which we'll talk about in a second for tamron with primarily with their zooms and even for sigma that really has huge amount of momentum right now and is developing a ton of lenses on the sony full-frame mirrorless e-mount space and so as you can see it's kind of embarrassing when i get it all out in front of me i have a lot of cameras and lenses in my sony kit i first want to thank however our sponsor of today's episode one of our very faithful partners here and that is phantom wallet today's episode is brought to you by phantom wallet the minimalist modern wallet that sets you free from a bulky traditional wallet while also making it easy to access your cards and money when you need them thanks to their unique fanning mechanism visit URL_TOKEN to check out their unique sizes styles and finishes that span from aluminum to wood to carbon fiber you can even customize your wallet with new accessories like a money clip cache holder id display and even the chipolo tracking integration if you're the kind of person who loses their wallet use code dustin NUMBER_TOKEN for NUMBER_TOKEN off when you're ready to check out so let's start by talking about the camera bodies that i use and so at the heart of my sony kit is the sony alpha one now my first reaction to the alpha one it was that it was overpriced but as i began to look at the potential that was there that basically it was the possibility of having all that i like best about sony in one body i finally it finally kind of you know won me over and so i sold both my sony alpha NUMBER_TOKEN along with my aNUMBER_TOKENr mark iii and i invested in the alpha one and i haven't regretted it i love this camera it just does everything so very well it has next to no flaws other than its price and so i really really do love it and of course as a gear reviewer i like to be able to uh you know as i put things through the paces to basically test them to the fullness of their potential and that requires sometimes using the best camera body available for it and so i really do love the alpha one even though i recognize that it's more camera than what a lot of people actually need and so you need to buy according to your own needs and there are a lot of great sony cameras at this point the alpha one is the one that hits the sweet spot for me i also have a pair of aps-c bodies including the aNUMBER_TOKEN and as shown here the aNUMBER_TOKEN at this stage i am primarily letting my new assistant whom i'm going to introduce to you in a couple of days i'm letting him use the aNUMBER_TOKEN and a few lenses including like the viltrx NUMBER_TOKEN millimeter f NUMBER_TOKEN and some other things and reviewing things as they come out for aps-c i have a couple of lenses that i reach for uh primarily if i'm not using one of the full frame lenses and frankly a lot of times i'm using full frame lenses on them but i do have the samyang af NUMBER_TOKEN millimeter fNUMBER_TOKEN it's a a great priced you know premium type lens with good weather
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