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

Processed this in a style similar to a lot of old family photos from when I was a kid. Not sure what the film was :thinking:


A1209444 by Toby Gunnee, on Flickr
 
snerkler said:
No idea, I'll have to dig out the photos and see if I can find the negatives, I assume it will say on there?
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Yes, it should be on the side of the sprocket holes.
 
jimmyjamjojo said:
Bold Move from Nikon. Odd styling too... Looks like something from late 90's/early 00's.

TBH I don't really use a VF anymore - I was spoiled by Fuji and the one on my A7Cii is awful by comparison. I only use it if it's too bright to see the rear screen, which is rare.

I can't imagine the space saving would be significant, but if it saved on price and battery life, I'd gladly take a body with no VF.
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No VF and it's got a pretty poor screen though. You'd think it would be a decent screen.
 
Off topic but recently I've been inundated with requests to add photos to groups of Flickr, I've tended to ignore them in the past but with so many requests lately I've been wondering if I'm missing out on something, do others bother with this or just ignore them? I wondered if it would be good exposure, but then I tend to think more that it's just people promoting their own groups on Flickr for whatever reason.
 
snerkler said:
Off topic but recently I've been inundated with requests to add photos to groups of Flickr, I've tended to ignore them in the past but with so many requests lately I've been wondering if I'm missing out on something, do others bother with this or just ignore them? I wondered if it would be good exposure, but then I tend to think more that it's just people promoting their own groups on Flickr for whatever reason.
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Yeah I ignore them too. Look at the comments under any explored photo and it's just invite after invite to whatever group, just a standard copy paste thing like they haven't even looked at the image.

I've always ignored them, but then for me flickr is literally just a place to host and link via bbcode. I'm not interested in the social aspect of it at all.
 
jimmyjamjojo said:
Yeah I ignore them too. Look at the comments under any explored photo and it's just invite after invite to whatever group, just a standard copy paste thing like they haven't even looked at the image.

I've always ignored them, but then for me flickr is literally just a place to host and link via bbcode. I'm not interested in the social aspect of it at all.
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Yeah it was always just a place to link the bbcode for me too, but over the past year or so I’ve also been using it as a cloud backup of all of my photos so I have full res versions of my photos that aren’t open to the public.
 
snerkler said:
Click on the eraser tool in the devlop module, go down to the bottom and you'll see distractions and underneath is reflections. Open it up and click apply, make sure best is selected. It's been rubbish for removing reflections for me, and it's painfully slow, but it removed distracting catch fencing for me, well made it much better anyway.
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Thanks for the info, I’ll give it a go later on and see what results I can get.
 
Literally the first shot with my new lens, which arrived 30 minutes ago. It's the Viltrox 14mm f4, shot at f5.6. Although the transition through Flickr and this forum doesn't do it justice, I'm impressed with the sharpness. This is almost straight out of camera, with just an Adobe profile applied. I recognise that it's a bit too wide for normal landscapes but it was bought primarily for interiors.

Ribble Terrace by Stephen Lee, on Flickr
 
snerkler said:
Yeah it was always just a place to link the bbcode for me too, but over the past year or so I’ve also been using it as a cloud backup of all of my photos so I have full res versions of my photos that aren’t open to the public.
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I've only recently started using it for storage. I run a slideshow on my TV via a raspberry pi (using dakboard if anyone wants to do the same), and a while back flickr changed the API that meant you could only pull lower res images like that unless you had a pro account.
Since I was nearing the free limit anyway, I went pro, so figured I might as well make use of the storage.

Incidentally, that slideshow is one of the best things I've done with regards to photography. I highly recommend it, especially if you have a good TV. Seeing your images on a 65" 4k OLED is amazing, it's like being able to have hundreds of large prints. Honestly I didn't expect them to scale up to that size so well but they look incredible.
Whenever we have guests or are just sitting and chatting etc, it's a great conversation starter, or it's just nice to watch and relive the memories.
 
Stephen L said:
Literally the first shot with my new lens, which arrived 30 minutes ago. It's the Viltrox 14mm f4, shot at f5.6. Although the transition through Flickr and this forum doesn't do it justice, I'm impressed with the sharpness. This is almost straight out of camera, with just an Adobe profile applied. I recognise that it's a bit too wide for normal landscapes but it was bought primarily for interiors.

Ribble Terrace by Stephen Lee, on Flickr
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That's the final lens on my wish/gas list. Look forward to seeing more pics with it.
 
Stephen L said:
Literally the first shot with my new lens, which arrived 30 minutes ago. It's the Viltrox 14mm f4, shot at f5.6. Although the transition through Flickr and this forum doesn't do it justice, I'm impressed with the sharpness. This is almost straight out of camera, with just an Adobe profile applied. I recognise that it's a bit too wide for normal landscapes but it was bought primarily for interiors.

Ribble Terrace by Stephen Lee, on Flickr
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This lens is on my radar to partner my 20-70mm for travel so I'm interested to hear how you get on with it. I'm still undecided whether to take a 16-35mm and longer prime, something like the Sammy 75mm f1.8, or whether to take the 20-70mm and 14mm. Having just taken the 16-35mm to Caernarfon there are times 16mm cam in useful,
 
Stephen L said:
Literally the first shot with my new lens, which arrived 30 minutes ago. It's the Viltrox 14mm f4, shot at f5.6. Although the transition through Flickr and this forum doesn't do it justice, I'm impressed with the sharpness. This is almost straight out of camera, with just an Adobe profile applied. I recognise that it's a bit too wide for normal landscapes but it was bought primarily for interiors.

Ribble Terrace by Stephen Lee, on Flickr
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Picked one up myself. Only used it for closeup of motorcycles so far. Quite impressed with it. Great value too.
 
snerkler said:
This lens is on my radar to partner my 20-70mm for travel so I'm interested to hear how you get on with it. I'm still undecided whether to take a 16-35mm and longer prime, something like the Sammy 75mm f1.8, or whether to take the 20-70mm and 14mm. Having just taken the 16-35mm to Caernarfon there are times 16mm cam in useful,
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My dilemma is similar for York in November. Probably be the 20-70 for walk-around, the 14 for interiors, and maybe the 26 Viltrox for dark evening streets as it’s a stop wider. I would have/might take the Viltrox 55mm as it’s f1.8 but its a bit bulky and heavy. Don’t know why I bought it, TBH, though it is very sharp.
 
Stephen L said:
Literally the first shot with my new lens, which arrived 30 minutes ago. It's the Viltrox 14mm f4, shot at f5.6. Although the transition through Flickr and this forum doesn't do it justice, I'm impressed with the sharpness. This is almost straight out of camera, with just an Adobe profile applied. I recognise that it's a bit too wide for normal landscapes but it was bought primarily for interiors.

Ribble Terrace by Stephen Lee, on Flickr
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I’ve also picked one up recently, it’s tiny compared to most lenses and pretty sharp, IIRC I paid £136 for a new lens
 
nog said:
I’ve also picked one up recently, it’s tiny compared to most lenses and pretty sharp, IIRC I paid £136 for a new lens
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Yes, I’m impressed with all the Viltrox lenses. I got mine for £153 from a UK supplier. Even full retail is good value.
 
I'm preferring the 4:3 aspect ratio for portait orientation these days, is there a setting on Sony that automatically changes the aspect ratio depending on whether you're shooting potrait or landscape? I can't find one but thought it was worh asking in case a missed it.
 
snerkler said:
I'm preferring the 4:3 aspect ratio for portait orientation these days, is there a setting on Sony that automatically changes the aspect ratio depending on whether you're shooting potrait or landscape? I can't find one but thought it was worh asking in case a missed it.
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If I understand you correctly, then no, I’ve not seen this option.
 
The focus tracking of this A7V and 40mm is incredible. In this shot she's running around me and changing direction fast, so both of us are moving and I've also got the camera down low (using the rear screen extended out), whilst trying to keep my balance and the camera still performs with every photo having perfect eye-AF. I would have struggled with the D810.

I've been playing around with lots of new free LR filters, there are some very nice ones, but I find a lot of them ruin the dynamic range. So, it's often a toss up between going down the more "arty" route or keeping it truer to real life. The latter seemed better in this case as her white fur parts can blow.

 
gman said:
The focus tracking of this A7V and 40mm is incredible. In this shot she's running around me and changing direction fast, so both of us are moving and I've also got the camera down low (using the rear screen extended out), whilst trying to keep my balance and the camera still performs with every photo having perfect eye-AF. I would have struggled with the D810.

I've been playing around with lots of new free LR filters, there are some very nice ones, but I find a lot of them ruin the dynamic range. So, it's often a toss up between going down the more "arty" route or keeping it truer to real life. The latter seemed better in this case as her white fur parts can blow.

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Looks good. Interested to know which aperture you’re using.
 
trevorbray said:
Looks good. Interested to know which aperture you’re using.
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Aye, f/2.5. Wouldn't mind a little faster, it's quite a safe dof when looking at that photo.
 
snerkler said:
I'm preferring the 4:3 aspect ratio for portait orientation these days, is there a setting on Sony that automatically changes the aspect ratio depending on whether you're shooting potrait or landscape? I can't find one but thought it was worh asking in case a missed it.
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Do we see a GFX100 in your future :ROFLMAO:

One of the reasons i personally like shooting higher res bodies, I can crop to preferred aspect ratios in post and still have plenty of pixels

GFX are natively 4:3 aspect ratio
 
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snerkler said:
I'm preferring the 4:3 aspect ratio for portait orientation these days, is there a setting on Sony that automatically changes the aspect ratio depending on whether you're shooting potrait or landscape? I can't find one but thought it was worh asking in case a missed it.
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I'm with you on this, 3x2 vertical is just all wrong, I though prefer 5:4, rather than 4:3 (though when I had a GFX I often would leave the photo in 4:3)

nandbytes said:
Do we see a GFX100 in your future :ROFLMAO:
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Can't see @snerkler getting a GFX, whilst the IQ might be up there, so is the bulk/weight. and the RF just doens't have a fast enough lens (and along with a lack of IBIS for such a high resolution, though a leaf shutter will help offset that a bit)
 
snerkler said:
I'm preferring the 4:3 aspect ratio for portait orientation these days, is there a setting on Sony that automatically changes the aspect ratio depending on whether you're shooting potrait or landscape? I can't find one but thought it was worh asking in case a missed it.
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I don't know... But 4/3 is in the menu so you could always set up a custom setting to select when you want to use 4/3, just to save diving into the menu.
 
nandbytes said:
Do we see a GFX100 in your future :ROFLMAO:

One of the reasons i personally like shooting higher res bodies, I can crop to preferred aspect ratios in post and still have plenty of pixels

GFX are natively 4:3 aspect ratio
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Nope, not on my radar that one. I'd like to try MF one day, but if I did it would probably have to be Hasselblad. I don't think I ever will though as I need a camera capable of shooting fast action, and also as David said the weight would put me off for everyday shooting.
Mr Perceptive said:
I'm with you on this, 3x2 vertical is just all wrong, I though prefer 5:4, rather than 4:3 (though when I had a GFX I often would leave the photo in 4:3)



Can't see @snerkler getting a GFX, whilst the IQ might be up there, so is the bulk/weight. and the RF just doens't have a fast enough lens (and along with a lack of IBIS for such a high resolution, though a leaf shutter will help offset that a bit)
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5:4 is also a nice aspect (y) As above, it's performance as weight that would ultimately put me off MF, not to mention the cost if I wanted Hasselblad ;)
woof woof said:
I don't know... But 4/3 is in the menu so you could always set up a custom setting to select when you want to use 4/3, just to save diving into the menu.
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Yeah I've thought of that but ideally I'd prefer not to have to take up a button for this. I do sometimes crop in post but I struggle seeing what. 4:3 framing would be like when looking at a 3:2 image. I definitely prefer the wider 3:2 for landscape orientation for most things so couldn't shoot 4:3 all the time.

It's something I've never considered before but it's strange that camera manufacturers don't offer the option to change apsect based on orientation.
 
snerkler said:
Yeah I've thought of that but ideally I'd prefer not to have to take up a button for this. I do sometimes crop in post but I struggle seeing what. 4:3 framing would be like when looking at a 3:2 image. I definitely prefer the wider 3:2 for landscape orientation for most things so couldn't shoot 4:3 all the time.
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AFAIK you don't need to use up a button for this. You have your memory settings on the dial (or at least I do) and I presume you can set up custom settings and save them to the card and recall them through the menu? All that might be a bit long winded though and it might be quicker to just have aspect ratios in your Fn menu.
 
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trevorbray said:
Do you have a faster lens ?
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Not at the moment, but the Sony 24mm f/1.4 GM is on my radar at the moment. Great price from Cotswold Cameras, but decided to see how I get on with the 40mm for a while. So far I could have done with a wider focal length, but in most cases I've been able to stitch instead.
 
woof woof said:
AFAIK you don't need to use up a button for this. You have your memory settings on the dial (or at least I do) and I presume you can set up custom settings and save them to the card and recall them through the menu? All that might be a bit long winded though and it might be quicker to just have aspect ratios in your Fn menu.
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Yeah I could set it to a memory dial I guess (y)
 
Re different aspect ratio for vertical, you'll just lose some of the frame if the camera crops for you: just imagine what you want and crop in post.
 
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ancient_mariner said:
Re different aspect ratio for vertical, you'll just lose of the frame if the camera crops for you: just imagine what you want and crop in post.
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Not if you are shooting RAW, it can help with framing, obviously the crop needs to be applied (again) in post, but it can be useful to make sure you have everything in frame (and excluded the items you don't want in frame) before pressing the shutter button.

You still have the option of a re-frame in post
 
Mr Perceptive said:
Not if you are shooting RAW, it can help with framing, obviously the crop needs to be applied (again) in post, but it can be useful to make sure you have everything in frame (and excluded the items you don't want in frame) before pressing the shutter button.

You still have the option of a re-frame in post
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Camera ends to cropping in RAW too like when APS-C mode is used

Also I think Sony missed a trick by not allowing for quicker e-shutter clearance on something like A7rvi when used in APS-C mode by reading out just the centre. Not sure if that's easily implemented but feel technically possible....
 
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