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

I had an hour off today so of course it poured down. I got cold and soaked and so did the camera but it was nice to be out.

A7 and Voigtonader 35mm f1.4.

The end of the line.

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Just trees and leaves.

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Wet.

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rookies said:
Ouch price gone up?

Mine was £850 at photography show
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You're not wrong, it's just the full retail price. Most shops have it at £750 now and I'm pretty sure around the time the Tamron came out there were a few places that had it as low as £550 with cashback.
 
I might be wrong with my price lol without getting bill out
 
As the body still hasn't arrived, can anyone tell me if it will be possible to backup my A7III to my phone over wifi whilst on holiday? Or failing that via USB

I can then shift them from phone to a USB OTG drive, that's the plan anyway

Got a trip planned in January and want to make sure i've got all the cables etc that I will need :)
 
I need a 2.4ghz wireless shutter control for the Sony A9

I have the Pixapro 2.4ghz ST-III transmitter and receiver (receiver newly bought for this) but the supplied cables are incompatible - it would need a 2.5mm jack to micro USB-a, but even if I find somewhere to source it - I don't know if it'll work and so I'm thinking i'll send it back

Don't want to buy the Meike Grip

Any good solution?

At the moment only the likes of this look promising, not cheap though.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/AODELAN-Wireless-Shutter-Release-Control-Sony/dp/B078GL4Y32/
 
jonneymendoza said:
i would try sourcing a 2.5mm to micro usb a jack to see if it will work first before sending it back?
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You can get them cheap from Hong Kong for £2.50... but might not turn up for a month and I need it for Monday :)

i will look some more, if I can find somewhere, but if it arrives and doesn't work then i've lost time messing around
 
Looks like my only option is
https://www.amazon.co.uk/AODELAN-Wireless-Shutter-Release-Control-Sony/dp/B078GL4Y32/

The cable I want, I can't find in the UK - in the US it's about $8

Pocketwizards are expensive, I don't need them for my lights - and even once you've bought them, the cable for the Sony A9 shutter release is £35! That cable is 3.5mm jack not 2.5mm so no good for use with my Pixapro reciver.

The playmemories mobile app works, but only up to about 10 metres - same as when I tried the Leica app for another camera.
 


"I'm just sitting watching flowers in the rain
Feel the power of the rain making the garden grow
I'm just sitting watching flowers in the rain
Feel the power of the rain keeping me good"
 
Can someone please tell me how to turn off the LCD panel live View? Basically it’s bloody annoying when I look through the viewfinder then take my eye away from the viewfinder for the LCD to switch to live view. Basically I want the camera to work like a dslr- view through the viewfinder and switch on live view on LCD when required. I know there should be a setting somewhere in the menus but I just can’t find it!
 
rob-nikon said:
Can someone please tell me how to turn off the LCD panel live View? Basically it’s bloody annoying when I look through the viewfinder then take my eye away from the viewfinder for the LCD to switch to live view. Basically I want the camera to work like a dslr- view through the viewfinder and switch on live view on LCD when required. I know there should be a setting somewhere in the menus but I just can’t find it!
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Menu, camera icon 2, page 6 (display/auto review) select finder/monitor, it’s set to auto, move highlight to viewfinder, and click centre button to select. Back out of menu.
When you want to change menu items again, you have to use the vf to change back to auto for ease of use.
HTH
 
You could then set up a custom button to activate live view should you need it.
 
rookies said:
Not sure if this any good can’t make my mind up if too much ground

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by Andrew Rookes, on Flickr
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I'm not sure about the "too much ground" but more not enough at the top, the trees look too cropped, maybe more height and a bit more depth to the shot, maybe a bit more to the right for balance so as to to keep the panorama aspect. The contrast between the crisp colours in the foreground against the soft, washed out tones in the trees works really well. I would like to see more made of the mist
 
david357 said:
Menu, camera icon 2, page 6 (display/auto review) select finder/monitor, it’s set to auto, move highlight to viewfinder, and click centre button to select. Back out of menu.
When you want to change menu items again, you have to use the vf to change back to auto for ease of use.
HTH
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Thanks for that, it’s great to only be using the viewfinder rather than both. I’ve set the custom button for C4 to ‘finder/monitor sel’ so I can toggle the LCD on and off by pressing that button. Much easier and hopefully saves a bit of battery life without the LCD on when I don’t need it to be on.
 
rob-nikon said:
Thanks for that, it’s great to only be using the viewfinder rather than both. I’ve set the custom button for C4 to ‘finder/monitor sel’ so I can toggle the LCD on and off by pressing that button. Much easier and hopefully saves a bit of battery life without the LCD on when I don’t need it to be on.
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Evf uses more battery than LCD.
 
rob-nikon said:
Thanks for that, it’s great to only be using the viewfinder rather than both. I’ve set the custom button for C4 to ‘finder/monitor sel’ so I can toggle the LCD on and off by pressing that button. Much easier and hopefully saves a bit of battery life without the LCD on when I don’t need it to be on.
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But seriously, give the screen a fair go. No need for BBF, tap your focus point and bang. So quick! I’ve morphed into using both, depending.
 
twist said:
Evf uses more battery than LCD.
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Isn’t the EVF only on when your eye is up to the viewfinder? The LCD was constantly when my eye wasn’t to the viewfinder lining up an image.

Livin The Dream said:
But seriously, give the screen a fair go. No need for BBF, tap your focus point and bang. So quick! I’ve morphed into using both, depending.
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I will have a play with that. It does sound useful.
 
rob-nikon said:
Can someone please tell me how to turn off the LCD panel live View? Basically it’s bloody annoying when I look through the viewfinder then take my eye away from the viewfinder for the LCD to switch to live view. Basically I want the camera to work like a dslr- view through the viewfinder and switch on live view on LCD when required. I know there should be a setting somewhere in the menus but I just can’t find it!
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This was an annoyance to me but to make it make exactly like a DSLR I did the following:

Menu tab 2 then 6/9
Click on DISP Button
Click monitor
Click bottom check box - Monitor off
Come out of menu
Click DISP button (top of scroll button) and you can now cycle through to monitor off.
 
The rumor site says that Sigma have issued a firmware update for the MC-11 adapter.

While I'm here, A7 and Voigtlander 35mm f1.4 again.

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justa1972 said:
Yes thats it really - trying to find the best quality zoom lens with the lowest weight/size. The Tamron is a bit too big for my liking - even the 28-70 seems enormous to me !
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I like my 24-70 f4, but i'm hoping to swap it for the 24-105 f4.
 
JJ! said:
This was an annoyance to me but to make it make exactly like a DSLR I did the following:

Menu tab 2 then 6/9
Click on DISP Button
Click monitor
Click bottom check box - Monitor off
Come out of menu
Click DISP button (top of scroll button) and you can now cycle through to monitor off.
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I think at first it’s natural to set them up like a dslr, as I did too. Didn’t last long. The best part is losing focus, recompose. How much easier!

Also had the screen off setup initially but went back.
 
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Livin The Dream said:
I think at first it’s natural to set them up like a dslr, as I did too. Didn’t last long. The best part is losing focus, recompose. How much easier!

Also had the screen off setup initially but went back.
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Just find the EVF much easier and more atble when tracking sports for me so its a better set up for me, but for other situations I can see the benefits of screen.
 
I've just received an m mount adapter for my Voigtlander 35mm f1.4 and after firing off a few test shots I'm quite happy. I'd read that this lens is soft wide open, vignetted like crazy, had really bad barrel distortion and had ca but in use after applying the profile in CS5 I'm quite pleased. The vignetting is well within the range of CS5 to correct and the barrel distortion which is visible when taking shots seems to be insignificant (this is after applying the profile, architectural photographers may still see it as a problem.) There's purple fringing at 100% in some shots with bright objects and it may be visible in some other shots but so far it's not shown itself too much in my test shots and lastly although the lens is softish wide open it's ok after a little more sharpening than I'd usually apply and it's sharper at f2 to the point that IMO it's good anywhere you'd put a main subject in the frame at f2.

Test shots.

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100% but as usual this wont be quite as sharp here as it is on my screen. On my screen it's not Sony 55mm f1.8 sharp but good enough.

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100% from the top third. Same comment about sharpness here and the Sony 55mm.

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I think this lens is ok at f1.4, easily sharp enough even at 100% after a bit more sharpening and vignetting and barrel distortion aren't so far issues for me. It's not quite as good as the e mount version and one thing that I definitely don't like is focusing with the focus tab as I'd much rather have a focus ring.

Oh, the minimum focus distance is pants so this isn't a lens for pseudo macro shots... I have a close focus adapter on the way so I'll see how it is with that.
 
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