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Thought I'd do a quick follow, you never know it might be of interest to other newbies
I posted these threads a while back
https://www.talkphotography.co.uk/threads/camera-for-a-newbie.677297/
https://www.talkphotography.co.uk/threads/zoom-lens-to-use-with-a-sony-a6000.681140/
where I was looking for advice on what camera and lens to buy, went and got a Sony A6000 with the stock lens and also got the 55-210mm tele lens.
I first used the camera and lens at my youngest sons graduation and things didn't really go as smooth as I would have wanted, more on this later
In July the wife and I went to Kenya and booked a 3 day safari in the Masai Mara, stayed in a wonderful tented accommodation and overall had a wonderful time. My wife was originally born in Mombasa and hadn't been back for some 35 years so to her the safaris was 3 days of interruption from seeing and meeting her friends She wasn't really interested at all in going on safari and tried to convince me that it was a waste of time but after booking luxury accommodation and a private land cruiser she loved it and is now a convert, we are looking to hopefully book another next year to maybe the Serengeti.
Onto the camera and my experience, I'm not a photographer by any means, last "good" camera I used was a Minolta AF7000 using 35mm film, anybody remember them? One word of advice I would offer is to use the camera as much as you can so that you can get used to it, it's controls and settings. Something which I didn't do and tried it to use it at my sons graduation and missed the important handshake photo but luckily there were 2 so I got a good pic of the other
On safari again I never really played around with the camera which I really should have to both check settings and get used to the zoom and other controls. I ended up taking the bulk of pictures with centred focus and only changed to spot on the very last day which caused continuous problems in focusing on the actual subject, I also discovered that for some reason the camera was left to save in JPEG format and not RAW+JPEG which is what I thought it was set. Last point of note is that the 55-210mm just isn't enough to get good close up pictures, could really have done with a 300mm lens to be honest. I also suffered from zoom lens envy as every other person had "proper" zoom lens but I think these are people who must dedicate a lot of their time just to going on safari.
I took loads of pics and here are some that think are good? Not having spot focus set has resulted in the pics being soft but hopefully when we go to our next, equipped with a better tele lens I'll get better pictures
Not too sure how to upload so I've shared an album using Google Photos, these are untouched, the lion eating in the bush was one that I just couldn't get the camera to focus which is when I discovered the wonders of centre spot focus
https://photos.google.com/share/AF1...?key=d1pHZl94Q01aU0tkNXFlRlJLU1oySDZjTDlaMFVR
I posted these threads a while back
https://www.talkphotography.co.uk/threads/camera-for-a-newbie.677297/
https://www.talkphotography.co.uk/threads/zoom-lens-to-use-with-a-sony-a6000.681140/
where I was looking for advice on what camera and lens to buy, went and got a Sony A6000 with the stock lens and also got the 55-210mm tele lens.
I first used the camera and lens at my youngest sons graduation and things didn't really go as smooth as I would have wanted, more on this later
In July the wife and I went to Kenya and booked a 3 day safari in the Masai Mara, stayed in a wonderful tented accommodation and overall had a wonderful time. My wife was originally born in Mombasa and hadn't been back for some 35 years so to her the safaris was 3 days of interruption from seeing and meeting her friends She wasn't really interested at all in going on safari and tried to convince me that it was a waste of time but after booking luxury accommodation and a private land cruiser she loved it and is now a convert, we are looking to hopefully book another next year to maybe the Serengeti.
Onto the camera and my experience, I'm not a photographer by any means, last "good" camera I used was a Minolta AF7000 using 35mm film, anybody remember them? One word of advice I would offer is to use the camera as much as you can so that you can get used to it, it's controls and settings. Something which I didn't do and tried it to use it at my sons graduation and missed the important handshake photo but luckily there were 2 so I got a good pic of the other
On safari again I never really played around with the camera which I really should have to both check settings and get used to the zoom and other controls. I ended up taking the bulk of pictures with centred focus and only changed to spot on the very last day which caused continuous problems in focusing on the actual subject, I also discovered that for some reason the camera was left to save in JPEG format and not RAW+JPEG which is what I thought it was set. Last point of note is that the 55-210mm just isn't enough to get good close up pictures, could really have done with a 300mm lens to be honest. I also suffered from zoom lens envy as every other person had "proper" zoom lens but I think these are people who must dedicate a lot of their time just to going on safari.
I took loads of pics and here are some that think are good? Not having spot focus set has resulted in the pics being soft but hopefully when we go to our next, equipped with a better tele lens I'll get better pictures
Not too sure how to upload so I've shared an album using Google Photos, these are untouched, the lion eating in the bush was one that I just couldn't get the camera to focus which is when I discovered the wonders of centre spot focus
https://photos.google.com/share/AF1...?key=d1pHZl94Q01aU0tkNXFlRlJLU1oySDZjTDlaMFVR