I also have no space for an enlarger and the chemistry, etc.
I shoot 35mm but my Friend has mid format hasselblad, mamiya6 with all 3 lenses and a large format Toyo + lots of Olympus OM1/2 and Nikons plus a huge professional scanner from the 90s.
If you are interested have a look at
Analog Insights youtube channel
I am a terrible photographer, well, maybe that is not true, I should say that I have no patience for taking photos.
Not long ago I got a Nikon (canât remember the model) as a camera for work projects, with various lenses etc. I have no idea if the camera is any good or not as I just followed the advice of one of our employees that is a hobbyist photographer.
When I need to take (work) photos, I either get him to do it or I just set the camera to Auto. The most I will do is put it on a Tripod 
The thing is, when I was a child, my grandfather was passionate about photography and I spent hours with him as he set up for a perfect (to him) shot of a leaf. That is probably why I ended up having no patience He also used to develop his own photos in the cellar (basement to those of you on the other side of the puddle).
Anyways, when he died (many many years ago) I ended up with his cameras as nobody else was interested in them and they werenât really worth anything. Currently I have a few of them in a display case in the hall. I have a box with more somewhere.
[irony] Please excuse the crappy phone photos, I didnât have a camera handy 
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Iâm convinced that âRicohâ was started as a brand that when pronounced with certain asian accents sounded almost indistinguishable from âLeicaâ, said by the same person.
I did take a business stat course from a Japanese grad student that kept referring to âHoffaâ, this in the years just after the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa. I was mystified for half the semester, after which I learned that Hoffa is the first letter of the Greek alphabet.
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I finally got a reasonable space to take photos. Itâs amazing how much of a difference a little bit of natural light makes. Iâve spent way too long taking photos with garbage softboxes blowing out highlights. I canât wait to take more with this setup.
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I keep looking at A7iii and A7riii kitsâŚbut I have other expensive purchases coming down the pipe in SeptemberâŚand Iâve already spent my play money budget this month/allocated it to purchasesâŚ
What camera(s) are you using again @Resolve?
Fuji X-T3 at the moment. Itâs decent for the price. If I were to go Sony Iâd wait for the next A7s version to come out. The low light capabilities are pretty crazy.
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I am a huge Fuji Fan. Colour science, aps-c lenses of very High quality, ergonomics, the heritage and the design.
Shot long time the XT 2. You beeing a Video+Photo guy, the XT3 is a very good solution.
My best buddy shoots only analog and bought a old Sony 7R for a macro project with an cheap adapter for Nikon lenses.
I donât like Sony but the price performance ratio is crazy. They bring out New cameras very often, so the new ones loose worth at the blink of an eye.
Canât take their âproâ approach serios because of bad support, but lots of pros do.
The money you spend less on the older version, you could invest in better glas or light.
Even a reflector or diffusor can make a huge differnce. If you are interested in less blown out highlights and brought up shadows⌠we use sunbounce but there are cheaper alternatives. As mobile setup a sun-mover pro zebra gold/silver and the silver version or only the silver + any diffusorâŚ
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Wow, stunning picture.
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I loved the Fuji X series stuff. Until not so long ago I had the complete system (all lenses, and what were the latest bodies at the time, the X-T2 and X-Pro2). The only reason I didnât keep it was my addiction to shooting with fast-glass. By the time I was done with that, and had compensated for the APS-C FoV crop, I wasnât saving any space or weight.
In the end I went back to full-frame.
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I think this is what Iâm running intoâŚIâve been playing with the Kamlan1.1 on my GX9 and it is extremely fun to use, but has its issuesâŚmy problem moving forward is, do I need the 40+megapixels of the A7riii or would I be completely satisfied with the 24mp of the A7iii and save $800+ to put towards âaâ lens (holy crap Sony lenses are expensive!) and not even a very good one just âgoodâ lol.
Iâm fully in the novice/hobbyists range when it comes to photographyâŚ
Iâm thinking the GX9 is perfect for quick on the go photography, while the A7iii/A7riii would be more âtargetedâ use case.
Iâm also thinking of getting the older, but bigger brother to the GX9 the G9 as a slight upgrade secondary camera that I can still use my current lenses with.
Especially since I just picked up the new Kamlan lens from (Mass)Drop.
This is all just testing the waters as my play money funds are tied up in future audio and other hobby purchases for the next two months though =) so Iâll be researching cameras 
and comparing etc until I drive myself crazy with it and just buy one.
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If youâre shooting f/1.1 glass for depth-of-field control (i.e. getting a shallower depth of field) then that Kamlan f/1.1 on your GX9 is equivalent to an f/2.4 lens/apeture on a full-frame body (due to the MFT sensor being a quarter the size of the full-frame one). So, technically, you can look at the smaller-maximum-aperture lenses ⌠which will be a lot more reasonable in price.
Fast glass on full-frame cameras is definitely expensive.
If youâre shooting wide apertures because youâre shooting in low-light, then youâd still need the wider aperture glass on full-frame.
A7iii vs. A7Riii trades resolution for innate noise. In other words, a RAW shot, straight off the sensor on the A7iii should exhibit less noise than the same shot, identically exposed, capture with the A7Riii.
This is one reason why Sony offer a lower-resolution âSâ version of some cameras ⌠to get better low-light performance (the lower resolution allows for larger photo-diodes, which collect more light and consequently their SNR is higher).
Whatâs interesting is that if you resize (via a proper resampling algorithm, like those in Photoshop or Lightroom etc.) a 42MP image from the A7Riii to the same 24MP of the A7iii not only is visible noise as good or better but apparent sharpness is higher too.
If youâre shooting JPEG files, then the built-in, automatic, noise reduction is so good at this point that you can shoot at ISO 8000 with the A7Riii, at full resolution, and still get clean shots.
I was originally going to buy the A7iii (partly because I wanted the updated autofocus with more frame coverage and focus points) ⌠but you couldnât get them for love nor money, so I opted for the A7Riii instead. Though now I have it, I make use of the extra resolution a fair bit.
Once the recently-announced A7Riv is shipping, I expect there will be a lot of A7iii and A7Riii popping up on the used market, as well as making appearances in pretty aggressive deals.
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Thatâs what Iâm hoping for, B&H has a $500 off deal right now on the A7riii.
But I will keep an eye out for deals and on the used market.
Iâm not too interested in bundle deals as so far in my experience⌠I so far, havenât liked the glass bundled with my past two cameras.
Iâm mostly interested in the full frame due to enjoying the photography hobby and wanting to expand on it. Iâll be keeping my GX9 as I really enjoy it as a fun quick portable camera.
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On the GX9 you have a propper Image Stabilisation for Video- with some lenses even combined top IS.
So you can shoot without a gimbal or tripod
The small form factor is nice with m43 lenses and you can cheap adopt old Canon FD glas for example.
I loved the Olympus OMD line for looks and usage with the flipout screen. A friend of mine borrowed it to us with lots of fast glas like 75 f1.8 and 12 f2.
If you upgrade, keep the m43 if possible.
Shooting a Fuji like XT3 is also another experiance with the ergonomics- all is manually adjustable on the cam like ISO, Shutter and your f-stop
No digging around in the menue. Sony has a strange menue.
Upgrading to full frame is dependent on usage- could make sense but you have to carry around the fast glass
If you shoot weddings or other indoor dark stuff you wonât come around in the end.
We do shoot weddings analog and Digital.
In old times we had only the 5d2 and the 7d
So I loaned a 5d3 and 5d4 for better focus in dark revenues⌠later bought it. We used the XT2 as 4th cam but you see the limitations the moment you have to deliver and in the editing process. More keepers are possible if you know what you do.
You come to the point, where you need good reliable AF, fast shutter speeds with high iso at f1.2 or f1.4 and are not allowed to use strobes or LEDs
Most of the time you wonât need it
Most of the time it wonât make any sense shooting all your shots wide open. That is nice to have for specs.
But even f3.5 for example is âwideâ with full frameâŚ
(With our 85 f1.4 I shoot portraits a bit closed down or you miss focus on the eye brows while the eye is in focus vice versaâŚ)
âŚand you get the shot of a moving subject while f1.4 can be too wide open. Just for fun get the DOF app and calculate your depth of field with your GX9 and a Sony 7R XVIIii wide open with Portrait distance and the similar glas available for both (2xcrop with m43)
To come back to fullframe: Yes you pay for it and carry around weight and your shoulder bags grow because fast glass is most of the time build for full frame. Even if you decide for an APS-C cam but buy full frame glass cause there is not much APS-C native glass available.
Going for more megapixels can bring you less keepers because of the higher pixel pitch- in the beginning.
You have to shoot 1/500 with a 70-200 on a 46mp body where you could come around with 1/250 on a 24mp cam. Your flexibility with closed down shots shrinks because higher mp wonât allow you closing down more than f5.6- with a 24mp cam you can use f11 and your pictures donât get Soft closing down and you have more depht ov field for landscapes. No focus stacking or less needed.
So if Sony 7- I would have a look at A7III or 7s with less mp
If the other functions like spread of AF points etc fits your needs.
The APS-C Sigma Glas like 18-35 f1.8 is half an exception to what I wrote about native fast APS-C glas.
You pay for it and itâs not small nor light.
That is why I love the Fuji System.
56 f1.2 or 16 f1.4⌠loved my 23 f1.4
itâs native APS-C Glas with wounderful colour science, microcontrasts and it stays small.
Today carried for over 2 hours a full frame body + APS-C Body with 6 fullframe lenses + action Cam and drone in 31° around. - just for fun. Shooting young dogs running around with me crawling in the dust
It is hillarious
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You guys see the new a6600 announcement? I might have to go full Sony as I could easily interchange between the A7iii and the a6600 with batteries and lensesâŚvery coolâŚhmmmâŚbut the GX9 is still very portableâŚdamn it photo hobby is creeping on my wallet!!!
@taronlissimore you thinking of upgrading to this new a6600?
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I was somewhat excited about the potential of the 6600 ⌠though something was bugging me looking at the leaked pictures.
Then I realized what it was âŚ
Sony, the bastards, removed the bloody built-in flash! 
Thatâs probably a deal-killer for me on a smaller body. Not withstanding that my leaning towards shooting wider-angle lenses means buying E-series glass in addition to my existing FE stuff, to properly take advantage of the size reduction, which isnât very appealing (especially not when I will now also have to carry a flash).
So for opportunistic/take-everywhere stuff Iâll probably just stick with my RX100 MkVII (and also take the Mk V for lower-light situations) and the RX10 Mk IV when I want extra reach.
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bit dissappointed of Canon 90D and M6II
6600 is ⌠a Sony
Panasonic S1H on the other side⌠nice FF with 24.2MP
-6EV AF is what I need
this sounds quite nice
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Very nice. I was about to make a comment about large format film earlier in the thread. Largest Iâve played with was a 5x7 Sinar, but I was friends with someone who loved his 8x10 Linhoff.
Not very portable, but then he wasnât trying to do sports photography.
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Thank you - yes it slows you down. Love it
The Toyo is not mine
My Buddy has also the Linhoff, Mamiya 6, Hasselblad, Contax, Yashica, Olympus, Nikons, Canons, and so much more in best condition. ⌠He also builds his own 4x5 rangefinder out of parts and own designed partsâŚ
If you are interested - take a look at his and Max youtube channel âanalog insightsâ
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