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

GreenNinja67 said:
If I take anything interesting with them I'll post here.

Well, just down there a bit ↓
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I'm starting to forget what film era lens I used for which picture now.

Of my Olympus Zuikos the 50mm f1.8 is probably my favourite and I do wish we had lenses of this size and optical quality available in Sony mount so that we don't need an adapter but IMO they're few and far between. The TTArtisan 50mm f2 is tiny but with some obvious issues and optically IMO the Zuiko is the better lens.
 
woof woof said:
I'd like a really good valet on all my cars. The local car wash place does an OK job for IMO a slightly inflated price so a while back I rang a bloke who seemed to get good reviews and he and his son came and did all my cars at my home but really it's only just a better job than the local car wash, nothing to WoW me. I'd really like a good buff and polish on all of them. I used to really go to town on my cars but I'm passed that now, too much other stuff to do.
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I polished and ceramic coated my own car. Took nearly 3 days all told. If I was to do it again I would just pay someone to do it. Huge amount of work.
 
f/2.8 said:
I polished and ceramic coated my own car. Took nearly 3 days all told. If I was to do it again I would just pay someone to do it. Huge amount of work.
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I’ve been thinking about having my bike ceramic coated but it’s £500 to have someone do it :oops: :$
 
f/2.8 said:
That’s expensive. I can get the car done for about £350.
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Maybe I need to have a ride over to Northern Ireland ;)
 
f/2.8 said:
I polished and ceramic coated my own car. Took nearly 3 days all told. If I was to do it again I would just pay someone to do it. Huge amount of work.
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This is the thing plus is it just my imagination or do we rarely get three consecutive days of good weather these days?

I hadn't heard of ceramic coating so I googled it and the first thing that came up was Autogym. I used to use their products decades ago and I still have a part used bottle of Super Resin Polish although I'm sure what I generally used was their Polymer Sealant. Whatever I used I used to get a better result than I got from the professional valeter who did my cars recently. I think I might have to try someone else.
 
GreenNinja67 said:
@woof woof, some shots from the Tamron mirror lens.
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I think they are very soft but I wonder if some of this is due to the posting process, do they look better on your screen?

If they are a true representation of what you see on your screen then I'm struggling to think of a use for which this level of image quality would be acceptable. There may be some uses for some people, it's just I'm struggling to think of them.
 
Oh, just on those returned lenses.

I've unpacked them and checked them to make sure they are the lenses I sent off and for any obvious damage and lo and behold... Two zooms are included, one I bought and did use a couple of times and one I got free and have never used. The free one, and I'll be as kind as I possibly can here... has some very obvious damage to the coating which I haven't noticed before today. Now, it could be that in the multiple times I've inspected this lens... when I got it, when I sent it to Yorkshire, when I got it back and then when I sent it up north... I've missed all this but it is very obvious and I spotted it immediately this time.
 
woof woof said:
This is the thing plus is it just my imagination or do we rarely get three consecutive days of good weather these days?

I hadn't heard of ceramic coating so I googled it and the first thing that came up was Autogym. I used to use their products decades ago and I still have a part used bottle of Super Resin Polish although I'm sure what I generally used was their Polymer Sealant. Whatever I used I used to get a better result than I got from the professional valeter who did my cars recently. I think I might have to try someone else.
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Yeah it has to be done indoors or it’s a waste of time.

Car has to be fully decontaminated, then machine polished and then coated. Autoglym don’t do a proper ceramic coating.
 
woof woof said:
I think they are very soft but I wonder if some of this is due to the posting process, do they look better on your screen?

If they are a true representation of what you see on your screen then I'm struggling to think of a use for which this level of image quality would be acceptable. There may be some uses for some people, it's just I'm struggling to think of them.
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No, on my screen they are soft as hell.

Going on eBay as it's in mint condition so I can't be accused of not as described.
 
Like the first shot more though the reflection on the lhs of the screen is a bit distracting. Thought a cpl would have sorted that ?
 
LeeRatters said:
Not without ruining the main part of the whole screen ;) Like I said, without a tripod [to blend images] I just had to pick the best setting for it.
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Should be pretty easy to remove in photoshop? It doesn’t bother me though, I think it looks more natural with some reflection (y)
 
LeeRatters said:
A few ore from that early Sunday of parking on the footpath..... ;)

Regret not taking the tripod really as although it would have taken longer, I had to do the best I could with the CPL in a single shot.


*** by Lee, on Flickr


*** by Lee, on Flickr
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Nice spot that,

The car top left in the first image distracts me.
 
f/2.8 said:
Nice spot that,

The car top left in the first image distracts me.
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I didn't see it when I was looking on the phone but now on the computer it is a little distracting. Easy to clone that out though (y)
 
An image recorded with great grandpappy R1, the beast which started the Sony high end line of still cameras...

Hillman Minx R1_05222.JPG
 
Another from the R1 - a quiet drink by the Grand Union Canal at Long Buckby...

Couple outside the New Inn Long Buckby Wharf R1_02834.JPG
 
jonneymendoza said:
Looking forward to seeing what the A1 mk2 brings.
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Whilst nothing’s confirmed yet I don’t think it’ll take much working out based on Sony’s history, the A9III and the rumours.

Likely specs:

Same 50mp sensor
Same body as A9III
Vari-angle screen
Pre-capture
Latest AF with latest AI subject recognition
Probably still 30fps.
Improved IBIS (8stops)
CFexpress Type 4.0 compatibility
Probably some video specs I know nothing about ;)
 
Finally got a version of a photo I've been trying to make for ages, but with my "worst" lens (a cheap Minolta 24-85)! This water tower is fairly near me, and I like how in the mornings the sunrise brings the square shape of the building into sharp contrast with the side in sun and shadow visible from the same direction, sometimes it combines nicely with the warm light on the bricks and the blue sky, and yesterday's sky was decent. I do maybe need a sky with a bit more blue in it though.

https://flic.kr/p/2quSqL5

I did correct the perspective a bit in post (still a bit off though), which had me back thinking about picking up a tilt-shift adapter for all my Nikkor lenses again... plus I have a V->F adapter, so kinda like the idea of trying some shift-and-stitch with a Hasselblad lens.

That could be the start of a slippery and expensive slope into digital MF though... :eek:
 
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Another R1 shot from the files: a very friendly puppy in Mayrhofen, Austria.

Friendly puppy Mayerhofen Austria R1_00885.jpgThe light was going but the R1 coped with it surprisingly well...
 
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