Familiar gear has an upside and a downside. One is that you know its strengths and where all the buttons and dials are. The other is that you can easily get reminded of why a past copy got ditched.

So far, so good with the current critter setup, though. The most peculiar thing so far is that the pixel-dense sensor of the R7 is nowhere near as noisy as the one in the a7r5 was. And whenever noise does crop up, Photomator’s denoising does a much better job with the Canon files than it did with the Sony ones.

The current copy of the RF 100-400mm appears to be just a smidgen sharper at longer distances than I remember the previous one being, and not quite as good as the last one when shooting near MFD. Knowing from the start how to PP in order to mitigate its biggest weakness is a big plus.

On the L-mount side, DFD AF, which I never thought was nearly as bad as the “experts” made it out to be, has already made me too lazy to shoot with my MF lenses lately. Only one MF lens made the cut for the next leg of the journey, in fact.

Hmmm . . . never thought that the idiom “divide and conquer” could be applied to photography. But it seems to be working at the moment . . .

SL2/35mm Summilux-TL (which I did not buy) . . .