I’m a Nikon shooter…..ehm, I was a Nikon shooter 🙂
In autumn 2023 I sold all my Nikon gear (D800 with 24-70mm f2.8, 70-300mm battery grips, flashes …) because I was almost only using a little Sony mirrorless (Sony A6000) for several years now for my private shots, like on family holidays, smaller trips, and even for all my Iceland photos you can see here on my webpage.
Being used to shooting mirrorless I wanted something with more playroom for ISO noise, larger pixels, a little bit more resolution than 24 Megapixels. So I decided to sell all my Nikon DSLR stuff (it still made good photos, but it was slow and bulky) and bought a Sony A7 IV with a Sony FE 4 / 24-105 G OSS. Latest lens additions are a Sigma 16-28mm F2.8 and a Tamron 50-400mm F4.5-6.3.
Range now from 16-400mm and in the meantime some Viltrox lenses like the 85mm f1.8 and 35mm f1.8.
(photo: Sony.de, Tamron and Sigma)
What I love about this camera:
- silent shooting mode
- excellent image quality
- fast AF, fast enough fps for my needs
- marvellous autofocus
What I don’t like about this camera (only minor things for me, otherwise I wouldn`t have bought it:
- Viewfinder and Display (they look so cheap and are so small)
- shooting only 6fps in RAW uncompressed (you have to set to RAW compressed to get higher fps)
- crop in 4K Video (but I don’t use video so much)
- related to the size the grip only fits to three of my fingers (large hands), the pinky is always free
- Using the viewfinder does not work when the display is flipped out in an angle (rotated or not straight 180°)
Additionally I’m using an L-bracket from Smallrig now with a mount plate compatible with my Ulanzi F38 System and additionally Arca Swiss
All my stuff is packed in a PGYTECH OnePro Ultralight , the 30L version in Misty Green backpack, which I found as best fitting, with some room for more equipment to come and still affordable. There are many other backpacks, especially way more expensive ones, but this one seemed to be the best option for me at the moment.
taken on a trip in Ireland in Summer 2026
As a tripod, I`m using a lightweight carbon thingy, the Rollei Easy Traveller XL in grey. Fantastic build quality, lightweight, compact, integrated tripod head, what else.
(photo rollei.de)
Due to the fact, that there is big market for adapters for manual lenses for almost all manufacturers, I have a bunch of old vintage lenses and adapters for several different lenses, like Olympus, Tokina, Pentax, Nikon, M42.
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