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I think at the price you bought it for youd be silly not to buy it. £420 for an a7 is a massive bargain.
Deffo. It was cheaper than a speed booster for the Fooj!!
I think at the price you bought it for youd be silly not to buy it. £420 for an a7 is a massive bargain.
I don't have an A6300 (I'm tempted though) but do have a Panny GX7 which is an RF style camera but with a compact prime fitted to my A7 and GX7 I don't think there's an awfully significant difference in bulk between the two. Zooms are another matter but an A7 with a compact prime is a pretty compact set up and makes me wonder what the true advantages of a small RF camera are... but zooms are another matter.
you have to choose the right lenses to be compact, alot of the fe line just isnt actually compact.
This is quite interesting - new lens from Samyang announcement:
http://www.sonyalpharumors.com/new-samyang-20mm-f1-8-full-frame-lens-sony-sony-e-mount/
20mm manual f1.8. I've mentioned before I'd like a lens for astro, at f1.8 this could be a good solution?
28, 35 or even 50/55mm are pretty compact and really it's only when you go up in aperture, quality or focal length that the lenses get bigger and that's to be expected. For someone like me who mostly uses the 28 to 55mm range the A7 is a very compact system and not significantly bigger than my MFT G7 (a SLR style MFT camera) and an equivalent length lens and significantly more compact than something like a 5D an a similar prime.you have to choose the right lenses to be compact, alot of the fe line just isnt actually compact.
This might change things, although unlikely to be in my lifetimeVery true, you can't defy physics, FF usually means FF size glass.
I like my old lenses but I do realise that they'll never compete with the technical excellence of a modern lens if you go looking for the shortcomings and I just find it amazing that someone is surprised that an old mass market film era lens doesn't stand up to comparison with a modern lens.
Really love the processing of those image
A9 may get announced in photokina. Anyone interested? Or are some of you canon glass shooters going to buy the 5d4?
Like these Lee, fancy sharing your PP process?
I'd be interested to know how this result is achieved as well.
Really love the processing of those image
Me too, it suits the retro vibe of the MK1 Escort so well.
Great processing and composition
Like these Lee, fancy sharing your PP process?
I'd be interested to know how this result is achieved as well.
I've seen some good results on the A7 / A7 mkii bodies so what would be your recommendations for the crop system please? I've seen an Olympus F Zuiko 50mm f1.8 which would be 80mm equivalent and am quite interested in that but are there better options?
I'm also looking for a fast wide angle lens for night landscape photography and maybe Astro at some stage.
Any advice would be appreciated.
I have put this in this group as I will mostly be posting in it. How do you insert pictures as links, deadly from flicker?
Thumbs up for the FE 35mm f2.8, it's very light and small
Right folks, just a heads up for those who have asked me, I will be putting up the following for sale in a week or two.
Sony A7RII with extended Sony warranty, and 2x 32GB SD cards.
Sony A7II /RII /SII Battery Grip
Zeiss Batis 25mm f2.0
Zeiss Batis 85mm f1.8
Nissin i40 flash
Cheers,
Riz
Will you be keeping the 35mm f2.8?
I thought you'd like the 35mm I've taken some of my favourite pictures with that lens and as I've said many times my only wish is that it was f1.8
My A7+35mm f2.8 fits in the same small Lowepro bag my Panasonic GX7+17mm f1.8 fits in.
Guys the GAS nearly got to me yesterday. i had a 1dx2 reserved in the shop and walked in yesterday about to buy it but then sense kicked in as well as looking at the existing 1dx size and i flopped and walked out empty handed!
Back on topic i have a question in regards to the A7r2.
When i shoot over F8, the PDAF doesnt kick in and instead the CDAF does and makes auto focusing above f8 very very slow!
I heard that disabling Live view effects will enable PDAF to work above f8 as the camera will act like a DSLR by stopping down to its brightest apature to enquire focus but in my case it doesnt. It still executes the CDAF insead of PDAF?
i have the latest 3.20 Firmware version
Both of the macro shots are out of focus/missed focus but it's never an easy method! Were you hand-holding these or using a tripod? Also, I'd recommend using manual focus over Autofocus for anything close up as it's pretty likely to focus on the 'wrong' point (as per the last shot that's focused on the main flower rather than the stamen.
I thought you'd like the 35mm I've taken some of my favourite pictures with that lens and as I've said many times my only wish is that it was f1.8
When I first got mine I tested it against my legacy 50mm's and tried to keep in mind the results I got from my Sigma 50mm f1.4 snd Canon 50mm f2.5, the Sony really impressed me with very surprising sharpness across the frame even at wide apertures.Well im blown away by this lens...