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So I had to unexpectedly buy a Nikon D750. I was in Bali at Tanah Lot (a temple off the west coast) for sunset, and my D800 with 14-24, on a tripod, on a rock...well, it toppled over as I was climbing down from the rock. I'm still not sure if my clumsy ass knocked it over or if I just wasn't careful enough about how I had it set up as I was climbing down. It landed right on the 14-24, and a chunk of the lens hood took the brunt of the impact. Then it fell sideways from there into a bit of sea water.
At the time, it still seemed to work, I took a few more pictures and everything looked OK. Then later, I noticed the rear command dial wasn't working. As of right now, the lens seems OK with cosmetic damage, and the body seems to be working fine, but I plan on sending them both in to Nikon for repair. But when we got back to Singapore the next day, I went ahead and bought a D750 in a camera shop there to keep me going since I still had nearly a week of traveling and photography to do. As luck would have it, at least I got a really good deal on a camera that seems to be new in box. I paid about $1600 USD for the D750. And I'm actually really, really liking it.
So I had to unexpectedly buy a Nikon D750. I was in Bali at Tanah Lot (a temple off the west coast) for sunset, and my D800 with 14-24, on a tripod, on a rock...well, it toppled over as I was climbing down from the rock. I'm still not sure if my clumsy ass knocked it over or if I just wasn't careful enough about how I had it set up as I was climbing down. It landed right on the 14-24, and a chunk of the lens hood took the brunt of the impact. Then it fell sideways from there into a bit of sea water.
At the time, it still seemed to work, I took a few more pictures and everything looked OK. Then later, I noticed the rear command dial wasn't working. As of right now, the lens seems OK with cosmetic damage, and the body seems to be working fine, but I plan on sending them both in to Nikon for repair. But when we got back to Singapore the next day, I went ahead and bought a D750 in a camera shop there to keep me going since I still had nearly a week of traveling and photography to do. As luck would have it, at least I got a really good deal on a camera that seems to be new in box. I paid about $1600 USD for the D750. And I'm actually really, really liking it.
I just tried to upload one for you but it only allows 1280 res max.I love how the camera thread has no pictures anymore.
May I inquire why?minor update, dropping Canon was best decision i made, still have the 7DII, but that will be gone soon.
May I inquire why?
few changes from last time *
Bodys
Sony a7R III *
no more Canon cameras! Hurray!
do you shoot video? i heard that a7R III is an absolute beast ?
If I had the money right now I would switch from Canon to those Sony's. I'm hopeful Canon puts up a fight in the next few years when I can afford to buy but if not hello Sony.
I'm close; mirrorless is the bee's knees for portraiture.
But I don't just do portraiture, I need something moderately well shielded from the elements, and Sony comes up short(er) here. Also interested in responsiveness, and the Sony's are coming closer here, but I think only the A9 does a good DSLR impression.
May wait for the A7R IV. Don't want to pay for the limitations of the A9, including resolution and below-class weather resistance, and not really willing to step down to an A7R III with even slower responsiveness quite yet myself. A9 is also significantly better with adapted glass, and I'd be doing that for a while myself.
Responsiveness and ruggedness of the A7R III/A9 still fall short of comparable DSLRs (and even other mirrorless formats!) for 'does everything'.
Further, the reason I like mirrorless for portraiture is that composition can be difficult without it. Even the best DSLRs lack the AF frame coverage of basic mirrorless options.
So there's things that they do better, and things that they still need to catch up on.
Bought it. It's ok, still hunt a lot. You still have to move focus to fairly close to where you want then it will find focus.^^Look into TechArt Pro adapters. It adds AF to your MF lenses (in normal range).
Actually you can get adapter to use other mounts also. I had the M to FD adapter for the old Canon FD mount to use with the TechArt. You have to buy the techart adapter to use with the techart pro, otherwise prepare to do some cutting and hacking for the regular adapter to fit due to the base bum.That's nice for special M-mount lenses that never had AF at all- you can get Eye-AF and IBIS!
But this is largely a novelty usage as most M-mount lenses need correction either in terms of filters or changes to the sensor glass for best optical performance, and by the time you've gotten all of that working, you find you'd have been better off with a native AF solution.
[of course, if you already have expensive M-mount lenses...]