How do you find it so far? I am tempted to pick it up as a hiking lens.
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How do you find it so far? I am tempted to pick it up as a hiking lens.
Cheaply built (very plastic) compared to the Zeiss or the Sigma Art range, focus ring turns the wrong way and also in the front instead the back ring. So it's double wrong way round.
Optically and size it is brilliant. It zooms internally vs the external in the 16-35. Size is perfect for the body. Although the rear lens cap is deeper than the Sony ones.
However it isn't that much difference I feel in the 17-28 range, like I want it to go a bit more but it does pair well with the 28-75.
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Waiting for WEX to get the Tamron 17-28 back in stock, they have offered me a half decent price on a couple of bits to lessen the blow to my wallet.
Which small body camera would you recommend instead?
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A7mk3
Not particularly small
Probably a bit more than I was planning to spend, and my g/f doesn't like the idea of an external flash after owning a D3200.
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Had a bit of a result, WEX had an opened box 17-28 (inspected only) with a good amount off so opted to part-ex for that, should hopefully have it for next weekend once the trade in completes.
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There is no seal on the box so that's lucky because you wouldn't even know.
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(or snowing as it was the last time I went)
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Im closer to amsterdam then that place lol!
after 2 months of waiting on pre-order, my camera upgrade has finally arrived
Enjoy
I was lucky to get mine a few weeks ago and I'm really pleased with it. The pixel shift is impressive if you get it right but the Sony software is terrible so I'd suggest third party software for that.PixelShift2DNG and it's presently free.
Thanks.
Shocked at how awful the Sony A7riv is with the Sony 135mm GM 
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Although I will say I really really struggled finding the right settings for BIF. My failure rate was about 80% and normally with my A7iii it's only 20% max. Will have to have a play around.
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very nice
On the stationary bird shots, eye focus yes. On the flying shots I was trying every version of the tracking focus and failing miserably so had animal eye focus switch off. On my A7iii I used to nail 80% of shots. On the A7riv I am only getting abut 20%. Need to spend more time studying the settings. It really shouldnt be worse.
On stationary birds the animal eye focus nailed it every time.
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