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

Fortunately I don't care much for A9. I'd like something more like D850, high megapixel, high dynamic range with good AF and ok-ish frame rate. It be nice if the frame rate increases when shot in crop mode.

But I'd like the touch screen and/or joystick from A9.
 
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nandbytes said:
Fortunately I don't care much for A9. I'd like something more like D850, high megapixel, high dynamic range with good AF and ok-ish frame rate. It be nice if the frame rate increases when shot in crop mode.

But I'd like the touch screen and/or joystick from A9.
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I'm warming to the idea of a joystick.

I tend to move the focus point for most of my pictures.
 
stevelmx5 said:
Isn't the Sony a mind-blowing 299MB/s Transfer speed?
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Yup, the Sandisk write speed is 260MB/s. :D
Going to use the Sony G cards for RAW and the Sandisk's for JPEG.
Hopefully there aren't any issues running two different brand SD cards in each slot.
 
Riz_Guru said:
Yup, the Sandisk write speed is 260MB/s. :D
Going to use the Sony G cards for RAW and the Sandisk's for JPEG.
Hopefully there aren't any issues running two different brand SD cards in each slot.
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It will be interesting to see if you find any real difference in performance. I guess the extra 40MB/s may account for the larger size raw files. Are you finding the write speed of the Sandisks a problem?
 
stevelmx5 said:
It will be interesting to see if you find any real difference in performance. I guess the extra 40MB/s may account for the larger size raw files. Are you finding the write speed of the Sandisks a problem?
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Not finding anything wrong with the Sandisk SD cards to be honest, just fancied the fastest possible cards on the A9. :D Sony GAS. ;)
 
Riz_Guru said:
Not finding anything wrong with the Sandisk SD cards to be honest, just fancied the fastest possible cards on the A9. :D Sony GAS. ;)
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[emoji23] Only you would spend £200 on a faster SD card when your current SD cards aren't slow and you're not having any issues with write speed. I wish I had a quarter of the money you waste on GAS!
 
stevelmx5 said:
[emoji23] Only you would spend £200 on a faster SD card when your current SD cards aren't slow and you're not having any issues with write speed. I wish I had a quarter of the money you waste on GAS!
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I paid £115 for the Sony SD cards, still not cheap but nothing is when it comes to Sony lol :D
 
nandbytes said:
Fortunately I don't care much for A9. I'd like something more like D850, high megapixel, high dynamic range with good AF and ok-ish frame rate. It be nice if the frame rate increases when shot in crop mode.

But I'd like the touch screen and/or joystick from A9.
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A7R2 may be good for you if you ignore the buffer and no joystick. Half the price of the d850 as well
 
jonneymendoza said:
D850 only 650 quid cheaper then. To those who say d850 is more cheaper than the a9
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To some people... like me :D DSLR's are now an irrelevance. I'll read the review if I have nothing to do but the chances of me buying a DSLR are now zero.
 
woof woof said:
To some people... like me :D DSLR's are now an irrelevance. I'll read the review if I have nothing to do but the chances of me buying a DSLR are now zero.
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I am of the same thinking abut do admire Nikon as a company / brand..... the D850 is a great camera from reading and watching the various previews and a step in the right direction for Nikon.
 
My first good camera was a Nikon SLR but that was decades ago, certainly more than 20 years ago.

Anyway. Time and tide move on :D

One from yesterday, my A7 and cheap old Rokkor 55mm :D Maybe wide open but if not near so...

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100%.

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You can see her fingerprints :D That's not too bad for a cheap old lens :D
 
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jonneymendoza said:
Thought it was less than 2k
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Nope, its still £2499 from most places..... Sony has done incredibly well to keep their prices at a certain price point.
I remember buying mine pre-brexit for £2000 each.
 
Riz_Guru said:
Nope, its still £2499 from most places..... Sony has done incredibly well to keep their prices at a certain price point.
I remember buying mine pre-brexit for £2000 each.
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I remember paying 1 bag of peanuts pre price rise for all my old kit. Gits.
 
jonneymendoza said:
A7R2 may be good for you if you ignore the buffer and no joystick. Half the price of the d850 as well
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I managed to bump into the buffer issue for the first time last night after shooting a sequence of 9 raw shots trying to capture a lightning burst. It took quite a while (probably about a minute) to write them to the card. Granted my battery had been showing exhausted for about an hour, I made the rookie mistake of not putting a spare in my pocket, as a I'd only swapped them out halfway through the previous day!
 
ChrisHeathcote said:
I managed to bump into the buffer issue for the first time last night after shooting a sequence of 9 raw shots trying to capture a lightning burst. It took quite a while (probably about a minute) to write them to the card. Granted my battery had been showing exhausted for about an hour, I made the rookie mistake of not putting a spare in my pocket, as a I'd only swapped them out halfway through the previous day!
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9 RAWs = crap memory... not camera.
 
ChrisHeathcote said:
I was using Sandisk Ultra Class 10 U3 card 95mb/s, what would the recommendations be?
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The Sony A7RII runs an internal USB 2.0 Data Bus so having faster SD card's won't help clear the buffer any faster, are you shooting compressed RAW? If not I would try that to see if you can squeeze a little more speed out of the buffer.
 
nandbytes said:
Fortunately I don't care much for A9. I'd like something more like D850, high megapixel, high dynamic range with good AF and ok-ish frame rate. It be nice if the frame rate increases when shot in crop mode.

But I'd like the touch screen and/or joystick from A9.
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If the touchscreen and joystick are anything like the D5, it'll be good. I'm no Nikon fanboy and I gave them stick when deserved but for a first attempt at touchscreen, Nikon did really well. Touchscreen isn't something I ever lusted after. Once I had it on the D5 and D500, I surprised myself and really liked it. It's still not a must for me but it's moved onto the "Very nice feature to have " list.

Still really happy I swapped to Sony. No regrets and I'm sure there's going to be lots of equally happy D850 owners. Off to Cambridge this weekend to get to know my A9 better.
 
Jesus Quintana said:
If the touchscreen and joystick are anything like the D5, it'll be good. I'm no Nikon fanboy and I gave them stick when deserved but for a first attempt at touchscreen, Nikon did really well. Touchscreen isn't something I ever lusted after. Once I had it on the D5 and D500, I surprised myself and really liked it. It's still not a must for me but it's moved onto the "Very nice feature to have " list.
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I've found the D500 touchscreen implementation quite limited. :rolleyes:
 
Riz_Guru said:
The Sony A7RII runs an internal USB 2.0 Data Bus so having faster SD card's won't help clear the buffer any faster, are you shooting compressed RAW? If not I would try that to see if you can squeeze a little more speed out of the buffer.
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Thanks for that I was running uncompressed so that could have something to do with it.
 
redhed17 said:
I've found the D500 touchscreen implementation quite limited. :rolleyes:
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To be fair the Sony A9 touch functions are rather limited also, Sony should have given it....

Full touch GUI and Menu selections
Multi-touch pinch to zoom for image reviewing
 
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