Advice on buying a standalone camera

[Tedeschi76]

Hi folks,

Many years ago i had a Fuji s3 pro as well as a Pentax 6x7 medium format camera. However, I have just been using either whats been an iphone 14 pro max or currently the s24 ultra. Just bak from a lovely city break in Gdansk where I saw many tourists with what looked like Fujifilms, Sony Alpha cameras etc.

My budget is around £600 used and wondered what would be a great all round camera and lens for portrait shots and general landscape photos. Been looking at Fujifilm x-t20 as well as used Sony A7ii cameras. Any advice would be greatly appreciated as i feel out of the loop currently.

 

[ancient_mariner]

By standalone, do you mean essentially a 1 camera+lens solution? If you fancied a Sony A7 series then I'd recommend the A7III because of better battery life, AF and IBIS.

For your budget I'd probably look at an Olympus M43 type cameras: E-M5 or E-M10 with a 12-60mm lens.

 

[woof woof]

If going for Micro Four Thirds and if going for a zoom I'd recommend a 12-35/12-40mm f2.8. I'm not really a zoom person myself but I can see the attraction in going for a more do it all zoom lens but if that's the case I think MFT needs help when compared to larger sensor systems and a quality lens with an aperture of f2.8 or wider helps for both IQ and depth control.

 

[realspeed]

Alan
Sorry to disagree but the image quality, at least from my Panasonic G9ii, is as good as any FF camera. Yes small sensor is not as good in low light agreed,but the advantage far outweight the disadvantages. I could go on about videoing at 300 fps or dual image stablisation- or weight reduction-save on a USB drive direct- from a USB port etc etc. A lot depends as well on the lens not just the camera, I have had absolutely terrible lenses and also ones so good they blew my mind

I think your statement is far removed from, what at least this camera of mine is capable of. The question I have to ask is "do you own one, or just quoting from whereever"?

This of course is leaving out colour redition which is among the best as well

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To Darren I say take a look a The panasonic earlier G9 camera. you won't be disappointed. Any make of MFT lenses can be uses

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