A portrait of my good friend Warren crafting some lightweight door handles for his Porsche in his garage. I was really surprised to find that this photo was taken in 2016. Warren has aged well since then and is still very much into making things however he has moved house so the garage has gone and so has the Porsche.
And so has the camera I used to take the photo-a Sony a7 -the original model. From the first day I acquired it disliked using it. My principal objection was the long and complex menu system. It was/is a camera for computer nerds not photographers. The data does not show the lens so it was probably taken with a legacy Minolta lens fitted to the camera with an adapter.
Certainly the quality of the photo is excellent but that did not convince me to persist with the Sony. I soon sold it-at a loss -and used the funds to buy a Leica X Vario -a camera which, on paper, was much inferior to the Sony but which has a very straightforward and usable menu system and a superb lens which I was really happy using.
To be fair many photographers love the Sony a7 cameras but also many feel the same way about the complex menus as I do. Each to their own.
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