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

twist said:
So you're happy?
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Happy enough to take the gamble! If it doesnt work out, can easily go back!

Wanted to check all the files properly and compare the shots (especially the indoor ones) to the D750 and came up with the following:

Positives of the A7iii I have come away with from first outing:

These are my initial findings using mainly flexible spot, 1/500, f2.8, 8fps

Handles the changing lighting and back lighting better
Seems to be able to handle a mixture of tones better, mainly faces. The D750 had a habit of making faces quite pale whilst getting the horse spot on
Silent shooting at 8fps for horses speed works with no isses
EVF although not zero blackout does effect tracking at 8fps
Picks up more details in lower light
 
Two of my D750's went today as well, still such a great camera absolute bargain for the money they can be bought for now.
 
f/2.8 said:
Two of my D750's went today as well, still such a great camera absolute bargain for the money they can be bought for now.
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Yep - MPB have offered £840 for the other one. Its only dont a few hundred shots but still probably will not get more than that on here!!
 
JJ! said:
Yep - MPB have offered £840 for the other one. Its only dont a few hundred shots but still probably will not get more than that on here!!
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I sold one of mine with 50k shutter count for £900 this morning on Facebook marketplace. The other one was sold on here for £800. Very difficult to sell anything at a reasonable price on here any more.
 
SsSsSsSsSnake said:
They look better than a lot I’ve seen colour wise to me.how did you approach the processing?
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For my taste, I found almost all the sliders needs to be pushed that little bit more than I used to, with the exception of the saturation.

The other way I sometimes edit the photos for personal stuff is try the popular "flat" profile that is all the rage these days.

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Raymond Lin said:
Hopefully....24/1.4 and for lots of people a 300/2.8

And a regular G 35/1.8 would be nice.
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I am hoping for the following to really turn up the heat on rivals...

35mm f1.8
35mm f1.2 GM
50mm f1.2 GM
135mm f1.8 GM
105mm f2.8 GM Macro
300mm f2.8 GM
500mm f2.8 GM

:D
 
f/2.8 said:
The 35mm Sigma Art native lens for Sony is honestly pretty outstanding for the money.
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Im looking at something at the other end of the £ scale! I cant afford anything else now I bought the 70-200!!
 
JJ! said:
Im looking at something at the other end of the £ scale! I cant afford anything else now I bought the 70-200!!
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Sony really need to release a FE 35mm f1.8 to plug the gap.
 
JJ! said:
Im looking at something at the other end of the £ scale! I cant afford anything else now I bought the 70-200!!
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I feel your pain I have spent 5.5k on gear in the last couple of weeks and not done yet.
 
Raymond Lin said:
I am sooooooooo glad I do not shoot at these focal lengths, they make the rest of my lenses look cheap.
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Same here.... as much as would love a big telephoto lenses, I rarely use them. :)

My 35mm f2.8 and 55mm f1.8 are for light travelling duties.....
a GM version of a 50mm, 135mm and a Macro would complete my setup.
 
Riz_Guru said:
Same here.... as much as would love a big telephoto lenses, I rarely use them. :)

My 35mm f2.8 and 55mm f1.8 are for light travelling duties.....
a GM version of a 50mm, 135mm and a Macro would complete my setup.
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Still a bit of space left in the famous cabinet then.
 
Riz_Guru said:
Same here.... as much as would love a big telephoto lenses, I rarely use them. :)

My 35mm f2.8 and 55mm f1.8 are for light travelling duties.....
a GM version of a 50mm, 135mm and a Macro would complete my setup.
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Doing only motorsport photography im stuffed with two lenses the price of a small car,have a 300 and 500 at the moment but thinking of adding the A9 and the 400 f2.8 if i make the switch fully.
 
jonneymendoza said:
The price of the 400mm equals to about just booking a whole Ryanair flight on my own
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The only good thing about the larger items of glass is you normally dont loose much on them over time and infact with Brexit my two big primes have actually increased in value.
 
F/1.4 said:
It changes all manner of settings on me lol. Bracketed WB, timers and all sorts
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Have just realised you can change the buttons to not set and this seems to resolve the problem so far anyway :D

Makes it slightly more hassle to change settings but I can live with that.
 
Riz_Guru said:
Same here.... as much as would love a big telephoto lenses, I rarely use them. :)

My 35mm f2.8 and 55mm f1.8 are for light travelling duties.....
a GM version of a 50mm, 135mm and a Macro would complete my setup.
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70-200 is my most used lens so had to get that first. The 28-70 was with the camera anyway but would prefer to sell that on and get a small 35mm as my go light travel lens!
 
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