I managed a few hours away last evening so I thought I'd shoot the sunset from the pier but as luck would have it the almost cloudless sky turned to a band of thick cloud where the sunset was, oh well...
As this is a gear forum... I'm constantly impressed by the gear.
I got there sometime between 21:00 and 21:45 (times included to give you some idea of the light levels) and this shot of the pier was taken at 22:01 at a modest ISO 640. I took my tripod but I just couldn't bring myself to do a silky water shot
I prefer to see some waves
Another pier shot at 22:17 and this time at ISO 5,000.
At 22:05 this is a 100% crop from another ISO 5,000 shot, it'll be strangled a bit by Photobucked here but it's nice on my screen and I can read the number on the boat and it's sharp too.
Woollen thingies on the pier at 22:14 and ISO 8,000.
Looking back to land from the pier at 22:15 and ISO 16,000.
Woollen things on the pier at 22:07 and ISO 20,000.
All of these look good on my screen and would be fine for screen viewing or even quite large prints. As always I'm impressed
With my 5D I'd have been limited to ISO 3,200 and I'd probably have had to shoot everything at f1.4 but with the A7 I can shoot at ISO silly in manual mode with the shutter speed set to 1/100 and more reasonable apertures and just let the ISO float up and down. I took 35mm f1.8, 85mm f2 and 135mm f2.8 and shot from wide open to f8 with most shots being in the f4-f8 range. Wonderful