Mirrorless Pics: Squirrels with the Sony a7 II

The Sony ecosystem was my first whack at using full-frame mirrorless for work stuff. I'd used an NEX-5T and an NEX-7 (in Hasselblad Lunar drag) for most of a year and decided to take the full-frame plunge. I dabbled with an a7 for a month and then went all-in on an a7 II.

That experiment lasted about a year before frustration with the tiny NP-FW50 batteries drove me back to Canon DSLRs for work. Even with a battery grip on both the a7 II and the backup a7, I'd have to walk around TacCon or SHOT Show with a pocketful of spare batteries if I wanted to do a whole day's worth of shooting.

DSLR Pics: Doggos with the Canon EOS 7D

The Canon EOS 7D was a big hit and stayed in production for what felt like an eternity at the height of the DSLR wars, staying in the catalog for half a decade before getting replaced by the 7D Mark II.

It's still a capable camera to this day, eleven years after it was discontinued.

DSLR Pics: Cars with the Nikon D2H

In the early days of DSLRs, manufacturers faced a dilemma with their pro bodies. Fairly high-resolution sensors were available early on... they had crossed the 5MP threshold at the dawn of the new millennium ...but that level of resolution created an image processing bottleneck that hampered sports and wildlife photographers who tend to shoot bursts at a high frame rate in hopes of capturing the money shot.

So both Canon and Nikon had dual tracks of pro bodies in the early '00s, one that emphasized maximum resolution and the other which accepted lower resolution in exchange for a higher frame rate and bigger image buffer.

For 2003, Nikon released their second generation of high speed sports-oriented pro body, the 4MP D2H, which was capable of shooting at eight frames a second until the buffer was filled. It was joined the following year by the 12MP D2X which only managed five frames per second at full resolution.

This D2H got snagged from Roberts Camera in Indianapolis for just a c-note, along with the battery, charger, a memory card, and a 50mm f/1.8 AF lens.

The pics below were snapped with the excellent Nikon 17-55mm f/2.8 DX zoom lens.