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

I like the look of the 50-150 but how much use it’ll get is anyone’s guess.

Patiently waiting for the 100-400 4.5 to go live on grey market so I can order.
 
Whiles I'm thinking of Pisa. I took a lot of panoramas and a few have had issues when stitching with CS2026. The problem is that I get a message saying that it can't "parse" the file. This has only affected some stitches and not most others and it doesn't seem to be file size related so I'm a bit stuck. I've tried deleting the package and reinstalling and I get the same results, it just doesn't seem to be able to "parse" some of the panoramas... but when I switch to to CS5 that can.

Anyone seen this before?
 
addicknchips said:
F1.2 glass with high mega pixel bodies. Just saying
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:agree:

pmac said:
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
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As Jon's hinting with a high res body, I just carry couple lenses and use crop mode.
So instead of carrying 35mm, 50mm, 85mm, 135mm i just carry fast 35mm and 85mm primes and crop, while still maintaining shallow enough DoF.
 
snerkler said:
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 (y)
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My whole usual kit is around 3kgs

Not all that heavy to be honest.
I carry my 3 year old on my shoulders for half the day, she is at least 4x heavier :ROFLMAO:
 
pmac said:
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
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Bro when I shot just for fun I used to head out with 2 x D700 grips and all, a 24-70 on one a 70-200 on the other and a 35,50,85 in a bag. :D
 
As you get older the weight makes a difference. When I was 27 I wandered around with a medium format outfit on one shoulder, a 35mm SLR with 28-70, 70-210 beercan and 18mm + 50mm primes on the other, plus carry a kid. Now in my mid 60s a Sony A7III and a couple of lenses are enough.
 
ancient_mariner said:
As you get older the weight makes a difference. When I was 27 I wandered around with a medium format outfit on one shoulder, a 35mm SLR with 28-70, 70-210 beercan and 18mm + 50mm primes on the other, plus carry a kid. Now in my mid 60s a Sony A7III and a couple of lenses are enough.
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Yeah once upon a time I'd have carried anything, but having had fibromyalgia for the past 10 years or so carrying heavy equipment is far from ideal. When I do motorsports (A1, 100-400mm, 70-200mm f2.8 and a prime) I'm in pain for 3 or 4 days after :rolleyes:
 
I've got a couple of 'marks' on my sensor, they look like dust but they're not budging. I've tried the in camera cleaning, rocket blower, dry swab and wet swab, I even risked going at them with the corner of the swab. Any ideas what it might be and how to shift it? I've had pollen on sensors before but it's usually shifted with a couple of goes with the wet swab :thinking:
 
snerkler said:
I've got a couple of 'marks' on my sensor, they look like dust but they're not budging. I've tried the in camera cleaning, rocket blower, dry swab and wet swab, I even risked going at them with the corner of the swab. Any ideas what it might be and how to shift it? I've had pollen on sensors before but it's usually shifted with a couple of goes with the wet swab :thinking:
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Pollen prob can be a real pain to remove.
 
snerkler said:
Looks great, no apologies necessary.

Most of my holiday snaps and dog walk photos will be going in the Fuji thread now, will give you all a nice break ;)
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As like me you can tend to dive a little deeply into things :D I'm a bit surprised you've gone for a X100 although I know you compared the Fuji to the RX1. OK I've only had earlier ones, S and F, but apart from the look of the camera and the controls and the good evf everything else was a disappointment for me even compared to my GX9 and GX80 let alone my Sony A7's.

I've hung on to my MFT kit because of the 14mm f2.5, 45-150mm and 100-400mm but recently after using the A7cII and 40mm the gap in IQ between my A7cII and GX80 seems to be significant whereas when I had just the A7 the gap didn't seem quite so big.

I can see myself buying a second A7c camera especially if they bring out one with the do it all back screen so that I can have a 40mm and a 24mm on two cameras ready to go, but I'd rather have 28 and 40mm. Actually if they do bring out an A7c with the do it all screen I might buy two as I don't like the articulating screen and I'm finding that I'm getting an increased number of pictures which need straightening.
 
woof woof said:
As like me you can tend to dive a little deeply into things :D I'm a bit surprised you've gone for a X100 although I know you compared the Fuji to the RX1. OK I've only had earlier ones, S and F, but apart from the look of the camera and the controls and the good evf everything else was a disappointment for me even compared to my GX9 and GX80 let alone my Sony A7's.

I've hung on to my MFT kit because of the 14mm f2.5, 45-150mm and 100-400mm but recently after using the A7cII and 40mm the gap in IQ between my A7cII and GX80 seems to be significant whereas when I had just the A7 the gap didn't seem quite so big.

I can see myself buying a second A7c camera especially if they bring out one with the do it all back screen so that I can have a 40mm and a 24mm on two cameras ready to go, but I'd rather have 28 and 40mm. Actually if they do bring out an A7c with the do it all screen I might buy two as I don't like the articulating screen and I'm finding that I'm getting an increased number of pictures which need straightening.
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You may recall I was never too impressed with the Fuji output but it is much better now, and I'm really enjoying the X100VI. In terms of a user experience it's much nicer than the RX1R II, and IQ is 95% as good.
 
snerkler said:
You may recall I was never too impressed with the Fuji output but it is much better now, and I'm really enjoying the X100VI. In terms of a user experience it's much nicer than the RX1R II, and IQ is 95% as good.
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The rx1r series is the type of camera that induces comments around Sony being an electronics company and not a camera company. Impressive tech but a pig to use.
 
addicknchips said:
The rx1r series is the type of camera that induces comments around Sony being an electronics company and not a camera company. Impressive tech but a pig to use.
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I don't think it's a pig to use per se, I think it's more a case of it being 10+ year old tech. There's no animal AF, there's no ability to BBF, and the user UI is slow, ofr example reviewing images can be annoying. Beautiful images though and lovely bokeh.
 
Took delivery of the Viltrox 2x TC, tried it on with my Sigma 500mm f5.6
AF works pretty well and surprisingly snappy (given it was a cloudy day)

Wasn't best of weather or light to try testing sharpness with such a dark setup but I gave it a go anyway in my garden
Shots just under ISO6400 with A7RV

I wasn't expecting much, especially given the light and 2x TC.... but colour me impressed!

1.3x crop
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100% crop
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1.5x vertical crop
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And crop again
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nandbytes said:
Indeed, makes sigma tele lenses more appealing now. They are all limited to 15fps but at least we have working option for TC.
Just hoping viltrox make a 1.4x TC now
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15fps is enough imo.
 
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nandbytes said:
Might work, though I haven't seen reports. Works with sigma 100mm f2.8 macro also

Next time I'm in town i can try testing it if Wex have a copy of sigma 200mm f2
Certainly a tempting combination....

Apparently works with laowa 200mm f2
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Hmmmm just I wonder how many months until a z mount tc is released
 
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