That pretty much sums up my experience. I have now used the SEL18200LE on three trips to Europe, Mexico and Death Valley. Use it as my walk-around lens. But I also have an old Minolta macro lens and it works with the LA-EA3, but not AF. It does a good job on AE. I also have a "dumb" adapter for my Rokinon Fisheye.

After 45 years of shooting Nikon and Canon (Including D7100 and D7200) three years ago I jumped to Sony. Given what you shoot, "portraits of my daughter and her activities -soccer, LAX, softball, basketball, volleyball and ballet recitals and my basketball cheerleaders." the Sony a6300 has several features that outshine my Nikons. For sports action, the ability to shoot up to 11 fps means that while I throw away 6-8 shots of near peak action, I get the 2-4 shots where the top of the action takes place and all the feet are off the ground, etc. The Eye-AF means I more often get the eyes in focus, even when everyone is moving fast. Similarly, the facial recognition and follow-focus is far better than Canon or Nikon. The cameras (I have both a6300 and a6000) handle faster and are lighter.

If the evangelists for 35mm (FF) convince you, then you could try the Sony A7's, but I have seen no great advantage for most work. My photography continues to be considered for hanging. People pay for it. When it isn't, that's the fault of the photographer, not the camera.

Wow. Those have gotten down in price. When I looked at them to bind some reports--about 10 years ago--they were $150+-

As I have shared here, I have just purchased a very high capability new computer. I now back everything up to two separate identical USB drives (I run the backup program twice to do it.)

Your NAS is a better solution. I'm going to begin thinking about that. It has several advantages. Everything is always backed up constantly but without the overhead of something like the over the Internet storage services. Secondly, it makes everything available to all your devices either through the local network or via the Inet.

You didn't mention which NAS box you are using. There are several "inexpensive" ones on the market.

It's not odd, but perfectly rational. Until the last 10 or so years, 97-8% of the market was PC. If you are writing hacks and malware, where would you put your energy? The bad guys have the same decision that other software people do. That led to the misunderstanding that Mac are impervious to viruses. Not so. In the last 10 years, Macs have increased to about 8-9%. Predictably, there are now about 20-30 serious Mac malwares coming out each week.

Best source of information about malware is Sophos regular newsletter "Naked Security".

I hate being agreeable, but I agree.

Do you ever miss? Another great shot. Beautiful woman, of course, but great lighting. Just enough fill.

Interesting. The only Adobe I'm using is an old copy of Bridge which works w/o the CC. Affinity has had no trouble opening all my Sony raw files. Bridge sends them directly to Affinity in the Develop persona. I haven't tried any other raw files, like all my Nikons and Canons, but I've been working on my images from my trip to San Miguel de Allende and Affinity has done a great job without TIFFs or any other intermediate steps.

Yes. Call Cameta Camera. Speak with Enzo. You could get a Nikon refurb D3400, add either a Sigma or Tamron macro lens refurb. $500 may be just a bit too little, but you should get close. The guy is not a "heavy" salesman. He seems to know his stuff and I've had several good dealings with him. Tell him David from San Rafael referred. I've bought several cameras from him.

I have used several of these things including Vello. They all come with a small cable to plug between the receiver and the camera. That cable is key. If you get the wrong cable, it won't work. They could have shipped the wrong cable--that happened to me with an Oppilas. With the Vello, when I changed cameras, I just ordered the right cable for my Sony. It worked immediately.

Or, for $50, cut the cord to the Evil Empire and try Affinity Photo, or ON1 or . . . The $10 has already gone up down under. It will here too soon. And the alternatives are better. (Affinity's Inpainting brush makes mincemeat of PS's tool.)

First, what Jerry said. But second, the D90 may not be able to use a 64 gb card. I had a D90 and it was a great camera for its day. I was using 4 and 8 gb cards in it. I'm not sure, but I think there is a technological change.

That's why I left Adobe earlier this year and moved to Affinity, which actually does better anyway.

Wifi is an individual thing. While my Sony a6300 and a6000 both have built in wifi (Also communicate directly with my Samsung phone) I almost never use that feature. I almost always shoot raw and post=process. Take the card out, put it in the computer.

On the other hand, both my daughters love their cameras and use the wifi to send images on ???Instagram, FB, etc. One shoots a D3300 with an EyeFi card and the other a D7100 with a Toshiba Air ??? something. Their images are immediately on the cell phone and they can send them.

Don't confuse yourself with this "crop factor" nonsense. A lens is a lens. Once I learned that I could print 20x30 wall prints from my Nikon D90 (Back in the day) I just learned to use the lens that gave me the image I wanted.

Yep. LOL.

I'll tell my story and you may understand--and may disagree. Back in the 1980s, I left a consulting gig and began learning about computers, eventually became one of the first Novell people. The Apple II+ was big. My friends, who were computer nerds (I was actually a psychologist by professional training.) and electronic engineers. They designed, built and began marketing an interface to put a hard drive on the A+. Apple came along and offered them a few thousand dollars for it. When they asked for more money, Apple simply reverse engineered it and started selling it. Even had the chutzpah to write my friends that if they didn't stop selling theirs, Apple would sue them.

Probably, with enough money and lawyers, my friends might have prevailed, but they didn't have money and lawyers--Apple did. This became standard operating procedure for Apple. Law suits were their way of keeping their prices high and stealing any ideas they could. (This includes the mouse and the graphic interface.) There were hundreds of stories like this, not all, but many of them true.

Eventually the S100 bus died and the PC bus was invented by IBM. IBM was too big for Apple to treat this way, but IBM was also too hidebound to see the need for graphics. The PC bus, unlike the Apple Mac, allowed for great variation and invention. Also IBM did not impose a high tariff on innovation. Microsoft did move into graphics and Windows began. Unlike the Mac, the ambition was that with proper care, anyone could design and build products and programs for Windows and PCs. That made things a little dicey at times, and it took many years to tame the beast, but Microsoft succeeded, IBM dropped out and into other fields, many other companies like Dell, Azus, Acer, etc. took the hardware field. Competition kept the price low. (Note my machine is not top of the line, but beyond almost any Mac.) But good companies did prosper.

I went back to psychology after getting my Microsoft and several other certifications and selling my computer business.

Any PC you buy has an upgrade path that is reasonably unlimited. Any Mac will cost 3x the price for similar computing capability and will be limited as to upgrade. It will also use as much proprietary component as possible. Apple continues to make a large sum of its profits by maintaining a very large legal department and suing or threatening everyone around. This has actually worked well for Apple's shareholders, for the public, not so much.

So, if I spend $1000 (And I really could do "OK" for half that.) and you spend $1000 on a Mac. I will have a game level machine. You will have a toy computer.