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

little update:

late last night i got the 85mm working. hadn't done anything different but connecting and disconnecting. eventually it worked and worked very well. hugely impressed by the focus speed.
following on from that the tamron started to work also! although the focus speed was appalling over 150mm.
i went out today and unfortunately the tamron went back to not offering any auto focus.
the tamron will have to be sent back.

i now have to decide whether or not to try the tamron in A mount and buy the la-ea 3 adapter. apparently this combo works..Anyone tested this??
the sony mount of this lens is quite expensive though compared to nikon and canon, which is annoying.

my other option is to give up with this idea of having a long lens with the e mount. perhaps get a nikon and the tamron -but didn't really want to run 2 systems and don't need the expense of buying another camera.
 
owenb said:
glad its sort of working............... whats the highest mm you need?
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Well I previously had a d810 and the Tamron 150-600. Loved those and the cropability allowance was nice.
I know the Tamron is a little soft at 600mm but I had a lot of joy with it and for the money, found it to be really versatile and loads of fun.

Both of these were at the "soft end" with a little cropping.
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I know a friend wHo shoots birds in his a7r ii I will contact him and find out what lens he uses
 
addicknchips said:
Thanks @owenb
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Did you reset and re-initialize add, I,ll presume so ? I had to do this to my DADs A7II as it would take a good shot at all all Blurred.

I also had a fun time with some of his old DX 15 year old film Glass, with the fotofiox pro I got them all working I even had a 2x TC on at one point with 600mm of goodness.

What impressed me the most was the cheap 70-300 canon USM III lens he had, with the metabones it worked , soft at 300mm but enough for me to have a bit of fun with so I snapped a brand new one up off Fleabay for 80. Till I can save up for the 70-200 G lens
 
haven't got the lens but relying on a person I know who does "if you don't already own the lens don't bother for the sony" apparently af is v v slow
 
I'm giving serious thoughts to selling my 2.8 canon 70-200 and replacing it with the sony 70-200 f4 ............... anyone use the 70-200 sony?
 
owenb said:
haven't got the lens but relying on a person I know who does "if you don't already own the lens don't bother for the sony" apparently af is v v slow
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Owen what did you mean its slow, the Canon is or the Sony Macro is slow ? get him to elaborate slow for me.

I think the Canon is fully Manual..

owenb said:
I'm giving serious thoughts to selling my 2.8 canon 70-200 and replacing it with the sony 70-200 f4 ............... anyone use the 70-200 sony?
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is the canon slow with Metabones ?, if your doing sport id go with the sony its what im saving for every cockhair of speed is needed :)
 
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I haven't got experience with the 60mm macro he just said to me that unless you own the lens already he would buy the sony one ( although someone more qualified within the macro world will know a lot more)


nope the 70-200 2.8 works well but and it is quite a big but is the weight on the sony................
 
owenb said:
I'm giving serious thoughts to selling my 2.8 canon 70-200 and replacing it with the sony 70-200 f4 ............... anyone use the 70-200 sony?
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I own one but Have only used it a few times. Very nice. Weighs nothing!
 
thanks Owen, that 65mm Macro is kinda the defacto macro and the best out, it was one thing canon did right and is only available from them, weve looked at the sony unit 90mm but its like other Macros so nothing doff, the 65mm is special in the way it works....

Guy at the local club uses it and did a lecture on it, very unique
 
don't get me wrong canon does the job and is a stop better however I don't really use it on the 6d or 5dsr as it is heavy and with the sony I saw the 70-200 f4 and it looks spot on iq wise and obv the canon makes the sony body very front heavy............ I think ill bang the canon on the classifieds later and put the extra to the sony one :-)
 
lol I just done a google search on the canon 65mm on a sony a7 and people are saying it is awesome perhaps I got confused with the 100mm macro ooops sorry lol
 
try WEX partX also for your lens, you may be surprised at the offer they make you
 
owenb said:
don't get me wrong canon does the job and is a stop better however I don't really use it on the 6d or 5dsr as it is heavy and with the sony I saw the 70-200 f4 and it looks spot on iq wise and obv the canon makes the sony body very front heavy............ I think ill bang the canon on the classifieds later and put the extra to the sony one :)
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Sounds a good idea.
 
owenb said:
I'm giving serious thoughts to selling my 2.8 canon 70-200 and replacing it with the sony 70-200 f4 ............... anyone use the 70-200 sony?
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I have the Sony 70-200mm f4 G OSS lens and its fantastic... I bought it when it was £1200 and I thought back then it was worth the price, it is since come down to around the £900 mark.
I shot the Cleethorpes Air Show with it, works a treat. :)
Its sharp, relatively lightweight and small in size and the AF is quick, zero complains really.
 
I have a few hours off a week on Tuesday... what's the chances there'll be compete cloud cover and dull flat light... it might even rain.
 
owenb said:
atm quite high :-(
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Last time I had time to get out by myself I nearly didn't bother taking any picture. People in a thread on here said there's no such thing as bad light but when every free day happens to be a complete cloud cover dead light day the novelty wears off and playing with angles and camera to subject distance and composition still doesn't get any keepers.

I'd love a good light day with no pressure and nothing to do but get out by myself with a camera.

Anyway, New Camera Coming???

http://www.sonyalpharumors.com/sr4-...sor-and-a-third-new-mirrorless/#disqus_thread

Personally if we must have cameras rather than lenses I'd like to see either an entry level or a higher end model. I wonder what'll come...
 
woof woof said:
Last time I had time to get out by myself I nearly didn't bother taking any picture. People in a thread on here said there's no such thing as bad light but when every free day happens to be a complete cloud cover dead light day the novelty wears off and playing with angles and camera to subject distance and composition still doesn't get any keepers.

I'd love a good light day with no pressure and nothing to do but get out by myself with a camera.

Anyway, New Camera Coming???

http://www.sonyalpharumors.com/sr4-...sor-and-a-third-new-mirrorless/#disqus_thread

Personally if we must have cameras rather than lenses I'd like to see either an entry level or a higher end model. I wonder what'll come...
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Another new high-end camera... noooo.... I have already pulled the trigger on new body. :(
 
addicknchips said:
Cheers Pete.



I did enjoy it, Rizvan. Had the 16-35 on the a7 and 85mm on the a7rii.
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Is the A7RII a giant leap over the original A7? Any niggles? :)
What kind of Mac/PC spec are you using to edit the giant RAW files?
 
i have the a7ii and the a7r ii and a x99 pc the raws are roughly 50 to 75mb lol massive
 
Rizvan said:
Is the A7RII a giant leap over the original A7? Any niggles? :)
What kind of Mac/PC spec are you using to edit the giant RAW files?
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Haven't shot an awful lot outside on the a7rii but took a shot on Saturday that I'm very pleased with. The dynamic range is wonderful.
I thought the silent shooting mode was a bit of a gimmick, but it's actually quite useful.
The spec of the camera in such a small body is quite remarkable - I don't know how anyone can hate on it.
The Nikon d810 was may favourite camera - the a7rii doesn't match the focus speed (imo) but seems up there with everything else.
If you have gone and bought one I'm sure you are going to love it.

My d819 broke my old pc pretty much, so I went and bought an i7 Mac book pro. 24gb of ram. Handles the raw files with ease in Lightroom. It does eat through the hard drive in terms of memory though.
 
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