Originally posted by LeDave All of my Pentax gear are gone now. I am now almost a full fledged Sony shooter...
I've never shot full frame before, been Pentaxian for 9 years with APS-C only. K-2000(K-m). K-7, K-5, K-3, and having just recently swapped to Sony full frame, my first full frame (Still awaiting for the A7iii to ship). I've spent a lot of time in some of their community and especially the a7iii Facebook group. Wow, I have to say though, if there were such a religion called Gearheadism for Pentax and Sony only, it would be at least 75% be made up of Sony shooters. It's a huge jump from Pentax to Sony, not just camera-wise but community-wise. Being on Pentax forums for awhile, I can definitely say the community here contain a lot less of a gear addicts. Sony shooters, at least their full framers, are very proud of their equipment, expensive equipment. Now I am only comparing Sonyians to Pentaxians because I have never shot with CaNikon before. But wow... still, the differential between Pentax and Sony communities are quite substantial.
I am still awaiting for my a7iii with the 28-70 kit lens, having already bought a 70-200 f4 G. I've been researching a lot on the 28-70 glass and it is a solid performer, not bad at all. But from through researching, I also see that people talk down on this lens like it's the very ultimate omega wolf in the pack. From forum posts to comments on Youtube videos, they like bashing it and acting as if it's the worst thing to come out from Sony full frame lenses. It may be not as good in comparison to some other Sony lens but it's in no way bad at all, not at all from what I've researched! This lens is stellar especially for the price.
Last thing, they are rich! You'll only know if you ever become a Sony convert, I am done ranting here. Gearheadism. I guess I'll get used to this community. I mean I am a gearhead myself, not to the extremes though. Although swapping to Sony, I am going to spend a lot of time here because it's where I feel I belong most of the time when it comes to talking photography.
As long as the gear you buy makes you happy and you bought it because it has all it needs for the type of photography you do, that's all that matters. I shoot with a lot of cameras despite that I own a very capable Canon full frame camera and I can tell you that there isn't anymore an APS-C or full frame camera from competition about which I can say that it produce bad images in terms of IQ (as long as you know their limits of course
). There are a lot of people who like to pixel peep images but at the end of the day their images end up resized for web and most of the times those images are also distroyed by Facebook algorithms.
When I stoped searching for the best camera in the world, I started to enjoy photography. I enjoy shooting with Fuji, Nikon, Sony, Olympus cameras (despite that EVF gives me headaches) and with every new camera that I shoot with I realise that I have more than I already need.
If there is something that I wish to see in the new generation of photographers, well... I would love to see young photographers interested in taking unique images instead of being more and more interested in having the best dynamic range, the best af, the biggest resolution...
You will like A7 III in terms of af and image quality. You just have to adapt your shooting style a little because it takes a little to become familiar with the menu, with the placement of the buttons, with the handling, the EVF, etc.