Seeking Nikon to Sony Transition Advice

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  ltcelvin on 15/01/2020 - 11:54

  +1

  From what i know, you can definitely reuse your lenses but you need adapters obviously, i dont use any but heard alot about metabones, you can look that up. One of the great reasons to use sony is it’s in-body stabilisers, so anyone with legacy lenses or lenses with no IS would benefit from this.

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    chasis on 15/01/2020 - 11:58

    I've heard that the AutoFocus on 3rd party lens for for Nikon F mount dont function on their new Z mount mirrorless series. Just curious if it was similar moving them to Sony.

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  jerome38 on 15/01/2020 - 12:07

  +1

  I had the same question before and ended up with Z6 instead of A7iii. It’s because I have invested in Nikon glasses and selling them and transitioning to Sony lenses would cost me a lot because I need to sell it at low cost coz they are used and I will need to buy very expensive G lenses.
  Sigma I believe has a program to send back lens then remount it to Sony.
  But stay with Nikon, man. Better colours, better glasses.

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    chasis on 15/01/2020 - 12:09

    I had two reasons for wanting to goto Sony rather than the Z6/Z7:

    • I've heard that the AutoFocus on 3rd party lens for for Nikon F mount dont function on their new Z mount mirrorless series. Most of my lenses are 3rd party. :(

    • AutoFocus on the Sony looked a lot faster and accurate.

    How have you found the Z6?

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      jerome38 on 15/01/2020 - 12:19

      +1

      My wedding photographer partner has Z6 and full sigma lenses and works better than his D750.

      I have Nikons and Tamrons. Tamron 70-200 works fine as well. For my 35 i have to send them to have it updated.

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        chasis on 15/01/2020 - 12:41

        Thanks. I might reconsider. I have Tamron 70-200 too.

        Do you know much about the process for sending them in to have firmware updated?

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          jerome38 on 15/01/2020 - 18:24

          @chasis: you can drop it off an authorised retailer, as I was advised. But i’m too lazy to drop it off. Hahaha!
          A7iii does not have a robust touch screen as Z6. wink. Ergonomically, Nikon is better. Image quality becomes subjective at some point but they should be really close.

          I suggest going to a store and compare z6 and a7iii.

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  [Deactivated] on 15/01/2020 - 14:05

  +1

  Went from Nikon D7 to A7iii.

  Tried with adaptors for a bit but felt clumsy and realised there's no point upgrading the camera and having it take shots through dated lenses with an adaptor.

  Unless your lens collection is expensive, vast and you use all of them, it is better to just consolidate by selling the lot and starting again.

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    chasis on 15/01/2020 - 14:49

    Thanks Tshow. Good advice.

    I didn't want to drop the cash to buy 5 lenses straight away. I wanted to buy my most used 1 or 2 and then use the adapter for the rest until I slowly phase them out.

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    eggboi on 16/01/2020 - 19:46

    What tshow said. I just switched from nikon to sony as well. I looked into the adaptor route, but it just seems too clunky and unreliable to trust when shooting professionally. Then if you have compatibility issues down the track, there's a lot of troubleshooting to even know whether the lens, body or adapter, or simply a combination of any of these is the cause of the problem.

    I agree that nikon mirrorless is better ergonomically, but they really shot themselves in the foot with a single card slot, and the choice of Z mount lenses is currently too sparse. In 5 years it'll be a different story, but people are not going to switch from sony back to nikon unless they revolutionise cameras the way sony did with mirrorless.

    I'd also like to add that I was surprised by a nifty feature of mirrorless that I hadn't considered - shooting fast primes in crop mode. Yes you can always crop later, but it's much more useful to have the viewfinder show you the cropped framing in the moment you are composing your image. So cool to have a 24mm f1.4 that is also basically a 35mm f1.8 if you want (still almost 20megapixels when doing this on the A7R3, or 26megapix on the A7R4). By shooting with a 24mm f1.4 and an 85mm f1.4, you essentially have 24, 35, 85 and 135mm at your fingertips, with a two camera setup.

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  Thrawn on 15/01/2020 - 18:43

  +1

  I shoot underwater. Housings for D750 is much larger and more expensive. Mirrorless is much easier to handle…

  Personally I would stick to APS-C sized sensor. Underwater you are always shooting with small apertures to maximise depth of field (you need to shoot very close).. so there isn’t that much advantage having full frame and fast lenses. Plus it’s much cheaper and lower risk in case of flooding.