{"id":835,"date":"2018-03-25T20:04:28","date_gmt":"2018-03-25T19:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/murpworks.com\/lightonalens\/?p=835"},"modified":"2018-03-25T20:04:28","modified_gmt":"2018-03-25T19:04:28","slug":"i-traded-in-and-bought-a-new-camera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/murpworks.com\/lightonalens\/2018\/03\/25\/i-traded-in-and-bought-a-new-camera\/","title":{"rendered":"I traded in and Bought a New Camera"},"content":{"rendered":"

I traded in and bought a new camera<\/p>\n

You Did What?<\/h4>\n

Yesterday, I traded in my Fujifilm X100F<\/a> APSC sensor, fixed 23mm lens camera and am awaiting arrival of a Sony A7 III<\/a> Full Frame sensor with Sony FE 24-105 F4 G OSS<\/a> lens. I got a good deal at Jessops<\/a> and this helped with the choice of lens.<\/p>\n

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My decision was not because I was dissatisfied with the X100F. The Fuji is a great camera, excellent quality in image and build – it took beautiful pictures. It’s small form factor meant it could be taken anywhere and, as everyone acknowledges; it’s a great street camera.<\/p>\n

However, mu and I are moving onto a narrowboat and narrowboats use canals; not streets or roads (“Roads? Where we’re going, we don’t need roads.<\/a>“).<\/p>\n

A New Camera – Video-a-go-go<\/h4>\n

I want to develop videography alongside my photography. The plan is to provide a documentary of our life on the canals and also capture the uniqueness of this environment; with murpworks Afloat<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Many people are developing excellent YouTube channels of their life and times on the canals, for example; Country House Gent<\/a>, Robbie Cumming<\/a> , Boatman Benjamin<\/a> and Ben & Emelie’s Captains Vloggs<\/a> but I want to take this in a different direction. One which will hopefully compliment these existing channels. I see the documentary parts being a more POV, rather than self-filming. I also want to incorporate filmic elements in its approach & feel.<\/p>\n

To this end, the X100F was not a video camera. It can film in HD and it can use the film simulations that Fuji are rightly acclaimed for but looking to the future, 4K is the future. 4K is the future that is, until 8K trickles down the food chain and…<\/p>\n

But You Got Rid of the Fuji!<\/h4>\n

In an ideal world, I would have kept the Fuji but in the real world; both financially (I don’t have the money) and spacially (I won’t have the space), I couldn’t. The Google Pixel 2<\/a> satisfies my Instagram quick upload capability and easily allows me to take a picture a day, manipulate it in phone (via VSCO<\/a>) and post it.<\/p>\n

My Nikon Df<\/a> is a beauty to behold and I will use this; with the 20mm lens for Lanscapes and the 50mm for everyday.<\/p>\n

The Sony will be for video.<\/p>\n

Pricepoint<\/h4>\n

Why the A7 III? For its video capability at the pricepoint. Lots of people helped with the decision; people who I’d never met or seen before, in the form of YouTube.<\/p>\n

Of note are<\/p>\n