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

f/1.2 said:
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.
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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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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
 
f/1.2 said:
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.
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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.
 
woof woof said:
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.
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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.
 
addicknchips said:
F1.2 glass with high mega pixel bodies. Just saying
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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 :D 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.
 
snerkler said:
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.
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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 :D

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Shame about the building work.
 
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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:
 
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