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

[pmac]

The f/1.2 lenses aren’t that heavy.

Plenty of Sony wedding photographers carrying the 28-70 f/2 and the 50-150 f/2 and two bodies around all day for 14 hours or so at a time.

To be fair they're not as heavy as Canon, and especially Nikon f1.2's but they're not light either. If you're doing a job then yeah you'll lug them about, but if you're just going for a day out you don't really want to be lugging all that weight around, at least I don't

Exactly this i shoot for fun nothing else.
The reason I sold my last 70-200 was the extra weight when out walking with the kids.
The 1.2 isn’t that heavy but for a fixed focal length lens is noticeably heavier and having two lens at that weight for fun isn’t ideal

 

[woof woof]

The f/1.2 lenses aren’t that heavy.

Plenty of Sony wedding photographers carrying the 28-70 f/2 and the 50-150 f/2 and two bodies around all day for 14 hours or so at a time.

All things are relative. The Sony 50mm f1.2 is 3x the weight of the 55mm f1.8 and almost twice the weight of my Voigtlander 50mm f1.2. It's also 1/4 the weight of my toolbox (if it's empty) and 70% the weight of an empty Billingham Hadley Pro.

I care about weight and I would notice the difference and for me size is also an issue as I don't want to be too obvious when taking pictures and having large kit does attract more attention. Faced with a choice of heavy or large I'd rather have something heavy but still acceptable size wise than something large.

Reading the past few pages I realise I'm in a minority or probably one as I'm just a happy snapper and most of the time photography is an add on to what I'm doing not that main thing and happily I don't need to generate an income so compact and if possible compact and light weight kit is what I want.

 

[addicknchips]

F1.2 glass with high mega pixel bodies. Just saying

 

[snerkler]

Reading the past few pages I realise I'm in a minority or probably one as I'm just a happy snapper and most of the time photography is an add on to what I'm doing not that main thing and happily I don't need to generate an income so compact and if possible compact and light weight kit is what I want.

I’m definitely getting more like this, as I said above my ‘big kit’ is hardly getting any use, in fact off the top of my head I can only recall using the A1 twice this year.

 

[woof woof]

F1.2 glass with high mega pixel bodies. Just saying

Great for cropping but being honest I don't need the light gathering ability of f1.2. I use to take a lot of pictures at gigs but that was a long time ago now and with ISO 1,60o film These days even f2.5 is mostly ok especially as I can take a picture which is ok for me at ISO's like 8k at 1/40-1/1xx. So if I don't need the light gathering ability of f1.2 what's left? Thin DoF and the size of the bokeh balls.

I do realise that f1.2 lenses have other optical advantages over something like the cheaper f1.4/f1.8's.

 

[woof woof]

I’m definitely getting more like this, as I said above my ‘big kit’ is hardly getting any use, in fact off the top of my head I can only recall using the A1 twice this year.

Since getting the Sony 40mm I've hardly used anything else. I've used the 35 and 55mm f1.8's for thin DoF but not often. I've thought about selling some AF lenses but it's worth keeping just for the once or twice a year times I want to use it.

While I'm here, another holiday snap



Shame about the building work.

 

[GyRob]

some serious distortion on the tall building to the right ,looks like its falling over