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Another 50mm?

Coming soon: New Viltrox 50mm f/1.4 PRO lens | sonyalpharumors

After the launch of the impressive 35mm f/1.2 LAB lens Viltrox will soon announce the new 50mm f/1.4 FE PRO. Keep in mind that in late 2025 we should also get the 50mm f/1.2 LAB version. 35mm FE Preorders: Amazon USA (Click here), Pergear, Viltrox store, €1,099 at Amazon DE, Amazon FR, Amazon...
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I keep thinking that I'd like 35 and 50mm f1.4's but the price usually seems to be bulk and weight. It'll be interesting to see the reviews.
 
snerkler said:
What a car :love: Processing really suits it (y)
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Looks pretty, but unless it has air suspension so can increase it's clearance you'd have to be very careful to plan your routes in advance as it's not going to get past any 'traffic calming'!
 
Faldrax said:
Looks pretty, but unless it has air suspension so can increase it's clearance you'd have to be very careful to plan your routes in advance as it's not going to get past any 'traffic calming'!
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I'd imagine it's on hydraulic suspension :thinking: I always wanted hydraulic suspension for my car, I was obsessed with the bouncing low riders in the 90's rap videos :lol:
 
Our son used to do drifting and modifying cars to get the right stance. He'd frequently have to base his route choice around avoiding speed bumps etc, and ended up building a 1/4" steel plate for the sump of one car after having to replace the pan a couple of times.
 
ancient_mariner said:
Our son used to do drifting and modifying cars to get the right stance. He'd frequently have to base his route choice around avoiding speed bumps etc, and ended up building a 1/4" steel plate for the sump of one car after having to replace the pan a couple of times.
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I had the same in a Sprint/Hillclimb TVR, had a plate welded to the bottom of the sump and skid plates on the exhaust, with less than 3 inches of ground clearance on parts of the exhaust, acceleration on heavily cambered single track roads used to result in a shower of sparks

Speed humps were a nightmare (as was the MOT testers brake test rollers as it could result in beaching the car!!)
 
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ancient_mariner said:
Our son used to do drifting and modifying cars to get the right stance. He'd frequently have to base his route choice around avoiding speed bumps etc, and ended up building a 1/4" steel plate for the sump of one car after having to replace the pan a couple of times.
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Mr Perceptive said:
I had the same in a Sprint/Hillclimb TVR, had a plate welded to the bottom of the sump and skid plates on the exhaust, with less than 3 inches of ground clearance on parts of the exhaust, acceleration on heavily cambered single track roads used to result in a shower of sparks

Speed humps were a nightmare (as was the MOT testers brake test rollers as it could result in beaching the car!!)
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That does sound pretty much like the Escort :ROFLMAO:
 
Oh! Look Look Look! A dual bokeh 35mm T2.1 cini lens. If I was still buying lenses I might give this a look :D

Just announced: New TTArtisan 35mm T/2.1 Dual Bokeh Cine Lens | sonyalpharumors

TTartisan announced this dual bokeh Cine lens you can preorder at BHphoto, Amazon, TTartisan, FotoErhardt. Here is a review that explains what's so unique with this lens: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaAtSM9ndqg
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GreenNinja67 said:
Cue Alan's next post stating "purchased" :banana:
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Maybe not. I've decided that gear wise I'm pretty happy. The only things I'm lacking are an AF macro to replicate the 150mm I had for my Canon DSLR's and maybe a long lens zoom to replicate the 45-150 / 100-400mm I have for MFT but I can live without these and to be honest I'd only use them once a year anyway. Also I could be tempted to replace my 35 and 55mm f1.8's if something better came along and I could replace my 35mm f2.8 and 40mm f2.5 G if a lens came along which could replace both.

In the meantime I've been buying watches. I decided I'd like to wear a different watch every day for a week and then I stretched that to every day for two weeks and now I've exceeded that, by a bit :D So I might stop.
 
GreenNinja67 said:
Sounds like you need to "watch" your spending.

Oh, and the Oly 60mm macro is a belter.
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MFT? If so it wont be able to completely match the look of a 150mm f2.8 FF lens at wider apertures. I mainly used it for flower shots but since I sold my DSLR kit I haven't taken many flower shots. I used to take a lot. I hardly use my MFT kit now and I've been thinking of selling it all. It's the GX80 and 14mm f2.5 that mostly stops me as nothing in FF matches it for size, the only thing it lacks is some DR against FF. I also want to eventually take a moon shot I'm happy with so I hang on to the 100-400mm but as I haven't managed that yet I don't know if I ever will.

I take the GX80 when I want the smallest and lightest camera. Two recent ones from the past week I like.

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I printed this next one out for him and he snatched it out of my hands and is very happy with it. He kept crashing but still managed to get the top score and he got his photo on the top of the list.

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Mrs WW has gone from telling me we can spend spend spend to telling me we shouldn't be spending so much. We're constantly up when I do the banking so why cut back on anything? Apologies to those who are struggling, I know what it's like.

Make it three :D Colour on a drab day.

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Some from today. A7III and Sony 40mm f2.5. Two specific requests by Mrs WW and one of the sunlight on a stream.

With blossoms. The light wasn't great but it is what it is and according to the histogram it's not blown.

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With wild garlic.

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And finally, the sunlight on a stream.

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The rumor site thinks there's a FF blogging camera coming.

There is a new major Sony announcement coming soon! | sonyalpharumors

I got a 100% reliable confirmation that within a month Sony will have another mayor E-mount announcement. One could be related to this camera series but I have been old there is "one more thing" for all of us ;) Stay tuned! To not miss any new rumor subscribe our newsletter and social networks...
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T_J_G said:
Sony 85mm GMII incoming, finally binning off the Sigma 85
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If you’d be willing and have the time I’d be interested in some side by side comparisons with the same framing rather than taken from the same place (the Sony is wider) to see how bokeh compares please?
 
snerkler said:
If you’d be willing and have the time I’d be interested in some side by side comparisons with the same framing rather than taken from the same place (the Sony is wider) to see how bokeh compares please?
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Just buy one already :ROFLMAO: It’s what is going to happen anyway.

I’ll try but got a pretty busy schedule coming up over the next month.
 
T_J_G said:
Just buy one already :ROFLMAO: It’s what is going to happen anyway.

I’ll try but got a pretty busy schedule coming up over the next month.
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:lol:

No worries, please don't go out of your way, it's only for curiosity's sake, my photography spending is on hold for some time (y)
 
Only had the Sigma 85 1.4 with me, didn't end up getting the 35mm in time for my trip to Poland so first time trying with an 85.

Could be sharper and more foreground but when you're in Poland and there's not much around, best i can do with such a short time to plan anything.

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Just an update on my A7III and also GX80 woes.

The A7III was working fine until I spotted that if taking pictures over a number of days it put them in separate folders which wasn't what I wanted. I tried fiddling with the date and default settings for file saving (I may get the names wrong here as I haven't got the camera in front of me) and also the "mass storage" and alternative settings. Everything looked right and changing the settings to something else and back didn't fix it, tuning on and off and removing the battery didn't fix it and resetting the camera didn't. Annoyingly when I emailed Sony and very clearly told them the issue they said the camera was working within parameters. Hmmmm. Not IMHO.

After I last used the camera I changed the settings to the wrong ones, took the battery out and left it for a couple of days. I then reset the camera and then waded through the menus setting everything to normal and then... It Worked. So, the only thing I did differently was to leave the camera for an extended period with no battery. I can't say that the extra time with no battery did it (these things do also have an internal battery, AFAIK) as it could have been that after so many attempts to try and overwrite whatever was stuck the last attempt just finally worked. I have tried setting the date and storage options to something else and they appear to work too so it looks like whatever was stuck, either in the "standard" or "mass storage" menu sections is now unstuck. Phew.

My GX80 also had a wobble. I have three custom memory options using eye detect and various other things but when out the other day I noticed that eye detect wasn't working in C1. I switched to aperture priority, set eye detect and it worked fine, I then noticed that the two other custom modes were missing. I went into the menu and remade the three custom modes and everything then worked normally. It's quite an involved thing to delete a custom mode or two or to even alter them so I'm sure I didn't do it by accident. Oh well. So that's twice I've had strange glitches in a short period but it just reminded me that although these are cameras there is a big computer element to them.
 
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