In 2015, I embarked on a month-long backpacking trip to Asia, which sparked my purchase of a Sony a6300. I haven’t bought a full-frame camera since then. While that Canon has hardly been utilized for video, it has built my entire professional photography portfolio in the past 6 years. In 2012, I traded in my Nikon gear for the Canon 5D Mark III and 6D, intending to dive into the video and filmmaking world. I played in the Nikon world for several years, eventually ending up with a Nikon D700, and host of accompanying Nikkor lenses. My first digital camera (I never shot film) was a Nikon D40. I’ll start off by admitting that I’ve never been much of a camera brand loyalist, to begin with. In this article, I’ll shed some light on why I’m straddling the Canon-Sony lines, and how my experience with Sony has been so far. That all changed when I took the plunge and ordered a Sony A7RIII.Īfter having it for about a month, I’ve fallen head over heels in love with this camera and use it almost as much as my Canon DSLRs. I never thought I’d join the crew switching from Canon to Sony, telling myself that it’s not the bells and whistles of brand new cameras that define a photographer’s abilities. Throughout the internet, there are quite a few photographers trading in their DSLRs for shiny new mirrorless cameras.