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It was £379
If that helps
If that helps
See if they'll give you £100 back if you keep it.It was £379
If that helps
Oh dear... Mine looks just about worthless then
See if they'll give you £100 back if you keep it.
If not, I'd send it back.
As @woof woof says, you'll maybe get a decent one without fault for that price if you wait.
Or you could pay an extra £45 and get one of the ones from MPB that are classed as excellent.
Looking at what they're fetching on Ebay, £379 isn't a bad price, but if they've not mentioned the fault in the advert, I'd want something off.
Didn’t you say on here a while back that yours was knackered. It wouldn’t a.f properly etc.
how do we insert pictures smaller? was going to load up a test shot but even after I resized it down it still loaded up as massive on the post!
you will have to export smaller pictures from your processing software if you are using one or downscale.
Nope, still huge...
Resized to 6x4 in PS and still fills the whole screen - ?
Nope, still huge...
Resized to 6x4 in PS and still fills the whole screen - ?
I guess I'll head back over to the Nikon corner with my tail between my legs...
I'll let you know how I get on and if I'm coming back here anytime soon!
No need for the tail. FWIW MPB tend to be careless with their checking of used kit - I bought a lens from them & it was non-functional, as was the replacement they sent. I ended up buying elsewhere, (and that lens had cosmetic damage, but worked fine).
For an original A7 with that on the screen I'd conside Nand's £200-£250 reasonable. Last spring I was considering an original A7 from LCE for £350 in excellent condition, but ended up getting an A7III.
FWIW I moved from Nikon to Sony last year, and found Nikon lenses & adapters weren't *great* to use compared to being on a Nikon body. I'd recommend turning off the 'in focus' highlights and instead set up a button to zoom in for focussing manually so you can get it right. The other thing is that a lot of adapters are a bit slack, allowing some lens rotation & even wobble, which is simply poor.
Thanks that's very helpful. I also wanted the A7iii but got fed up waiting to save enough £! I was also undecided as to whether to get the D750 instead and tbh I still am (I need to be careful or I'll be getting kicked out of this thread!)
I took a few shots this evening when I could find enough light... it's quite noisy this camera isn't it?! I think I was expecting better - when I brought some ISO400 into LR I had to bump up the NR to 35/35! Not something I'm used to with my Nikons and they're both DX - is it something to do with the Lensbaby Velvet? I use a Lensbaby Sweet35 on the Nikons and they seem fine with that one - no noise. I will try again tomorrow with better light but I must say I feel a little but disappointed tonight - not been a good day really as I had been wanting an A7 for over a year and finally got one and it's not gone as well as I'd hoped.
That’s exactly what I thought it would be. It wasnt going to be cheap especially when you consider the price of the 1DX3.R5 may cost around $6K
https://www.canonwatch.com/canon-eos-r5-price-around-6000-leaked-retailer-information-suggests/
Well that'd put it squarely out of my reach :-/
Well I'm afraid my foray into the world of Sony has come to a rather unexpected halt - I had been charging the battery and once done I switched the screen back on to find the dead pixels twice as bad as before and spreading across the screen... Definitely a fault and it's going back. With no Sony, the Lensbaby is also going back as are the two spare batteries! So that's £670 back in the account for another day - well maybe it's just as well times being as they are - maybe the Universe is trying to tell me something...
Bye all and thanks for your help - maybe I'll be back on the A7 thread again at some point!
Shame you’ve had a bad experience, disappointing when that happens, especially as you’ve been saving for a while.Well I'm afraid my foray into the world of Sony has come to a rather unexpected halt - I had been charging the battery and once done I switched the screen back on to find the dead pixels twice as bad as before and spreading across the screen... Definitely a fault and it's going back. With no Sony, the Lensbaby is also going back as are the two spare batteries! So that's £670 back in the account for another day - well maybe it's just as well times being as they are - maybe the Universe is trying to tell me something...
Bye all and thanks for your help - maybe I'll be back on the A7 thread again at some point!
I'd be requesting that they swapped the £379? Body for one of the £424 'excellent' ones for your trouble!! Or at least a £424 one for £400 or something......
Shame you’ve had a bad experience, disappointing when that happens, especially as you’ve been saving for a while.
TBH I’m with Twist in that if it’s a choice between the D750 and A7 it’d be the D750 all day long. I personally didn’t have any interest in the A7’s until the mark 3’s.
Didn’t you say on here a while back that yours was knackered. It wouldn’t a.f properly etc.
They are bigger/deeper but I would say still on the small size. What camera(s) are you used to?Already missing the feel of the metal body in my hand...
I did love the way the A7 felt to handle and the grip is perfect for me and my small Woman hands - it got me thinking...
I've seen so many complaints about the A7 grip and how it's too small for 'normal' hands. Well almost everything in the world is designed for Men (including PPE but let's not get distracted...) so it's nice to find something that - albeit accidentally - caters for Women!
Now I'm looking again at saving up for the A7iii - have they changed the grip to be bigger now for 'normal' people (i.e. Men) or is it still nice and compact like the A7 I'm reluctantly sending back?
They are bigger/deeper but I would say still on the small size. What camera(s) are you used to?
About the size and grip. To me the A7 is the size of the film slr's I had years ago so I don't really think of it as being small, it's DSLR's that seem big to me.
I believe the later bodies are a bit bigger. Have you looked at this comparison site?
https://camerasize.com/compact/#487.394,777.394,181,ha,t
That’s exactly what I thought it would be. It wasnt going to be cheap especially when you consider the price of the 1DX3.
I've just ordered a Sony A7 ii from John Lewis for next day delivery
Better buy some more lenses now...
It was all the hype without any mention of price that made me think all was not as it seemed (unless this is an amnestying at fake news and wham...... it’s only £2k on release).I was hoping (suppose somewhat unrealistically) for $3500-4000. At which point I can hope to get it in used markets for £2-2.5K in a year or year and half. If it starts at 6K then that's like 2-3 year at least before I can afford it by which time there will be something better around anyway.
I am all for manufacturers making really awesome bodies with over the top specs like GFX100 for example. But if you price it out of the reach of masses then it may as well not exist for majority of the people. The reason A7III sold so well was because it was affordable and did everything decently well. At 6K I bet any manufacturer could make a equally spec'd body.