Don’t throw money at the ‘best’ lenses. Think about getting the RIGHT ones instead

Sony A7R IV
That's me holding a Sony A7R IV and a 16-35mm G Master in the picture. Bizarrely, this convinced me to spend less. (Image credit: Rod Lawton/Digital Camera World)

I have a Sony A7R II. It’s pretty old tech now, but 42MP is still high-end  resolution and I got it cheap when it was near the end of its on-sale life. It offers exceptional image quality and I didn’t pay for a whole lot of features I didn’t need like uncropped 4K video and high burst rates. I’ve got other cameras that can do that.

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Rod Lawton
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Rod is an independent photography journalist and editor, and a long-standing Digital Camera World contributor, having previously worked as DCW's Group Reviews editor. Before that he has been technique editor on N-Photo, Head of Testing for the photography division and Camera Channel editor on TechRadar, as well as contributing to many other publications. He has been writing about photography technique, photo editing and digital cameras since they first appeared, and before that began his career writing about film photography. He has used and reviewed practically every interchangeable lens camera launched in the past 20 years, from entry-level DSLRs to medium format cameras, together with lenses, tripods, gimbals, light meters, camera bags and more. Rod has his own camera gear blog at fotovolo.com but also writes about photo-editing applications and techniques at lifeafterphotoshop.com