The Amazing Sony A1/A7/A9/APS-C & Anything else welcome Mega Thread!

:banana: Happy Days :banana:

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Parcelforce delivered the camera 30 minutes ago. UPS arrived at 9 am just as I was doing the school run, luckily they dropped the lens at one of their Access Points near my house a few minutes ago and so I :exit: went to pick it up.
More arriving tomorrow :D

I need to get an extra SD card and a screen protector any recommendations, please?
 
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PauBass said:
:banana: Happy Days :banana:

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Parcelforce delivered the camera 30 minutes ago. UPS arrived at 9 am just as I was doing the school run, luckily they dropped the lens at one of their Access Points near my house a few minutes ago and so I :exit: went to pick it up.
More arriving tomorrow :D

I need to get an extra SD card and a screen protector any recommendations, please?
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I posted a screen protector a couple pages ago I think.
 
dancook said:
From holding my eye up to the EVF I can hear the AF noises, but I can't hear aperture blades when I use the manual aperture ring above the ribbed clicking of the ring itself. If I put my ear closer to the lens I can here a little metallic noise
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View: https://youtu.be/NwJlnUp06OQ


It's a little noisier than the video, the focusing noise while not quiet wouldn't really bother me but I can't recall having noisy aperture blades before.

Seems less than ideal for such an expensive lens.
 
Riz_Guru said:
Nice :D
I am sure the Sony A9 isnt too far behind in real-world situations.
Surely the one of the advantages of the EVF - WYSIWYG is that you don't over/under expose too much.
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Doesn't matter, extra DR is always welcome. I use as much as I can get, imagine a dark room with blinds open or a window, you can expose for shadow or highlight then push either way in post to recover. Or outside on a sunny day in the shade, you can expose for sky and push the shadows in post. You can paint in the light in shadows. Boosts creative options.
 
twist said:
Doesn't matter, extra DR is always welcome. I use as much as I can get, imagine a dark room with blinds open or a window, you can expose for shadow or highlight then push either way in post to recover. Or outside on a sunny day in the shade, you can expose for sky and push the shadows in post. You can paint in the light in shadows. Boosts creative options.
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I agree...... even if you don't need it, its good to have on the days you do! :D
More is better than less :)
 
ohms12 said:
As for DSR - as you’re not in face to face contact with the retailer, and as such unable to check/demo/inspect the item you’re purchasing, you have a right of return once you’ve inspected said items. Don’t see what the issue is, there. :)
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Well if possible its better to try out and then buy when you are kinda sure you want something. The issue with simply buying stuff and returning it is that it does not come for free. It adds cost to the dealer which is then later pushed back on to us in form of increased prices. So best not to abuse a certain system just because it exists.
Places like amazon will simply suspend your account if you return too many things :D
 
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simonbarker said:
Understandable, I was hoping for more changes than just the ones listed so figured it was worth the gamble (plus I'd rather it broke now than a year from now).

Question for you though, on your FE 50mm f/1.4, how noisy is it? I've got one here, the focus motor is fairly quiet but the aperture blades are a bit noisy. Which seems not quite right...
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It’s not louder than any of my Canon or Fuji lenses.
 
twist said:
I posted a screen protector a couple pages ago I think.
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Ups, I might have missed that post with all the talking on cars, watches, speakers.... :)

Faldrax said:
I hope they didn't literally DROP the lens...
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jonneymendoza said:
Its a GM lens. You can drop it from the Shard and it would make a dent on the road
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I'm pretty sure about that Jonney, it really is a beats of a lens, but coming from a Nikon, not much different :p
 
F/1.4 said:
so apparently the striping can be dependent on lens used. Maybe a good thing then I changed to the Batis 85 lol
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certainly makes for a good reason, but so far I haven't noticed it with FE85. If and when do I might consider the same.
 
nandbytes said:
anyone wanting to fix stripes on their A7III - https://www.dpreview.com/news/6974141509/sony-striping-heres-the-fix

though I am sure you'd prefer to own bodies without such issues :D
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Interesting.. wonder if this can be fixed in firmware, or maybe incorporated into the RAW conversion, especially if its not just Sony related. I guess the issue as mentioned is that there are more AF points on the Sony sensor, which I guess will become the norm for most mirrorless cameras in the future.
 
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springtide said:
Interesting.. wonder if this can be fixed in firmware, or maybe incorporated into the RAW conversion, especially if its not just Sony related. I guess the issue as mentioned is that there are more AF points on the Sony sensor, which I guess will become the norm for most mirrorless cameras in the future.
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I wouldn't say the norm because I don't think this is an issue with canon's dual pixel AF
 
nandbytes said:
I wouldn't say the norm because I don't think this is an issue with canon's dual pixel AF
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It's known as 'PDAF striping' and it's not limited to a single camera, or even a single brand. PDAF striping is one of those annoying issues which only shows up sometimes, and which depending on the kind of photography you practice, you might never see. But if you do see it, it's pretty unpleasant, and very distracting. Particularly if you print large, or pixel peep.
 
springtide said:
It's known as 'PDAF striping' and it's not limited to a single camera, or even a single brand. PDAF striping is one of those annoying issues which only shows up sometimes, and which depending on the kind of photography you practice, you might never see. But if you do see it, it's pretty unpleasant, and very distracting. Particularly if you print large, or pixel peep.
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Canons ospdaf is different and it doesn't effect it but it has it's own issues.
 
springtide said:
It's known as 'PDAF striping' and it's not limited to a single camera, or even a single brand. PDAF striping is one of those annoying issues which only shows up sometimes, and which depending on the kind of photography you practice, you might never see. But if you do see it, it's pretty unpleasant, and very distracting. Particularly if you print large, or pixel peep.
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As twist said canon's dual pixel AF is different. They don't have PDAF points like Sony/Fuji/oly do (or any brand that uses hybrid AF)
 
twist said:
Hybrid is faster and more accurate. DP has less DR.
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Not sure if that's because the concept inherently has problems or if canon made a half-arsed attempt at it. Wouldn't be surprised if it's the latter.

Sony also patented a dual pixel AF design not long ago. I think the next A7SIII will have it. It's better than hybrid PDAF for videos where you need the smoothness instead of speed.
 
nandbytes said:
Well... You can say it's the norm with cameras using hybrid PDAF. Even so as dpreview said it's not seen or have been reproduced in all bodies with hybrid PDAF...
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If you think about what you are seeing and how the AF sensors are implemented, it's going to be more of an issue when there are a large number of AF sensors.
I don't thing *currently* many other brands have as many sensors as the current Sony's.

Maybe other makes have seen this issue, but have already implemented a fix in firmware.. I guess we will never know, but more importantly, there is already a fix, albeit in post processing.
 
nandbytes said:
Not sure if that's because the concept inherently has problems or if canon made a half-arsed attempt at it. Wouldn't be surprised if it's the latter.

Sony also patented a dual pixel AF design not long ago. I think the next A7SIII will have it. It's better than hybrid PDAF for videos where you need the smoothness instead of speed.
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It's concept issue cos the pixels are shared so less DR. This probably also effects iso.

Be interesting to see if they use it.
 
springtide said:
If you think about what you are seeing and how the AF sensors are implemented, it's going to be more of an issue when there are a large number of AF sensors.
I don't thing *currently* many other brands have as many sensors as the current Sony's.

Maybe other makes have seen this issue, but have already implemented a fix in firmware.. I guess we will never know, but more importantly, there is already a fix, albeit in post processing.
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Sony, c1 and adobe should fix it.
 
springtide said:
If you think about what you are seeing and how the AF sensors are implemented, it's going to be more of an issue when there are a large number of AF sensors.
I don't thing *currently* many other brands have as many sensors as the current Sony's.

Maybe other makes have seen this issue, but have already implemented a fix in firmware.. I guess we will never know, but more importantly, there is already a fix, albeit in post processing.
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That is a good point you make. This is because other brands such as Fuji license one sensor from Sony and they reuse it. Sony on the other hand have more options...
 
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