Newbie, Lens help please?

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Hi guys, just bought this camera:

http://www.jessops.com/online.store/products/77764/show.html

And this lens:

http://www.jessops.com/online.store/products/74938/show.html

I've put the new lens on the camera and theres a few things bothering me:

1. The viewfinder display is really dark
2. The pics are grainy in the settings i've played with, and in auto too

Heres a couple of trial pics, i know theres a couple of speks of dust on the lens, but these are SOOC. They were taken on full zoom apart from one. All different settings though:

http://img849.imageshack.us/i/dsc00198m.jpg

http://img217.imageshack.us/i/dsc00208rd.jpg

http://img820.imageshack.us/i/dsc00209m.jpg

http://img820.imageshack.us/i/dsc00209m.jpg

http://img820.imageshack.us/i/dsc00209m.jpg

Is there particular settings i need to do etc? I've just upgraded from a fuji s5800. So im not familiar with this camera.

All i did was put the lens on the camera so far. Its probs a simple solution, hope someone can help me :)

Cheers
 
i would suggest using either full manual or use the time value (not sure if it's called this on sony's).

Settings are to be fine adjusted to suite but here's a rough guide.

ISO (lower the better) 100 / 200 / 400 (depending on how much light you have)
aperture depends on what you want to achieve, but if you want everything in focus, F8.0 is usually good.
Speed around 1 / 500s ( slower speeds will get the motion blur, and faster speed will get a static shot).
 
Could be the metering. Quick flick through the camera's spec says it has an averaging ('evaluative' or 'multi-segment') type. This means it'll generally expose mainly for the overall average light, and not specifically expose for very white whites or very black blacks, simply evening them out. Your aeroplane shots, by their nature, include a lot of open sky. Our eyes/brain ignore this and concentrate on the 'plane. Camera meters don't.
You could try some compensation, putting in a +EV of about 2/3 or 1 stop. 2/3 is sometimes displayed on cameras as 0.7. Have a play and see is usually the best way :)
I think it does AE bracketing? If you can, set this for 3 frames at 1 stop, then you'll see the difference. The camera will take 3 shots. One at the 'right' exposure, one under exposed and one over exposed, according to it's meter.
The graininess is noise from the high ISO settings. You can see it's much more obvious in the shot that's at 3200 ISO.
If you've got the camera in full Program with Auto ISO, it'll change the ISO according to what it thinks is best for the light, trading off shutter speed, aperture and ISO to give a 'best fit' exposure.
 
guys i tried your tips and had no look, took it back to jessops and it turned out to be faulty so they've ordered me another one :)
 
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