Recent content by Will James

Anybody own the tamron 70-300 4.5-6.3 for use on their Sony APS-C?

Sounds good. Out of interest, why not go for the 70-300 G to give you flexibility if you ever go to full frame, or are you sure you’re not going to FF?

Hi, thanks for the reply. Were it not for the limited focal length vs the 70-350, would you have kept the 55-210? I.e. was the image quality good enough for you. Having looked on Flickr at 55-210 images some of them seem sharp enough to give an overall good quality image, for £150 quid used it...

Last year I finally parted with my 10 year setup (Canon 500D, Sigma 17-50, Tamron 70-300 VC and 50 1.8) in exchange for a Sony A6500, Sony 16-70 and Sigma 30 1.4, with a view I’ll decide on a telephoto later. I’m super happy with the setup except for missing having a telephoto lens. In the...

Thanks all for the useful advice. I used the in-camera sensor cleaning operation first, but the mark was still there. Then I used a rocket blower not held close to the sensor but pointed at it, and now the spot seems to have gone. Relief! I’ll save all of your tips for future reference as...

Hi all, 2 weeks ago I acquired a Sony A6500 from MPB in "like new" condition, a Sony 16-70 used from LCE and a new Sigma 30 1.4. I then tried it all out on my holiday at the lakes last week. Looking through photos from the start of that trip taken with the 16-70 and some taken tonight, I've...

Again good advice, thanks. I've uploaded the first edit to Flickr in case you wanted to see the original and without "forum compression" . I then edited the trees to give a bit more depth / contrast - what do you think? Third edit is cropped heavily more in line with the "vision" in my head at...

That’s great food for thought, advice and feedback, thanks! Casting my mind back I was trying to capture the definition of the various layers that I saw at the time and the gorgeous colours from the sky. I had planned to get there before the sunset to get a far more spectacular photo of the...

Yeah I did - it’s a combo of around 5 exposures. Perhaps naively I thought by having some overexposed shots in there that the trees would have more colour but as there was no light on them it didn’t really make a difference looking at the pics now. However I kept the f number the same throughout

Ok thanks, better now?

Playing with my newly acquired Sony A6500 at the Lake District last week and saw some lovely layers sunset. Got the tripod out and did a bracketed shot. I tried to capture the various layers and atmosphere, have done some small tweaks to exposure and contrast but I’m still not entirely happy...

Hi everyone, So I'm ALMOST ready to take a decision, thought I'd ask for your views one more time. Then I'm ready to take the plunge, I promise :LOL: I waited to see if the Sony summer cash back offer would return and it has. As per my previous post and having reviewed my budget and personal...

Also watching White Lines, not finished it yet. Liked it in the first few episodes but think the storyline is quite hollow/predictable, hopefully gets better

Thanks both. I won’t buy grey as personally I’m not comfortable with it, not within my values. Was just wondering if there was any legitimate way they could be offering the price. The one I saw on eBay was an A7iii + 24-70 for £1440 new - must be grey. I’ve seen that used immaculate ones...

A couple of questions about buying used: Does shutter count matter on mirrorless cameras? I’ve seen that Wex put an estimate on their adverts, MPB don’t. Also I’m guessing the shutter count could be very low if someone has used the camera mainly for video. If I buy one of the cheaper ‘new’...