Nikon D850 has not got the Sony sensors and sales are doing well, there may be life in the old dog yet.
I've had to many problems with my Sony camera, battery life and power up lag are the two main areas I would like to see addressed, I've missed far to many shots because of them. I'm thinking about giving Canon try because of their superior L lenses, but so far I'm not impressed by the build quality of the body's, felt plasticity to me.

I went from the D7200 to the Sony A6000, I think your move is a great idea, I'm putting money aside for the move back. Battery life is killing me among other things.

It's a hypothetical question, as it is nobody has sad anything camera wise that I've not gone over myself. I'm buying the Sony Alpha 7r hopefully.

I was thinking about becoming a pole dancer lol

Lol I was just thinking that.😃

Three years ago I decided to purchase my first DSLR Camera it was a Nikon D3100 with the 18-55 kit lens. Within two months and with a lot of help from the Internet I had learnt how to use my camera in any of them modes it had to offer. Slowly bit by bit my kit grew in size, first a lens then a tripod, then another lens and a better more expensive tripod with matching ball head quick release mount, a sling back type bag for quick access, an sb600 flash slowly a second one followed then a flash trigger and 2 receivers. This was only about 8 months into my Journey. very dear friend of mine lent me his Nikon on D5100 for a couple of weeks while he was on holiday, it was great so much better than mine, it had a built in interval timer so I made a timelapse movie, the lowlight capabilities were outstanding compare it to mine too. even little things like the screen resolution on the back blew mine out of the water.
It was almost a year later I finally upgraded my body, it felt like forever before I could afford a new one, well what with buying myself a Lee Filters foundation kit and 7 different filters, and not forgeting another lens (macro this time) my kit was getting to big for my bag. Well the day had come, my new Nikon D7100 was here, but what's this, it doesn't fit in my bag, I needed a new one, I also treated my new body to a new lens, a 70-200 f2.8.
I finally solved my Nikon D3100, 2x lenses and first bag to my nephew.
In October last year I went to Florida for three weeks and took most of my camera equipment and a lens that I borrowed off a friend for wide-angle landscape photography, most days I found myself going out with just one lens and the body. My kit had become to heavy, and if I'm completely honest a real pain in the backside to the point where when I got home I put it all up for sale.
Well this was back in November, and last night, after I had completely forgotten all about it being up for sale, completely out of the blue I got a phone call saying they wanted to buy the whole lot for almost the price I had asked for. I got a say I did overprice it a little bit just in case I had sensible offer.
When I was in America with all my kit, going out daily with only one lens on my camera even that started to get my nerves, so on a couple of occasions all I took with me was my mobile phones camera.

So what to do now with all this money?
do I buy another DSLR and have it sit indoors while I'm out having fun with my phones camera, I absolutely love photography but do we need all this kit. Come on guys what's your opinion what would you do with my money if it was your money to spend?

I picked up a camera just under 3yrs ago, and jumped into manual mode from the off because I wanted to understand more. I find now if I let the camera decide it tends to opt for higher iso first imo, like in the days of old we would decide our ASA (iso) then go shot. The only time I really feel like I'm shooting in full manual mode is when I'm doing night photography and long exposures, this is the only time I have an edge on my uncle who only uses auto mode, also in low light his flash pops up and Imo kills his shots over mine, but on normal everyday occasions auto mode or a mobile phone camera can produce an amazing image, someone told me your not a real photographer unless you print and sell your images, he didn't say a thing about auto or manual, (he's an award winning wedding and portrait photographer who uses all modes and shoots in JPEG and sometimes RAW) everybody has a camera nowadays but only some are photographers.

Composition and understanding light is so much more important.
Don't be lazy with your interpretation.

I only ever use manual mode because I never want silly camera to decide what it is that I want to Do

I think I'm going to agree with this statement. There's far to many videos on YouTube saying that Muslims should join the fight against any non believers, well I'm not religious in any way and people like me are also their target, Muslims are not peaceful people even those that say they are are far from it, The Quran contains at least 109 verses that call Muslims to war with nonbelievers for the sake of Islamic rule. Some are quite graphic, with commands to chop off heads and fingers and k**l infidels wherever they may be hiding. Muslims who do not join the fight are called 'hypocrites' and warned that Allah will send them to Hell if they do not join the slaughter.
And ever dev**ed Muslim, extremist or not absolutly swears by the words written in it. Their long term mission is to out grow every other race and religion. Extremists just want it done in their lifetime. And they are winning because they have gained our trust. That's the bigger picture.

I hope your Santa making sure my new D810 is working perfectly.

I've moved from a D3100 to a D7100, but I fill you would not really appreciate the kind of difference I'm noticing, as I did borrow a D5100 for a couple of months first, if I was in your pestion is would buy the best lens I could afford ie a F2.8 14-24, 24-70 or a 70-300 obviously the best range to suit your needs, Cannon has the best glass and Nikon has the best body if you make the huge jump to a D810 so it don't matter what make you go for, forget all I just said and get an iPhone 6 it will shoot round corners.
Only joking.
It's all about Glass, Glass,Glass. My D7100 (24.1Mpx) has only got a 3.5-5.6 70-300 on it, it's now the worlds most expensive 9Mpx camera.
I need a glass!
SOMEONE GET ME A GLASS!!!

I'm gonna have to totally agree, as for camera and lens I coul have got the kind of picture you after with my old Nikon D3100 and Sigma 70-300 macro lens. Cheap as chips set up and I hated the lens but it will do the job fine.

Someone years ago told me that Nikon was first to do the white lens, years before Canon started making them. T/F I don't know.

I did read Nikon done it to keep their lense cooler when shooting in the sun, Canon only done it because they thought it looked cool. :thumbup:

I honestly can say.
Who really know what's what, because the news sauce looks a bit suspect you would say not.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/08/04/palestinian-authority-pays-millions-in-salaries-to-jailed-terrorists-with-help/

Hold on a minute,
goverments all over the world would lie to keep themselves in power.
Keep Your Friends Close And your Enemies Closer,
and who do you think are considered the biggest threat to any of the worlds goverments,
yes it's people they control.
Keep your eyes shut and your fingers in your ears,
We love it.

I paid £49 through Groupon to do the course, and questioned the accreditation too, as have others doing the course and this is the reply form one of the tutors.

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after a little more research i found this all to be true, and after going through the course modules i am of the opinion that if you felt the need to bypass all the free information and tutorials found on the inter net it would be money well spent.

That said i personally would rather use video trainning from sites like:

http://www.karltaylor.co.uk/
http://icesociety.com/
http://kelbyone.com/
http://ph2pro.com/ Take a look at this one you want to get into head shots.
http://froknowsphoto.com/fro-video-guide-2/ Take a look at this one if your looking to go full manual.

also use YouTube and search photography tutorial.