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Cool story! Yeah its always hard to make switches but I have to ask myself these questions all the time. Am I making money doing this? because all though I have sold prints and have been paid to shoot portraits, I don't make enough to live on. I am a person where I always want the best for the money and just incase I need something, some feature I know its there. I had a 70-200 vr II That was crazy expensive but I bought for the sole purpose to shoot my kids sports...I really did not even use it that much because honestly I just was not great at capturing that moment. I always had issues with focusing so those great shots became just ok shots. Truth is the lens and camera where probably more than what my knowledge of photography is. I ended up selling that and just kept my 14-24 which I used religiously. Well worth the money in my book but, even then in comparison to the Tokina 10-24 I had for my nikon D7000 it really really was not 100 times better. I just got me wider because it was on a full frame and a little more on the wide end. However I did feel pretty cool with that lens on my D700!!!! hahahaha.
When we would go on vacation I would just use my 50mm 1.8 and not worry about zooming because caring those other lenses was just problems on my back and what not. Needless to say I sold all my equipment in like August/September and only used my iPhone 5..as we are coming into the holidays it just sucks not to have a nice quality camera again and why I ventured out again to the web looking for the newest and greatest.......It seems like the NEX 6 is a great alternative to the DSLR. I really wanted the 7 only because its 24mp and their top end model. However after doing much research it seems as thought the NEX 6 is a better buy and can do what the 7 can with even more options. Only downfall to me is the 16mp to 24mp.
Then next step is the Nikon D7100 or go back to the D7000.....
Once again I ask myself are you getting paid? Do you need to spend so much money once again on camera equipment or do you just REALLY need a quality camera that can take awesome pictures easy to take around with so you don't miss all those moments and can do nice portraits for the kids along with HDR. For $749 this camera really is good " I think". But bestbuy has the D7000 for only $50 with the kit lens 18-105...not a bad price at all for something I know will work and has proven to work time and time again while I used it. I actually did make some money using that camera... But then that brings me to the D7100 24mp camera with soooo many new features I know I could take advantage of. It would be more money but probably a great camera to last more than just a few years.
One concern I have from this sony NEX 6 is will it last as long as the Nikon,Canon DSLR's. Or are they just 1-2 year throw away cameras? Do they hold their value if you want to sell them later like Nikons and Canon DSLRs.. I know that I did not lose to much money selling my D700 and lenses at all.
The other thing is I do want to use it for video and that file format sony uses I don't like at all. To much work to get it to edit..where nikon works great and always has. The Sony you can do mpegs but not at 1080p...aaaaa
I could go on and on but I really want to give this Sony NEX 6 a fair shot and here are a few more pictures to critique and share..
Zion 12_11_13 B by
VIPGraphX, on Flickr
Zion 12_11_13 by
VIPGraphX, on Flickr
Shot in RAW (A) post processed in photoshop. Still trying to get used to sony's focusing. Can't argue that the image quality is there!
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