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

trevorbray said:
Yep. Not used it much. Plenty-sharp though. This at 28mm. Wide open.
Don’t think I’ve got anything wider.

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I’m unsure if I would benefit from this lens. It’s undoubtedly nice to have, but in actuality I tend to shoot with zooms at the ends of their ranges. This leans me to the Samyang 18mm. I think that this leaves room for simply cropping between 18 mm and 28mm.
 
Stephen L said:
I’m unsure if I would benefit from this lens. It’s undoubtedly nice to have, but in actuality I tend to shoot with zooms at the ends of their ranges. This leans me to the Samyang 18mm. I think that this leaves room for simply cropping between 18 mm and 28mm.
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I think the main advantage is that a few mm at the wide end of things is quite noticeable compared to longer lengths. I did, a while ago, consider this instead of the Voigtländer 21mm.
 
LeeRatters said:
I think the main advantage is that a few mm at the wide end of things is quite noticeable compared to longer lengths. I did, a while ago, consider this instead of the Voigtländer 21mm.
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This is very true. On APSC I rarely moved even 1 millimetre from 10mm on the 10-18.
 
Stephen L said:
Obtusely, once a cheap lens becomes known for its quality, the price rockets. I never seem to find them in their early stages of metamorphosis. :(
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I started buying them for my Panasonic G1 before I got my A7 so that's maybe 8 years ago or more and at the time you could get a nice mass market camera brand 50mm f1.8 for £15, a £28mm f2.8 for not a lot more and a 135mm for about the same although 24, 35 and 85mm lenses were more expensive but still reasonable. These days bargains can still be found especially third party lenses but generally the prices have risen although they're still cheaper than even the cheapest modern AF lenses.

I still think they're worth at least looking at though as they're lovely, well made, nice to use and they'll probably last decades more.
 
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woof woof said:
I started buying them for my Panasonic G1 before I got my A7 so that's maybe 8 years ago or more and at the time you could get a nice mass market camera brand 50mm f1.8 for £15, a £28mm f2.8 for not a lot more and a 135mm for about the same although 24, 35 and 85mm lenses were more expensive but still reasonable. These days bargains can still be found especially third party lenses but generally the prices have risen although they're still cheaper than even the cheapest modern AF lenses.

I still think they're worth at least looking at though as they're lovely, well made, nice to use and they'll probably last decades more.
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Oh, I’ve still got quite a collection. But only a few have Sony adapters - yet! My all-time favourite is the OM 100mm silvernose, followed by a Pentax 50mm.
 
Stephen L said:
Oh, I’ve still got quite a collection. But only a few have Sony adapters - yet! My all-time favourite is the OM 100mm silvernose, followed by a Pentax 50mm.
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Is there an adapter for OM lenses on a Sony then as I have quite a few? I don't have the 100 but I do have 24, 28, 35, 50, 24-48. 35-70, 135 to have a play with :)

Scrub that, I searched and found them but any recommendation on brand?
 
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Stephen L said:
Oh, I’ve still got quite a collection. But only a few have Sony adapters - yet! My all-time favourite is the OM 100mm silvernose, followed by a Pentax 50mm.
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I bought cheap adapters for MFT for Minolta and Olympus lenses but for my Sony I bought Novoflex for Minolta, Olympus and Canon FD. When I started buying Nikon lenses I went back to a cheap K&F concept and although the dots don't quite line up it does work just as well as the £90+ Novoflex adapters.
 
scotty38 said:
Is there an adapter for OM lenses on a Sony then as I have quite a few? I don't have the 100 but I do have 24, 28, 35, 50, 24-48. 35-70, 135 to have a play with :)

Scrub that, I searched and found them but any recommendation on brand?
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I have a Novoflex but if buying again I'd just get a cheap one as honestly there doesn't seem to be any real difference in use, the expensive ones might just look nicer and the dots might line up perfectly but in use... nada.

When I first got my A7 I used Oly lenses quite a bit.

My sisters dog Toby in 2013. Sadly he's now in doggie heaven. Taken with a Zuiko 50mm f1.8 which cost under £20.

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scotty38 said:
Is there an adapter for OM lenses on a Sony then as I have quite a few? I don't have the 100 but I do have 24, 28, 35, 50, 24-48. 35-70, 135 to have a play with :)

Scrub that, I searched and found them but any recommendation on brand?
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Difficult to recommend a brand as many of them are unbranded, but if possible I try to go for K&F Concept. And yes, the Sony adapter was the one I first buy for any system, such is my love for the 100mm.
 
Unashamed plug - I've put a Samyang AF 45mm f1.8 in the 'for sale' thread.
 
Malfis said:
Unashamed plug - I've put a Samyang AF 45mm f1.8 in the 'for sale' thread.
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Good price. Damn shame, that would have been a possibility for me but I'm looking at getting a Sigma 56mm f1.4 as I want as fast a lens as possible for night time shooting and the slightly extra reach.
 
Stephen L said:
Difficult to recommend a brand as many of them are unbranded, but if possible I try to go for K&F Concept. And yes, the Sony adapter was the one I first buy for any system, such is my love for the 100mm.
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Thanks I went for the Gobe equivalent before I saw your post. Looked exactly the same as the K&F for £4 less....
 
scotty38 said:
Thanks I went for the Gobe equivalent before I saw your post. Looked exactly the same as the K&F for £4 less....
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Ah. I was unaware that Gobe did adapters. I only know them for filters.
 
woof woof said:
Finding an adapter and even a lens is the easy part.

Stopping yourself from buying more and more lenses is the hard part.

This isn't them all as I've bought more since I took this.

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The hardest part for me would be deciding which to use. I'd be like a Jack Russell with 3 tennis balls!
 
woof woof said:
Finding an adapter and even a lens is the easy part.

Stopping yourself from buying more and more lenses is the hard part.

This isn't them all as I've bought more since I took this.

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Im exactly the same, when lockdown hit and finances were tight, I sold off my manual lens collection, I went down to 5 lenses. It has since crept back upto 8 and I have my on eye a Minolta M-Rokkor 40mm F2 and a Pentax K 28mm F2.8 as I regret selling that one so much..
I have always found the K&F concept adapters to be really good, though I have a couple of Fotodiox ones and I have never had any issues with those either...
 
MrMackyB said:
Im exactly the same, when lockdown hit and finances were tight, I sold off my manual lens collection, I went down to 5 lenses. It has since crept back upto 8 and I have my on eye a Minolta M-Rokkor 40mm F2 and a Pentax K 28mm F2.8 as I regret selling that one so much..
I have always found the K&F concept adapters to be really good, though I have a couple of Fotodiox ones and I have never had any issues with those either...
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40mm f2? That's heading into serious money. I have the much cheaper Minolta Rokkor 45mm f2, which BTW has quite nice bokeh.

There's a nice little article here about the Olympus 40mm f2 and how it went from a cheap lens that no one wanted to being very sought after and expensive :D

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Continued practising my street photography today in a nearby high street.

Drive Through Salon.


Hairdryer by Merlin 5, on Flickr
 
ancient_mariner said:
Good timing, but you might want to fix the colours. :)
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Yes, the timing was fortunate and I only just caught it but the focus isn't great. :D That's what sirch said about the colours, he said it looks a little green. Hmm yeah, I need to watch how I process colours. I'm apparently red green colour blind. Don't really know what that means as I see both of those colours but there must be something discerning certain shades.

While I'm here, one more from today that I call wet and waiting.


Wet & Waiting by Merlin 5, on Flickr
 
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Merlin5 said:
That's what sirch said about the colours, he said it looks a little green. Hmm yeah, I need to watch how I process colours. I'm apparently red green colour blind
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Assuming you use Lightroom, find something that should be white and then use the colour-correction dropper on it. The green/cyan colourcast in that image has completely swamped it.
 
Merlin5 said:
Is this better?


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Better is subjective.

That's probably a more accurate capture of the scene but which do you prefer? There's nothing wrong with a little artistic interpretation / colour shift if it looks good. The guys skin tone may be off in the first but other than that I like the first and it's shift away from the capture of accurate and maybe emotionally less pleasing cold reality.

Just my VHO :D
 
woof woof said:
Better is subjective.

That's probably a more accurate capture of the scene but which do you prefer? There's nothing wrong with a little artistic interpretation / colour shift if it looks good. The guys skin tone may be off in the first but other than that I like the first and it's shift away from the capture of accurate and maybe emotionally less pleasing cold reality.

Just my VHO :D
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I prefer the first one too, lol. But if more than one person tells me that the colours are off then I know I've done something wrong and I'd rather have something that looks 'correct' and more eye pleasing to others.
 
Anyone use 3rd party batteries in their A7C? And does it come with a stand-alone charger?
 
Merlin5 said:
I prefer the first one too, lol. But if more than one person tells me that the colours are off then I know I've done something wrong and I'd rather have something that looks 'correct' and more eye pleasing to others.
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Why? It's your picture.

Maybe you can have two versions, one an accurate capture of the scene and the other a more artistic rendering. You may prefer one on Monday and the other on Tuesday :D

The guys skin tone is maybe a bit too far off in the first so maybe adjust just that and leave the rest of the image as a more artistic interpretation :D
 
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addicknchips said:
all 35mm? :wave:
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haha! Not quite and I think I still have more 50's than 35's.

Probably because in the 50mm universe you have f1.2, 1.4, 1.7, 1.8, 2 and f2.8 to choose from (or buy them all) but in the 35mm universe f2.8 is arguably the most common (amongst mass market film era lenses) although I do have a Minolta Rokkor f1.8 and it's a very nice lens. I do also have a Nikon 35mm f2.5 so that's a bit different too.
 
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woof woof said:
Why? It's your picture.

Maybe you can have two versions, one an accurate capture of the scene and the other a more artistic rendering. YOu may prefer one on Monday and the other on Tuesday :D

The guys skin tone is maybe a bit too far off in the first so maybe adjust just that and leave the rest of the image as a more artistic interpretation :D
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:D True. Still, the way I see it is if I want people to enjoy my work but the colours are putting them off, then I'm doing myself an injustice and giving them sore eyes.
 
Merlin5 said:
:D True. Still, the way I see it is if I want people to enjoy my work but the colours are putting them off, then I'm doing myself an injustice and giving them sore eyes.
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I prefer the second. The colour cast in the first is a little too strong for me and it looks accidental.

But.. carry on experimenting and find an editing style that you like :)
 
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