Sony A700 Quicky Question

[TurnipFarmer]

A question for those who have the A700, when taking my photo should I have it in the Bracket: Single 0.3EV 3 or should I have it in Single-shot adv?

Your help and advice would be great

 

[TurnipFarmer]

Also another one for the A700 owners but do you know how to adjust the in camera sharpening? I cant find it :shrug:

 

[onomatopoeia]

Bracket if you want to bracket - don't really understand the question, there is no setting you "should" use, it depends on what you are doing.

Sharpening is changed in the creative style menu on the main display, select the style you want (standard, portrait, adobe RGB etc) and adjust the various parameters for that style from there. I'm not sure that they all allow the in camera sharpening to be changed.

 

[TurnipFarmer]

Cheers for the advice. The reason why I ask is that since I've had my a700 it's been set using bracket single 0.3ev which I presume is wrong if I want to shoot single photos and not bracket, this might be why my exposures are wrong.

Also found the sharpening thing cheers doesn't seem to be that sharp with kit lens.

 

[onomatopoeia]

If the kit lens is the 18-70 it isn't that sharp. The 18-55 is apparently better.

If it is set to bracketing then you will get three shots if you keep the shutter depressed long enough. One of them should be the correct exposure (I think it's the second one), one will be underexposed and one over exposed.

 

[TurnipFarmer]

Ok cool, so what's the difference between bracket single and bracket continuous setting when you press the drive button?

Yeah the 18-70 lens is a bit pants, can you recommend a good kit lens replacement?

 

[onomatopoeia]

There isn't a "bracket single" option? From memory (camera at home) the options are single shot, continuous advance (fast or slow), bulb, remote triggered and a variety of bracketing options which will take either three or five shots, at different exposure compensation values. If you select one of the bracket options it will only take all the shots (3 or 5) if you keep the shutter depressed until it finishes, else it will stop when the shutter is released.

A good APS-C replacement for the kit lens is the Sony ZA 16-80. At least I like it. Others like the Tamron 17-50/2.8, haven't tried that one.

There is a "Sony alpha users" topic in Talk eqpuiment which more people are likely to see.

 

[TurnipFarmer]

Ok cheers for the advice.

I must be getting confused with the bracketing thing, I'll have to check my camera.

 

[TurnipFarmer]

Still haven't got round to checking it but also the reason why I ask is that some of the photos I have taken when I had my A200 look sharper than the ones taken with the same lens on the A700, is there a reason for this?

 

[Marc]

There is a single shot Brkt setting. I don't use bracketing but would think the difference is, when in continuous, you press the shutter and it fires of however many you have it set at and in single, you press the shutter individually.