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<p>Thank you, Bob, this is incredibly helpful.</p>

<p>Hi all, happy New Year and merry Christmas (belatedly)<br /><br />I have a question.<br />So I have a Sony a7 (the original version). I also have a LAE-A4 adapter to use A lenses on this E body.<br> My usual fodder is landscapes and a bit of urban photography. <br> However, I will be spending a few days in the environment where I'm likely to need to use a very long lens (we're talking Tamron 150-600 and similar). I'm going on safari!<br> The a7 has no built-in "steadyshot". So it'll be very difficult to handhold anything and get decent results.<br />I was thinking of hiring a camera/lens combo in Delhi - but it's going to work out at £120 for six days. So I thought it might be a better idea to buy something on eBay and then sell upon my return. Hopefully I won't lose quite as much money.<br />So the options, as best as I can tell, are:<br />1) Hire from a firm in my destination country (Canon 6d/100-400 L) - £120 over six days, what happens if I drop it? <br />2) Buy an a77 + a Tamron 150-600 on eBay, hoping to resell upon my return - shouldn't lose as much as I would pay for a hire, can put on my insurance, but there is the risk of not being able to sell them, plus I'd need to carry two cameras.<br />3) Buy something like a Tokina 80-400 II, try and use it on the a7 with bean bags, monopods etc. to attempt to get decent pix without shaking. - I've used Tokinas before, I think they're great, but 400 mm on an a7 body without stabilisation? Hmmm....<br />What would you do if you were me?</p> <p><a name="pagebottom"></a></p>

<p>Hi all, happy New Year and merry Christmas (belatedly)<br /><br />I have a question.<br> So I have a Sony a7 (the original version). I also have a LAE-A4 adapter to use A lenses on this E body.<br> I will be spending a few days in the environment where I'm likely to need to use a very long lens (we're talking Tamron 150-600 and similar). I'm going on safari!</p> <p>The a7 has no built-in "steadyshot". So it'll be very difficult to handhold anything and get decent results.<br> I was thinking of hiring a camera/lens combo in Delhi - but it's going to work out at £120 for six days. So I thought it might be a better idea to buy something on eBay and then sell upon my return. Hopefully I won't lose quite as much money.<br> So the options, as best as I can tell, are:<br> 1) Hire from a firm in my destination country (Canon 6d/100-400 L) - £120 over six days, what happens if I drop it? <br />2) Buy an a77 + a Tamron 150-600 on eBay, hoping to resell upon my return - shouldn't lose as much as I would pay for a hire, can put on my insurance, but there is the risk of not being able to sell them, plus I'd need to carry two cameras.<br />3) Buy something like a Tokina 80-400 II, try and use it on the a7 with bean bags, monopods etc. to attempt to get decent pix without shaking. - I've used Tokinas before, I think they're great, but 400 mm on an a7 body without stabilisation? Hmmm....<br> What would you do if you were me?</p>

<p>Thanks guys, you've put my mind at rest.</p>

<p>Guys and girls, I have a question. <br />I was at a motorcycling event, attending out of personal interest, but I also volunteered for the "photography crew". <br />There, I saw a journalist (of the sort who use a GoPro to do a TV interview) talking to one of the participants. They were positioned really nicely, and the light was superb, so I took a picture of them. <br />I then sent the photograph to the journalist. Next thing I knew it was on his Twitter promoting the full interview "soon available on the website". No credit, no mention of me, no mention of the event even. The website is, clearly, a business, plastered with ads.<br />I wrote him an e-mail saying it would have been nice of him to have asked before using the picture commercially. I also said in the e-mail, very clearly, that I did not mind him using the picture, but for the future he should be aware that some other photographers could be less understanding. <br />He sent me a really unpleasant reply which I even hesitate to quote here. I now feel like an absolute bastard who created a big deal out of nothing. What do you think?</p>