This February has finally brought some of the changes I’ve been making to my gear to bear. Late last year, I made the acquisition of a brand new Sony a7 III, and with it came the decision that it was high time that I should let go of the past and sell, for now, at least my last DSLR holdout: the 77D.

While it has served me well enough during the time I’ve had it, the 77D has been fully and truly superseded in my gear by my RP and M6 (especially since I added the external EVF to the latter, making adapted EF-S lenses more comfortable to use). In my last shooting experience with the 77D, I found the optical viewfinder way too small, I had trouble focusing, and the rinse-repeat of getting exposure almost but not quite right proved to be too tiresome after shooting mirrorless for several months. It’s not that I couldn’t get sufficiently well with an OVF, but an EVF makes it so much easier and seamless. The shooting experience is simply better.

For some reason, forest and more general nature shots have been more of a challenge for me than cityscapes, and this translated to many, many blurry images of a photo walk in Gatineau Park on that last outing with the 77D. The experience was much worse than what I experienced during my vacation in Washington, DC, where various architectural and city shots were very good overall. Still, with mirrorless, I just get the idea that I shoot much fewer photos to get it ‘right’, which itself results in faster post-processing.

Simply put, the 77D simply did not have a place in my gear line-up and I was able to sell it used for a reasonable price a few weeks ago, of which I am very pleased.

At the same time, I had my first shoot with the a7 III. I had gone out to take a few bird photos in January, but had so far not used it for what I really bought it for: portraits.

Needless to say, I very much look forward to sharing more photos through this website; however the time is not right yet, as I am still rediscovering my own portfolio by re-post-processing my entire library, something that I started when I acquired Capture One and left Adobe Camera Raw behind relatively early last year — I will be sharing my impressions on Capture One and its recent ‘upgrade’ in one of my next posts.

As for the shoot itself, the a7 III performed admirably, with so little time wasted on acquiring the correct focus point (it is the first camera I own which has a joystick, which I’m loving so far), thanks to Sony’s top-of-the-line Eye AF. The vast majority of my photos were in focus, something that I cannot imagine would have happened if I had been shooting with my RP. Some photos were even so sharp that I felt like I should desharpen them, not a common occurrence for me.

In any case, although I am taking more time than I ever thought I would to populate this website, I have now added a Social Media section that is a library of my portrait Instagram feed. I know that I am behind in posting there too, but catching will be much easier (I hope!).