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

JJ! said:
So here we have 2 sets of photos taken from the A9 and D750 @snerkler

Key differences having looked at the data is the A9 was shooting at 1/250 giving a lower ISO. I was meat to shoot at 1/250 after advise on here but went ahead at 1/500 as forgot!

Also A9 exposure was pushed up a bit. Something I didn’t do but should have done.

Also the A9 had the better light and position. I wished I had the D750 at 1/250 to really give a better comparison as think that would have made a big difference.

You can't really tell how bad the light was as both cameras do a good job of making it look lighter than it was!

So first up the A9:

Brendan A9 by Justin Akehurst, on Flickr

Brendan A9 by Justin Akehurst, on Flickr

D750:

Brendan D750 by Justin Akehurst, on Flickr

Brendan D750 by Justin Akehurst, on Flickr

The landscape shots are both iso4000. I’m not convinced the A9 is actually any cleaner, especially as the D750 image is already cropped.
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Still prefer yours, just have nicer rendering to my eyes. Your second needs an exposure boost though imo ;)

Riz_Guru said:
Yes, I think Sony are onto a real winner with this body....... can't fault the price either.
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I’m still waiting to see how it pans out tbh. Pin striping, spots at high ISO and aperture remaining stopped down are all pretty annoying flaws tbh, and that’s all that’s been discovered so far after a few days of release.

Riz_Guru said:
Well a EVF gives you accurate depth of field and exposure output, means less or no need for chimping..... hence saving time? :D
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If you understand your camera and how it meters you don’t really need to chimp tbh. When I’m doing sports there’s sometimes no time to chimp but 99% of the time the exposure’s fine. But if you get an ISO invariant camera you can get away with the odd wrong exposure anyway ;)
 
snerkler said:
If you understand your camera and how it meters you don’t really need to chimp tbh. When I’m doing sports there’s sometimes no time to chimp but 99% of the time the exposure’s fine. But if you get an ISO invariant camera you can get away with the odd wrong exposure anyway ;)
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Exactly. I think he used a shoebox as a camera before his sony.
 
nandbytes said:
I am yet to notice banding in my A7RII with silent shutter. I am not claiming it doesn't suffer from it but so far in my usage it's never showed up.

Then again I almost always use mechanical shutter and only use silent shutter as and when necessary.
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I think the lighting has to be just right or rather just wrong.

I've noticed that if the TV is on in a room it's more likely to happen.

My Panny GX80 seems to have some sort of flicker detection and can automatically switch to electronic or mechanical and luckily the mechanical shutter is quite quiet and no one would notice except in a completely silent room.
 
twist said:
Why would you want to store 800 shots for the sake of 1?
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My Lightroom catalogue is 336,000 images strong :D I rarely delete RAWs - I'm sure i have a bunch of raws that are just completely black from studio sessions where the flash didn't fire or something..
 
dancook said:
My Lightroom catalogue is 336,000 images strong :D I rarely delete RAWs - I'm sure i have a bunch of raws that are just completely black from studio sessions where the flash didn't fire or something..
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All my RAWs are stored on external drives, but only the good ones remain on the computer ;)
 
dancook said:
Sorry I took my time, I wanted to create a video...

Incredible Flying Dog by dancook1982, on Flickr

1 keeper was fine - zero would have been fine too - I at least to wanted learn something about my approach to how I photograph Yuffie running - e.g. i tried the expandable lock on this time instead of wide area.

If I had to shoot dogs all day, I of course would be a bit more sensible in how I shoot - I wouldn't last long at 20 fps the same way I've been photographing Yuffie (like in this video)

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osYvlxDK8dw


What I did learn is that I would automatically ignore/discard images where she did not fill the frame enough, so need to lay off the shutter in the earlier moments - it can be difficult though as the shutter is quite light and it's easy to take photos when you don't mean to, if not using BBF. (I did not mean to photograph Yuffie jumping at louise's legs)

So yes, 20fps is good for trying to get a good shot, but don't shoot her entire approach.... if I shot less FPS I'd give myself less chance to get a more interesting shot.

I'll be more prepared for when I take her to the beach for a better backdrop...
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I reckon you need to cull more because 56 minutes of that video is a static image ;)
 
dancook said:
My Lightroom catalogue is 336,000 images strong :D I rarely delete RAWs - I'm sure i have a bunch of raws that are just completely black from studio sessions where the flash didn't fire or something..
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I agree with Twist and think that's a bit ridiculous. If you know you've got scrap RAWs, why bother keeping them? Does it take too long to delete when you go through them all?
 
stevelmx5 said:
I agree with Twist and think that's a bit ridiculous. If you know you've got scrap RAWs, why bother keeping them? Does it take too long to delete when you go through them all?
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If it takes any time at all, then I really can't be bothered.

336k images is only 9TB
 
twist said:
May as well bin your external drives if you don't think the images are up to your own standards.
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stevelmx5 said:
I agree with Twist and think that's a bit ridiculous. If you know you've got scrap RAWs, why bother keeping them? Does it take too long to delete when you go through them all?
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Storage is cheap and it takes too much time selecting the ones you want to keep and the ones you want to throw away ;)
 
dancook said:
If it takes any time at all, then I really can't be bothered.

336k images is only 9TB
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Ok, how much of that 9Tb is wasted space that's just holding useless pixels? Again, none of my business, but you're not actually culling shots if you're just ignoring the waste.
 
stevelmx5 said:
Ok, how much of that 9Tb is wasted space that's just holding useless pixels? Again, none of my business, but you're not actually culling shots if you're just ignoring the waste.
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"Culling" - I don't remove bad ones until I'm left with the good ones sure, I pick out the best ones and put them into a new collection - then work from the collection.

Do we really need a new word for it?

Once I'm in a collection, I will do a second sweep and use the reject flag on those I'm not keeping to deliver to the client.

Then I will process..

So if i've take a selection of 1000 down to 100 images for delivery, and it's not called 'culling' - ok fine, I have a "selection process".

I use Lightroom filters to hide the discarded images.
 
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dancook said:
From my screenshot, I got my first real camera in 2011 - that was a Sony :D
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My first real camera was a Sony too, back in 2013 ;)
 
dancook said:
"Culling" - I don't remove bad ones until I'm left with the good ones sure, I pick out the best ones and put them into a new collection - then work from the collection.

Do we really need a new word for it?

Once I'm in a collection, I will do a second sweep and use the reject flag on those I'm not keeping to deliver to the client.

Then I will process..

So if i've take a selection of 1000 down to 100 images for delivery, and it's not called 'culling' - ok fine, I have a "selection process".

I use Lightroom filters to hide the discarded images.
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Going back to Twist's comments earlier about the arduous task of culling down from 1000's of images, hiding the failed images isn't culling, it's hiding :0) I realise that your financial world is a lot different to many other people, but hosting 9TB of mainly failed/unwanted images does seem pretty wasteful but each to their own.
 
I only keep the best shots, delete the rest.
Had a mass cull last year reducing around 15-16k images down to around 12k.
 
stevelmx5 said:
Going back to Twist's comments earlier about the arduous task of culling down from 1000's of images, hiding the failed images isn't culling, it's hiding :0) I realise that your financial world is a lot different to many other people, but hosting 9TB of mainly failed/unwanted images does seem pretty wasteful but each to their own.
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You should see the state of my "My Documents" folder..

Eventually I'll just make a copy of it and call it "Back of up of my Documents (5)" and store it elsewhere.

Biggest waste of space will be the EXE files for all the different software updates I've run

I'll usually only get rid of it when the hard drive it's on dies.

Fortunately the hoarding I do is all digital :)
 
stevelmx5 said:
Going back to Twist's comments earlier about the arduous task of culling down from 1000's of images, hiding the failed images isn't culling, it's hiding :0) I realise that your financial world is a lot different to many other people, but hosting 9TB of mainly failed/unwanted images does seem pretty wasteful but each to their own.
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What if you later go back to them and found a gem?

countless times i have found a gem that i missed out before
 
dancook said:
Doesn't have to be 20fps, I only use 20fps if I know something is going to happen which will benefit from it - which hasn't come up for people shots yet.... mostly shooting 5fps.

only used 20fps for birds/dog and pub testing :)

I'm shooting a rehearsal for a play I've never heard of, it's extremely chaotic - things happening all over the stage simultaneously. A girl is grabbed and pushed and she throws a bunch of plates into the air as she falls - the AF instantly locks onto her and I grab 5-10 shots and one of them is a winner.

There's a short chaotic scene of dancing all over the stage followed by them diving to the floor as a pair of 'police officers' enter view at the side... shutter burst gave me a great usable shot of them diving with the police in the background

Compositions and creativity were not compromised..
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You certainly have a full and varied life,makesmine sound positively f...ing boring :ROFLMAO:
 
dancook said:
it took me no more than 5 minutes to cull the 800 photos (all at 20fps) I took this afternoon.

I can mouse wheel scroll through them at a rate like fast forwarding through a video - is what actually mean.
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Dan this must be a bit different to shooting Leica
 
dancook said:
Yea I'm lazy with digital file management you should know by how I don't cull anything.



So much so.. Photography on steroids..it's been fun to up the pace
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If you have 300k shooting Leica over 6 years. With this new set up you are going to double that in 2018.
 
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