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Hi Oliver That is some good points! I can see the appeal of both options to different people. I think at this point after really paying attention to both the Nikon and Sony... I just cant at all get it where I want it... No matter what setting. I can use the screen.. See what I want and its perfect. Then take the photo and the camera literally loses its mind. Its fcus is in and out as it tries to figure it out and 95% of the time it doesnt take the image on what was on the view screen - its completely blurry. So then I have to back up or get closer and try to retake and its not the image I want and then if I crop it down via software - no matter how much manipulation I lose so much of it. After so many years of this I can only hope that going back to a manual focus will be best. And again it could be that what I am trying to do the two cameras I have dont have the capability to do it or I cant figure out the camera settings. I took the Sony and took photos... Changing each setting after each shot to try to get it but no joy. And breaking out your Bronica sounds like a great and fun plan!

Good Morning Bill Thank you! Its taken this conversation and another with someone who is an acquaintance for me to figure two major things out about photography and the issues I'm having 1. I am an instinct and intuitive person and photographer and just want to enjoy. Take amazing shots is a definate yes, but continue to enjoy it 2. The reason I am having a dickens of a time with cameras I have and getting the shots I want (and what drovevme to ask the questions in this thread) is that I MISS the old manual focusing. I loved that! I could get the image I wanted and had to work at it and it was fun! The cameras that I have all do the focus themselves. Yes I can push/pull the little button but it focuses itself -- which I don't like at all So he suggested that I get the Canon Rebel T5 body and a Sigma 18-300 mm f3.5 -6.3 dc macro os lense for the camera since I do love the manual focus and it will give me the ability of 3 lenses in one - macro, close and farther away... So Im going to research this. I completely missed the point that its the manually moving and focusing the lense tgat I enjoy and that I am not crazy about the camera focusing for me. Yes thats great in a lot of circumstances but, not for me.

<p>Craig - thank you for that information! <br> I will have to revisit - I just remember in the past (again over 20 years ago) how easy it was to change the lens and fast too! Most of them were completely interchangeable. </p> <p>I'm still learning the Nikon and the Sony I have - still trying to figure out how the Sony is so much better than the Nikon - regardless of what I do to it and putting them on the same settings and they are practically the same camera and I am just amazed that even the cheap Samsung I have is so far showing that it's out performing the Nikon (and not even close to being in the same "class") but, I'm not able to figure it out yet. </p> <p>Thank you for the help here and the information is great! I really thought I would want a Nikon but, I've always heard that Canon is the best - and the majority of the macro images I see are taken on a Rebel and those have been the ones that I like best photo wise so far. But, again that is a bit in the future. <br> I haven't figured out half of what yall say when you talk about the cameras. None of it makes sense your F mount, the mirrors, the AF and metering. It's just garbled.. and I keep researching it. <br> I've always been more of an instinct and intuitive photographer (and with most things) seeing - does the image look great? Does it show what I want to capture? Does it focus correctly? Is the lighting right? <br> Just basic stuff - and maybe that will keep me from ever getting close to some of the photos I enjoy looking at - but, as much as I try to read the camera language yall talk about, it just makes no sense at all. I'm not stupid, a computer engineer and took radiology for fun - however, this talk is like a foreign language lol <br> I'll keep plugging away at it, but then I may just keep doing what I'm doing so I still can enjoy taking the photos and not have to work at it so much. </p> <p>Thank you again! </p>

<p>Thank you so much everyone! I mainly am just looking at this point - but, was mostly curious. I haven't used a body with different lense in over 25 years - and either back then the lenses mainly were able to be interchangeable or I just happened to luck out. <br> So mainly it's curiosity at this point and getting and idea for the future. <br> A friend let me use their body with two lenses - all the same brand - but, in all honestly all it did was piss me off the entire time I used it. The lenses didn't go on or come off easily, it took forever to make changes and neither lens would focus on what I wanted - either manually or automatically. She had bought a kit - and to me it was a total waste of time, or the lenses that came with the camera just weren't good ones for what I wanted to shoot. I don't know. <br> So now I'm very leery of buying a body and lenses completely - but, the Nikon and the Sony I have now (one unit) don't fully do what I want either. But, I don't have the hassle of removing and changing lenses.<br> That being said - I am focusing on learning everything I can about the two cameras I have now (and trying to find out why the Sony seems to be so much better than the Nikon at this point ((which totally floors me)). But, I was curious and wanted to know. </p> <p>Sorry if anyone was put out by my "inexperience for asking such a question - but, I truly thought the BEGINNERS forum was for just that - us beginners that are trying to learn. </p>

Good day! I thought I would ask here since I can't seem to really find an answer on the net and when I ask sellers on amazon I still can't get a straight answer. So since there are so many camera bodies and so many lenses... Do you have to but only Nikon lense for a Nikon body? Can you mix and match? I know it may not be ideal - however for just starting out and being on a budget if I find a body but the type of lense I want to learn is way out of my price range but I find the same type by a different company - can I combine them? Thank you!