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

Riz_Guru said:
Just found a Nikon D40 for sale with only 2099 shutter clicks! :eek: Mmmmmm
Shall I buy it :D
The Nikkor 18-70mm f3.5-4.5 was a good lens......

What do you think folks....... :D lol
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Er, no.

The D40 was, as far as I remember, even in its day well behind the cutting edge.

I'd expect it to be ok at lower ISO's but I think you'd be throwing it against a venue wall in lower light.

I tried one, briefly.
 
While we're going all nostalgic...

My first digital camera was a Fuji S602 pro zoom. It was ok for static posed stuff but horrendously frustrating for anything that was even likely to move and turning to manual everything wasn't a great deal better. After that I got a Canon 300D.
 
woof woof said:
Er, no.

The D40 was, as far as I remember, even in its day well behind the cutting edge.

I'd expect it to be ok at lower ISO's but I think you'd be throwing it against a venue wall in lower light.

I tried one, briefly.
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I am just looking at one for a bit of fun, plus I can then say I am a Nikon owner :D lol hahaha all about the brand eh ;)
 
If you have to be a Nikon owner why not go for something with a bit more class... a nice RF or manual camera?
 
SsSsSsSsSnake said:
agreed this em10ii with 45mm 1.8 is super fast
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With the faster lenses you don't need to "focus," just point the camera at the subject and press the shutter button and by the time your finger and the button has gone from "focus" to "shoot" the kit will have acquired focus.

It's difficult to see how a larger system could match this.
 
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woof woof said:
With the faster lenses you don't need to "focus," just point the camera at the subject and press the shutter button and by the time your finger and the button has gone from "focus" to "shoot" the kit will have acquired focus.

It's difficult to see how a larger system could match this.
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Focusing is a non-issue when using tiny sensors :D
 
nandbytes said:
I must be one the few odd people that like a properly loud mechanical shutter like in original A7 or A7R. Its very satisfying to say the least :D
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You want to hear my old A900 - stick that in 5FPS and the shutter + mirror noise make it clear you're 'machine gunning' :D
 
nandbytes said:
Focusing is a non-issue when using tiny sensors :D
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I don't think it's the tiny sensors as such as remember that MFT isn't all that small... you can still get shallow DoF and presumably the issues that come with that need to be addressed and focus will need to be suitably accurate. I think it's much more to do with not having much weight to move about.
 
Riz_Guru said:
I wonder what Sony bodies were used.... :D
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Maybe the point is that it doesn't matter?

Then again, reading the information about the shots I'm surprised some people haven't argued it's more of a Photoshop competition!

Travel Winner - "The picture was taken in the Lofoten Archipelago, in Norway, though Beiter has made a few changes. He said: "I've removed a small cabin in the left side during post process. Beside that, colour correction, contrast and sharpness has been done in Lightroom and Photoshop."

Still Life Winner - "Authentic to the scene depicted, this highly detailed image is constructed of over 100 individual photographs meticulously stitched together."

At least the "Enhanced Image Category" was honest - "Klaus Lenzen's Every Breath you Take, which won the Enhanced image category, was made from 35 individual photos of swimmers at the triathlon in the Dusseldorf Media Harbor in summer 2017."
 
@Raymond Lin
How are you getting along with the Sony A7 III, are you finding the 10 fps / SD slot / buffer limiting or is it working for you?
Now that you've experiences mirrorless goodies like a EVF, smaller body, Face and Eye-AF etc, do you see yourself ditching the Canon system?
Perhaps for a pair of Sony A9's like @dancook ?
 
Riz_Guru said:
@Raymond Lin
How are you getting along with the Sony A7 III, are you finding the 10 fps / SD slot / buffer limiting or is it working for you?
Now that you've experiences mirrorless goodies like a EVF, smaller body, Face and Eye-AF etc, do you see yourself ditching the Canon system?
Perhaps for a pair of Sony A9's like @dancook ?
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It’s been in my peli for the past 48hrs :p
 
Raymond Lin said:
It’s been in my peli for the past 48hrs :p
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That's nothing, my Sony A9 has been sat about for the last 8 months with minimal usage! :(
Will be great if you can keep us updated as I am genuinely interested to hear your thoughts, pains and plus points.
So many professionals have moved to Sony over the past year or so. :)
 
Riz_Guru said:
That's nothing, my Sony A9 has been sat about for the last 8 months with minimal usage! :(
Will be great if you can keep us updated as I am genuinely interested to hear your thoughts, pains and plus points.
So many professionals have moved to Sony over the past year or so. :)
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ive not and i'm a professional hairdresser :D
 
Riz_Guru said:
That's nothing, my Sony A9 has been sat about for the last 8 months with minimal usage! :(
Will be great if you can keep us updated as I am genuinely interested to hear your thoughts, pains and plus points.
So many professionals have moved to Sony over the past year or so. :)
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It’s not my intention to replace my Canon. It’s the intention as an addition, in natural light scenarios.

At the moment with one battery it won’t get through the morning so I need at least 2 more batteries first and foremost.

2nd, I need more SD cards.

3rd, I won’t know until I used it properly. By that I don’t mean shooting my coffee mug. There are things that’s hard to know until it happens. Like I’m not sure how well it’ll handle in low light, I’ve not tried it with my Canon flashes...not even sure if it will even fire them manually.

So my thoughts are TBC.
 
Riz_Guru said:
The winners of this year's Sony World Photography Awards Open competition have been revealed :)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-43472907
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Must admit that looking at the winners, and the number that had involved significant pp manipulation I was somewhat underwhelmed.

I liked the Landscape and Nature image (woodland scene from Bulgaria) and the Deer in Sequoia National Park, but most of the rest look a bit 'staged' for me.
 
Raymond Lin said:
3rd, I won’t know until I used it properly. By that I don’t mean shooting my coffee mug. There are things that’s hard to know until it happens. Like I’m not sure how well it’ll handle in low light, I’ve not tried it with my Canon flashes...not even sure if it will even fire them manually.
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Seems to work fine with a 580EX II.
 
woof woof said:
While we're going all nostalgic...

My first digital camera was a Fuji S602 pro zoom. It was ok for static posed stuff but horrendously frustrating for anything that was even likely to move and turning to manual everything wasn't a great deal better. After that I got a Canon 300D.
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That was my first digital camera too. :) I thought it was great camera for the time. Dual card slots, and 1/10000th sec shutter too in 2002. :eek: I was quite sad when it got stolen. :( It is amazing how small the rear LCD was in comparison to what we have now. Same with the Nikon D70 that replaced it, tiny LCD. :LOL:
 
Faldrax said:
Must admit that looking at the winners, and the number that had involved significant pp manipulation I was somewhat underwhelmed.

I liked the Landscape and Nature image (woodland scene from Bulgaria) and the Deer in Sequoia National Park, but most of the rest look a bit 'staged' for me.
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Yea i dont like staged photos. Really detest them as photography for me is about taking a snap of the past. But when you manipulate them it becomes fake in my book.

I don't mind the odd editing of white balance levels. Shadows. Contrast and colour etc etc but manipulate of say adding people that where not in the scene or even telling your mate to pretend he is a stranger and having him walk right on a decisive moment in a scene is cheating
 
jonneymendoza said:
Yea i dont like staged photos. Really detest them as photography for me is about taking a snap of the past. But when you manipulate them it becomes fake in my book.

I don't mind the odd editing of white balance levels. Shadows. Contrast and colour etc etc but manipulate of say adding people that where not in the scene or even telling your mate to pretend he is a stranger and having him walk right on a decisive moment in a scene is cheating
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I agree.

I can see that combined images such as the swimmers have a place as 'art', but stitching 100 images to get a shot that you could, arguable, take with 1???

I'm actually OK with the idea of having someone directed to walk on as required, as you do need to visualise the scene with them in it - but if you're going to do that, the end result needs to be a strong image with the person as part of that - IE they 'complete' the image, rather than it simply being an image of them where they just happen to be in that spot.
If you have a good eye, and a bit of luck, you can get that with a stranger who happens to be in the right place at the right time, but you need to have the scene and visualise the person in place (a bit like taking a landscape, and waiting for the sun / moon to be in the 'right' place for the shot - it's fine to use an app to work out when to be there, without having to camp in the spot for a month in the hope that everything lines up eventually)
 
I took tend to do very little post-processing, minor exposure adjustments etc and sometimes the odd crop. :)
Hence why I considering going down the iPad Pro - Affinity Photo only route and move away from the MacBook Pro :)
 
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