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

jbw said:
Thanks for that - I wonder if it would be best to buy a small Sony flash ( or a Sony E fit Metz) and fit that to the camera shoe and use it to fire my Canon flash off camera but as a slave flash.
Any comment ?
James
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Better off just using a trigger then
 
jbw said:
Thanks for that - I wonder if it would be best to buy a small Sony flash ( or a Sony E fit Metz) and fit that to the camera shoe and use it to fire my Canon flash off camera but as a slave flash.
Any comment ?
James
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Cheapish triggers (Radiopopper Nano) work fine on my A7R. No TTL of course but I don't use it for OCF anyway.
 
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Wissel said:
Thanks Alan.

To be honest I think most prints will be within the 300ppi constraints of the A7ii anyway so I don't think it will be an issue. Besides, in the past when I've been shooting a landscape that I think I'll want large I've just stitched a few files together with no issues (no idea why I didn't think of this earlier). I think I've made my mind up to go with the A7ii. Thanks all.
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thats all fine and dandy till you get someone doing that with a phase one 80mp back xD
 
lots more to consider than just mp though lets be fair ;-)
 
Well today i sent my Em5II for PX and will be joining the club soon, with a new Spangly A7RII, i did struggle for my first Lens between the 24/70 16/35 and 55mm F1.8 but as i won't have anything else i went 24/70. I will compliment this with the 90mm macro then a Batis.
What i wanted to ask was on WEX in the UK i see a few Macros is there any cheap good ones that i should consider or is the 90mm the only real way to go ?

Thanks
Ted
 
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Well today i sent my Em5II for PX and will be joining the club soon, with a new Spangly A7RII, i did struggle for my first Lens between the 24/70 16/35 and 55mm F1.8 but as i won't have anything else i went 24/70. I will compliment this with the 90mm macro then a Batis.
What i wanted to ask was on WEX in the UK i see a few Macros is there any cheap good ones that i should consider or is the 90mm the only real way to go ?

Thanks
Ted
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With Macro you wont be using AF, so you could use pretty much any macro lens with an adapter and save a few hundred quid.
 
I've used 3 different legacy macro lenses on my NEX kit;

Olympus OM Zuiko 50/3.5
Kiron 105
Tamron 90

The Olympus was probably my favourite even though it's the shortest length with it's balance of tiny size versus magnification.
 
canon 100mm works good wouldn't buy it for the a7 exclusively though
 
Macro is usually manual focus so unless it's going to double up as a lens for other uses when AF would be needed maybe manual lenses are well worth a look?
 
ok thanks for that, so whats a good contender that first the A7RII or would i need some adaptor ?
 
Oops, wrong place. Anyone know how i delete a post made in error.
 
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Anyone shot any weddings yet on their sonys?
How did it go? What lenses etc were used?
 
Comments like the following make me wonder, is it prejudice or am I missing something?

http://theonlinephotographer.typepa.../01/top-camera-of-the-year-2015.html#comments

"Blarg. Am I the only one who finds the Sony cameras completely uninspiring? Weird handling, wacky sounding shutters and the overall feeling that you're completely plugged into a computer/disconnected from reality. I played around with the first iteration of these cameras and took a pass, then came back again to see if they could change my mind (because in theory they're perfect), and once again walked away cold. I really WANT these cameras to work for me, but it's not meant to be."

Is the poster out to knock Sony or CSC's in general or is this a genuine view and if so why the disconnect?

I've read similar posts several times on forums and sometimes references to Playstations are thrown in and I wonder if I'm missing something as to me the A7 or indeed any CSC I've used is no more a soulless computer than any DSLR I've owned. Funny how computers and Playstations get mentioned when Sony cameras are being discussed but I can't remember anyone linking Canon DSLR's to photocopiers.

If peaking, zebras and in view histograms are the cause and are too advanced and too phasing they can be turned off and to me the only real difference between a CSC and a DSLR apart from size and weight is the EVF. Maybe the problem is that electronic companies make CSC's and will be sneered at until a generation dies off and less prejudiced youngsters grow up and prevail?

I don't care who makes the gear, badges mean next to nothing to me. If Aunt Bessie started making camera gear I'd buy it if it was any good. :D
 
I can sort of see the appeal of the chunky DSLR's and I can see how some can prefer that although for me the smaller gear handles better :D

It's the comments about computers and disconnect that I just don't get and I think it's possibly subliminal resistance to the non traditional stuff and brands but how far do people want to go down this route... is a DSLR a disconnected computer compared to an old manual camera? Some would say it is.

Thinking about the Fuji's, I do like the idea of the separate and dedicated dials but that means fiddling with dials on the top plate whereas with my current cameras I don't. Swings and roundabouts I guess. Anyway, it's not the handling that puts me off the Fuji's and I can and would forgive a few handling issues or quirks for overall gains.
 
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But I'd rather take a a7 like body for traveling then a big dslr. Different tools for different purposes.
 
jonneymendoza said:
But I'd rather take a a7 like body for traveling then a big dslr. Different tools for different purposes.
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Yup. I've never been happy with the whole big fat DSLR and big fat lens thing. It's only in recent years that we've had camera and lens packages that are the size of 35mm film stuff although the modern kit is usually heavier.
 
wedding end of jan will be my first I know a lot of togs that use them for weddings tho I'm not phased at all will keep the 5ds in the bag as a backup tho if needed for the first time
 
I ditched all of the Fuji kit and Canon kit I had and went to Sony. The Fuji XT1 I found to be a pain in the arse, the switches for drive etc were constantly getting moved in error...
 
Nikon dslr's are lovely to hold and use. Moving to the a7 series took a lot of getting used to. However, you soon get used to it and there's no getting away from how taxing the weight of a d810 and lens can be after a full day shooting.
 
addicknchips said:
Nikon dslr's are lovely to hold and use. Moving to the a7 series took a lot of getting used to. However, you soon get used to it and there's no getting away from how taxing the weight of a d810 and lens can be after a full day shooting.
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I gotta say life is easier now than lugging a 1DX about with a 70-200 2.8 MK2 on
 
When I had Canon and Nikon SLR's I never wished they were 4 times the weight and two inches bigger in every direction. I thought they were too big. These days I think that the cameras I have verge on being too big but I am still happier than I was with DSLR's.

Main thing is that I don't get the disconnected computer view.
 
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owenb said:
wedding end of jan will be my first I know a lot of togs that use them for weddings tho I'm not phased at all will keep the 5ds in the bag as a backup tho if needed for the first time
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Will be interested in your report. Hope all goes well.
 
I cant envisage a problem to be honest all my tog mates rave about them and wil;l have the zeiss 55 and batis 85 by then also :-)
 
woof woof said:
Main thing is that I don't get the disconnected computer view.
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That is exactly how I felt with the a7 when I had it. I just didn't like shooting with it at all - the specs were all there, it was light, but basics just didn't work for me and output never lived up to the hype. To me it felt like Sony had crammed loads of tech into a small body but didn't make any effort to make it all fit together properly, like a camera should. Maybe this has changed with the a7II series.
 
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