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1.) Holiday Camera Availability and Sales
If you are thinking about giving an interchangeable lens camera as a gift this holiday season, there has been a MAJOR shakeup that is worth knowing about. Sony has stopped accepting orders for quite a few older models that composed the majority of their less expensive line. It’s not clear what’s really discontinued, and what (if anything) will come back when parts availability eases. The affected lines are the A7 II (including A7r II and A7s II), a6400 and a6100 lines. The only APS-C cameras that this leaves as current models are the expensive a6600, the vlogger-focused ZV-E10 and possibly the ancient a6000 (there’s still enough stock around that it’s unclear whether or not that camera is discontinued – but it’s approaching its eighth birthday). In full-frame, we’re left with the A7C, A7 III line (including r and s) A7 IV and A7r IV, A9 II and A1.

The ONLY current Sony under $1000 is the ZV-E10, and that’s pretty much exclusively a vlogging...

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Dan Wells, "Shuttterbug" on the trail, is a landscape photographer, long-distance hiker and student in the Master of Divinity program at Harvard Divinity School. He lives in Cambridge, MA when not in wild places photographing and contemplating our connection to the natural world. Dan's images try to capture the spirit he finds in places where, in the worlds of the Wilderness Act of 1964, "Man himself is but a visitor". He has hiked 230 miles of Vermont's Long Trail and 450 miles of the Pacific Crest Trail with his cameras, as well as photographing in numerous National Parks, Seashores and Forests over the years - often in the offseason when few people think to be there. In the summer of 2020, Dan plans to hike a stretch of hundreds of miles on the Pacific Crest Trail, focusing on his own and others' spiritual connection to these special places, and making images that document these connections. Over years of personal work and teaching photography, Dan has used a variety of equipment (presently Nikon Z7 and Fujifilm APS-C). He is looking for the perfect combination of light weight, ruggedness and superb image quality.
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