How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Mirrorless
A week before Black Friday, my wife informed me she want to buy me a new camera for Christmas / Anniversary. Being not stupid, I said okay and off to Henry’s we went. (Side note: If you’re in London, ON visit Avan at the Henry’s South location, he’ll take care of you) As a Canon guy I immediately thought about the Canon 5Dmk4, a great upgrade to my current camera(s). It was on sale too. I had it put aside for pick up the following week.
I got talking with Avan over text and he suggested I check out the mirrorless offerings from the different companies and specifically Sony. I did a bunch of research and then went back to the store a couple days later to play with the Sony’s hands on. They were smaller and had a weird menu system that makes no sense to anyone, but the performance was good. I shot in one of their back rooms at ISP 6400, brought the image into Lightroom, zoomed in times 3 and could read the text off the shelf tags. I was sold, it had great low light performance and an AF system that was supposed to be top notch.
I decided on the Sony A7R3 body and Tamron 28-75 f2.8 lens as a starting place.
I’ve watched hours of video and read a lot of articles to try and get up to speed on the new system. So far I’ve shot some pro mma, a pet / owner portrait session and some portrait work with a model. I’ll be shooting a dancer and some fitness work this week on the new system. I’ve been really impressed with the face and eye auto focus. Now that I have those optimized I’m looking forward to a lot of tack-sharp images.
Tony Laramie - MMA in Windsor, ON
Amanda and Callie
Model on black background
- Mark Ruddick Photography - My images are an exploration of the human body under muscle stress — understanding the body’s strength, flexibility, and power. Creating these images has given me a better understanding of the human form which has transitioned into my commercial fitness work.
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