The Amazing Sony A1/A7/A9/APS-C & Anything else welcome Mega Thread!

guess it might depend if they give you a really receipt as well as the ebay receipt, think they might treat the ebay receipt badly
 
f/2.8 said:
They don't seem to care where it came from any more.

MPB are not the company they where though. While every business needs to turn a profit they offer a lot less now for most things than other companies. They used to be pretty reasonable.

I got some stuff quoted for recently to trade a few lenses and bodies and MPB on every single item offered at least 20% less than the other companies who I asked for a quote.

Have also seen several people online recently complain about long turnaround times from sending their equipment in to getting paid and others complaining about MPB lowering the estimate once they received the equipment.

Someone told me recently that they purchased a camera body from them and decided after a month that the change in system wasn't for them so contacted MPB to sell it back to them. When he bought the camera it was described as excellent, he took less than 100 photos with it and the camera was spotless when he tried to arrange to sell it back to them. They offered him £500 less than when he bought it and said the condition was no longer excellent just good. He wasn't a happy bunny. They did eventually agree to change it too excellent again but there was still a very large difference in cost.

I also seen recently on here that they where trying to mislead people in their terms and conditions about distance selling regulations.
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Asked them about trading in the brand new and more or less open box A7MKIII i have after 1000 shots as i wanted to trade it for an A9 and they offered £1300 for it,laughed and then asked them to price up my 300mm f2.8 IS L MKII against an A9 and 70-200 f2.8 G master lens lens but once they received it they knocked the price so paid for them to return it.

Wont be using them again.
 
Gadget-Guy said:
Asked them about trading in the brand new and more or less open box A7MKIII i have after 1000 shots as i wanted to trade it for an A9 and they offered £1300 for it,laughed and then asked them to price up my 300mm f2.8 IS L MKII against an A9 and 70-200 f2.8 G master lens lens but once they received it they knocked the price so paid for them to return it.

Wont be using them again.
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That's a joke for an A7iii, they'd list that at 1700 probably more. I remember the days they wouldn't even touch e mount.
 
Going to shoot some hockey with the A9 tomorrow and Sunday - long days 10:30 to 17:00 and 9:30 to 15:00

Should I shoot JPG, set the white balance, fix the ISO - probably 100-400 for outdoors and 70-200 for indoors, but i'll take both and play it by ear..

AF set up?
 
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dancook said:
Going to shoot some hockey with the A9 tomorrow and Sunday - long days 10:30 to 17:00 and 9:30 to 15:00

Should I shoot JPG, set the white balance, fix the ISO - probably 100-400 for outdoors and 70-200 for indoors, but i'll take both and play it by ear..
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You could shoot RAW+jpg
 
dancook said:
Going to shoot some hockey with the A9 tomorrow and Sunday - long days 10:30 to 17:00 and 9:30 to 15:00

Should I shoot JPG, set the white balance, fix the ISO - probably 100-400 for outdoors and 70-200 for indoors, but i'll take both and play it by ear..

AF set up?
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Shoot raw. Afc wide with face detect
What I use for football.

Also I have shot around 2000 images in one football match that lasts for 90 min
 
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dancook said:
Roger that :) what do you have your AF sticky on? recently I put it on STUCK.. as in don't be fooled by other subjects, do I want it on loose AF so that it switches to 'best' option all the time?
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I had it on balance and then on stick. I think on stick is better. Shoot compressed raw. Make sure your lenses are up to date as if it's not. Those lenses won't focus when zooming in or out (a old bug)
 
jj_glos said:
I still can't decided on what camera(s) to sell/keep, that's for sure. Compromises no matter which direction I go :confused:
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Keep till you're sure it's the right move or buy try sell and keep your current till you've decided.

... Or sell, buy, try, decide, sell, buy other. Simple.

Hth :D
 
twist said:
Keep till you're sure it's the right move or buy try sell and keep your current till you've decided.

... Or sell, buy, try, decide, sell, buy other. Simple.

Hth :D
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For more than two years I was struggling to decide between Canon and Fuji, and then I added Sony to the mix... Seriously, what was I thinking?!
 
jj_glos said:
Yeah but that's where eye AF shines, although that is improved on the X-T3 and I don't know I have seen him use it.
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I don’t think it will change his work much honestly. He tends to shoot golden hour, by windows, natural light. I guess we might see more bokeh?
 
twist said:
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Nice
 
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