Don't get me wrong, it has it's advantages, but I really think it really depends on what you're doing. I'm more or less a corporate events shooter where the light is just decent to shit and I personally do my best to not hit anything above 1250 iso. I'd never shoot 3200 cause the image just goes to hell in my opinion. But full frames handle that just fine. It's also great if you intend to print out your pics and as I said have paying clients. If you're just doing it for your own enjoyment, then you really don't need full frame unless you can afford it. FF is also great for high end portrait work. As I said just depends on what you're doing. Corporate events or wedding stuff then yes full frame. If not it really doesn't matter. Shit Koriandrr does everything with a mirrorless micro four thirds and she's just fine and quite busy and talented. Most important thing is the person taking the actual picture. What does your sister do?
It's a 50mm on full frame and an 80mm on crop sensor. You don't have to apply an additional crop to that unless you use a video recording mode that adds an additional crop. Pretty much you just have a tighter crop with the same lens on a crop sensor. It's something you just get used to. And yeah if your sister does weddings and portraits I can see why she would be using a full frame. Crop sensors usually tend to be more for wildlife shooters cause of the added crop factor.
50mm on a Crop vs 75 on a FF are going to be SOOOO close to each other that you'd have to set them side by side to tell the difference. The differences you ARE going to see are going to be the background, but they'll be really minor. In other words, consider it as no difference.
18-135? Holy cow, that's a huge range for a lens.
As for "every day lens", you'll honestly have to give us a bit more info, really. My first thought is to look for something like a 16-50 (or similar), as that should give you the most frequent focal lengths, while being more lightweight than what you have (And possibly brighter). But that's just first guess.
I really wouldn't recommend using an UWA unless you're taking some landscape stuff. You're using the 18-135 for because the beginning focal lengths are more usable for most photography uses. You could probably do well by getting the 2.8 17-55 Canon makes or you can find the 2.8 Sigma 17-50 which is nice because it has image stabilization. You think you got lens lugging problems? My current shoot set up bag is my 2.8 70-200, 2.8-17-50, 1.8 18-35 and my 1.8 50mm. Luckily that 50 is small, plus I have my flash, a strap, cleaning stuff, radio flash transmitter and random other shit in there...bag is heavy. When I travel light for street photography purposes I ditch the 70-200, use my smaller bag and just take my cleaning stuff. My camera has the battery grip on it too.
I'm always curious what people are doing that makes purchasing a Zeiss lens realistic. I'm not even trying to hate on the brand they're just fucking expensive. Ya know what...that's not even priced that badly. I've seen way way worse for a Zeiss lens. Manual only...nope, never mind.
Sometimes I feel like the CEO of broke as fuck photographer gaf.
I don't game that much either. I either spend most of my time taking pictures or editing pictures these days. The fact that I shoot a good amount of corporate events and active stuff just keeps me from wanting a manual only lens, it's just not happening. Granted I do at some point need to get better at manual focus though, but I just can't tell looking through the viewfinder at times.
I will admit to missing an EVF, but I've gotten so used to not really having one these days. A mirrorless would probably just be my spare camera, because I do not want to lug my dslr all over the damn place unless I need to these days.
I guess that's right. I just ordered a second battery for my camera... $177!
I know Fuji does this hybrid OV/EVF, but that's a bunch of money for a secondary camera. :x
Uh, well.
If I could find a used A6000 for the right price that would take over as my street photography camera. My secondary event photography body would be a D750.
