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Dansa Photography

By Dansa Photography, 1734620888

Hi everyone.

I’m looking for some advice.

I currently have a Sony A380 (it doesn’t fly as well as the airbus version).

I’m looking to get a new camera and have a budget of around £1000.

I shot all different styles but I find my current camera isn’t very good for sports photography as its shutter speed is not particularly fast and will take a shot every second/second and a half so I miss some action parts.

Also, studios I have been to never have an adapter for their lights that seem to work with a Sony (granted only done a couple of studio shoots)

Any advice is greatly appreciated.

Huw said, 1734621350

https://www.mpb.com/en-uk/product/canon-eos-7d-mark-ii

https://www.mpb.com/en-uk/product/canon-eos-rp


Huw said, 1734622714

The 7D was a good sports camera.

Buy used - so many bargains out there at present with the move to mirrorless.

I had a pair of RP bodies and loved them, but they aren't the most modern mirrorless. Again, a bargain.

Simon Cole said, 1734624076

Personally, I prefer to shoot Nikon and Fuji, but if you wanted to stay with a Sony system I can heartily recommend the a7iii as I had the use of one for a while and was seriously impressed - low-mileage examples currently on eBay for about £800.

Jonathan C said, 1734626537

The A380 is a fairly old APS-C A-Mount model - it also had the old iISO hotshoe, which was completely different to anything else (you could get decent triggers for them, Pixel King made a set, but they were more expensive than many, and not that easy to find).

What lenses do you have for the camera?
There are some A-Mount lenses that can be reasonably easily adapted to the current Sony E-Mount cameras, and which will perform well, but there are also a number of 'average' lenses where you'd probably be better off selling everything and starting from scratch!


Abbey A said, 1734627393

"it doesn’t fly as well as the airbus version".....

Have you tried putting it on airplane mode?

(I'll see myself out)