that I'm retired, I'm glad to own a home with little maintenence. I have no garage but do have a small workshop with power and a large covered carport. There is also a large, covered patio for grilling or just enjoying a sunrise or sunset.

Oh, my monthly mortgage payment is less than my car payment at just under $600. per month.

That looks like a good place to me.
I can go into smug mode. I have paid my mortgage off, but given the price of the new properties in my area it is amazing.

TRhoads wrote in post #18925256
cool! Nice to see another racecar fan in here, keep me company! I will be flooding the place with racecar images in about a months time...

Well the A9 makes it so easy ! The 200-600MM is just the lens to have when you get results like this, I've even been thinking about selling the 100-400.
The 400 or 600mm primes would be better but I cannot afford them.

Here is another one.

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gaabnz wrote in post #18925312
Auckland is just as bad, its crazy now. People are having to borrow 7-8 times salary to get a place.

My house has over tripled in 18 years. My kids have no chance of buying

I think with your kids it will be a matter of you needing to have the money to lend them for the deposit. I used to work in a bank branch and the majority of people who got loans and were under 30 had their parents as guarantors and providing a deposit.

rantercsr wrote in post #18925316
I used to say one day ill own a home here in nyc(queens ny to be specific)…

I laugh at that dream now.. so we stay in a little one bedroom co-op.. paid in full, no backyard , no man cave for me its more like a man corner in the living room.. but the way homes , no matter how modest in any decent neighborhood are priced , i'd have to become an overtime slave at work to own a home

And once you save up enough for the deposit on that place you want, the minimum would have gone up too and you would forever chasing it. It’s crazy how expensive things are now.

Charlie wrote in post #18925328
I'm pretty grateful to own a home with manageable mortgage in Socal, got in right at the best moment when housing tanked, my home value nearly doubled in seven years..... now I can no longer buy in my own area unless it drops again. My brother got a place near Bankstown in AUS, paid 1M+, he's royally screwed. If he leaves the house, bye bye equity, and if he sells, bye bye equity because it's on a slight downturn. Just wait it out a bit, save up, and when people start to abandon the market, that's time to get in. Seems simple, but not knowing where the bottom is can be scary.

Yeah I remember I have friends who live in Bankstown and got a 3 bed house which was really old but huge land for $900k and were ecstatic and everyone was impressed by it. The apartment we stay in is a 1 bed studio in the CBD and was 800k which is considered cheap by Sydney standards.

In Perth WA, you can get a 2 bed apartment in the CBD for only 550k purely because there’s nothing to do there and no work.

Well Iv had my a7r4 a couple of days but only have a 28/70 to use as i'm waiting for a 200/600
Of cause it all feels odd ( my first sony ) and will take a bit of time to understand and set it up .
Rob.

Two deliveries from Mr Postman and Mr DPD today.....

rantercsr wrote in post #18925316
I used to say one day ill own a home here in nyc(queens ny to be specific)…

I laugh at that dream now.. so we stay in a little one bedroom co-op.. paid in full, no backyard , no man cave for me its more like a man corner in the living room.. but the way homes , no matter how modest in any decent neighborhood are priced , i'd have to become an overtime slave at work to own a home

I'm in Toronto which along with Vancouver has the highest property values in Canada, nothing compared to the top ten cities on the list but I feel really sorry for this next generation nevertheless. Entry level one bedroom condos are all over $700,00.00 and homes in the city are all over a million, a 1.2-1.5 million dollar home in the city is basically a shack to demolish and build new, a decent house will start at 2 million. Wish I had invested more in realestate back in the early nineties when I bought my house, homes have increase 10X in value over that period.

eriet30 wrote in post #18925403
Ok falling in love with this camera

The shutter sound alone and the feel.

Just an FYI with the 64gb card says I get 593 shots at raw compressed and jpg fine

I'm curious about the amount of spacing between your fingers and the lens mount with the new larger grip. I always feel it's a bit cramped especially with some of the larger lenses.

Miranda1 wrote in post #18925694
I'm in Toronto which along with Vancouver has the highest property values in Canada, nothing compared to the top ten cities on the list but I feel really sorry for this next generation nevertheless. Entry level one bedroom condos are all over $700,00.00 and homes in the city are all over a million, a 1.2-1.5 million dollar home in the city is basically a shack to demolish and build new, a decent house will start at 2 million. Wish I had invested more in realestate back in the early nineties when I bought my house, homes have increase 10X in value over that period.

Seeing how much it costs to rent a mere cot in a shared living space in Hong Kong is horrifying...we’ve started living a dystopian future already.