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After a little advice here. I fancy ditching my Nikon FX stuff, mainly due to weight. I mainly shoot landscape (inc astro and urban stuff), families (kids running around) and motorsport. So things that are important to me have normally been dynamic range and continuous auto focus ability. More recently, portability has become a major consideration too. I'd ruled out the Sony system previously, mainly on the grounds of auto focus. My intention was to go down the Fuji X-T2 route, and I may still do that but the Sony A7Riii had piqued my interest a little. I've had a little price up of what I'd want/need and it's eye watering to say the least but I recognise that you cannot really compare FF and APSC on price alone. In an effort to keep things portable and affordable (relatively speaking!), I was looking at something along the lines of Samyang 14mm, Batis 25mm, Sony 35mm 2.8, Sony 55mm 1.8.
And then I'd want a 70-200. So my main question at this stage is whether I can save a few quid by going for the f/4 version of the 70-200. I don't see the 1 stop issue being a problem but more concerned about IQ for landscape as I shoot long quite often. Must admit I'd love to be able to save some weight and £'s here but I don't want to be disappointed. Any thoughts?
Personally I think the 70-200 f4 is excellent, I've just bought another one, very sharp and I'd say easily equal to the Nikon 70-200 f4 I had before, relatively cheap used so could try it and sell it on if you don't like it!
IF the a7riii really is twice as fast as the a7rii with the same phase system in all conditions only because of updated algorithms that would be impressive, but id wonder why Sony won't release that as a fw update for the rii if its not hardware based.
I'm a little cautious of mirrorless Af claims.
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