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

Raymond Lin said:
I think the A7III will hit the wall after 40 shots too, but will clear it in about 15s with a fast card or 25s with a UHS-1 card.
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True, actually even at 5 fps the A9 probably won’t hit the buffer.
So yes perhaps the A9 would work with speed lights but at 5 fps vs 10fps. :)
 
addicknchips said:
They probably were not aware. Silent shutter
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Maybe but with a 35mm must be close.

I've had abuse just carrying a camera, once got accused of taking someones picture when I was standing under a tree with the camera pointing up and taking pictures of the blossoms. Luckily my liberal use of Anglo Saxon usually smooths things over.
 
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woof woof said:
Maybe but with a 35mm must be close.

I've had abuse just carrying a camera, once got accused of taking someones picture when I was standing under a tree with the camera pointing up and taking pictures of the blossoms. Luckily my liberal use of Anglo Saxon usually smooths things over.
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Did she happen to be sitting up in the tree at the time?
 
woof woof said:
How was the 35mm f2.8 Dan?

Snappy enough?
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I need to give it more chance, as I misframed the 35mm a bit and ended up locking focus on backgrounds because subjects had not entered the frame - so I think it's good so far, but I didn't do a good job personally :D
 
dancook said:
Random people in the street

my friendship circle isn't that big or diverse
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Well shoot from the hip great idea I’ll do that next time
 
woof woof said:
People in London must be used to being snapped, as I've said before doing that where I live wouldn't go well.
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Wouldn’t go down well where I am either tbh.
 
dancook said:
I need to give it more chance, as I misframed the 35mm a bit and ended up locking focus on backgrounds because subjects had not entered the frame - so I think it's good so far, but I didn't do a good job personally :D
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The lens is a bit slow on my A7 but if you find it ok I guess it's my A7 that's a bit slow rather than the lens.

One reason why I have mft is that it's quick so if the newer A7x bodies are fast I could think about having just one main camera, as well as a compact.
 
woof woof said:
The lens is a bit slow on my A7 but if you find it ok I guess it's my A7 that's a bit slow rather than the lens.

One reason why I have mft is that it's quick so if the newer A7x bodies are fast I could think about having just one main camera, as well as a compact.
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I actually got on better with the 24-70 - but I figured that was because I was checking my composition more...

It would be a shame if the focus movement of the lens was a touch on the slow side..
 
snerkler said:
Wouldn’t go down well where I am either tbh.
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I've never lived anywhere where street photography would be anything other than a little bit dangerous :D The only big city I've lived in was Leeds but it wasn't exactly a tourist destination :D
 
woof woof said:
I've never lived anywhere where street photography would be anything other than a little bit dangerous :D The only big city I've lived in was Leeds but it wasn't exactly a tourist destination :D
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Street photography can be slowed down a bit more, if you concentrate on compositions and take a photo when someone walks into the right spot.. you're not normally cared about.
 
T_J_G said:
So all those with A7RIII and A7III's what DON'T you like about it?

Still considering picking up an A7 classic ;) as a family camera...
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Can’t touch to focus.
Can’t swipe when viewing photos, in general touch screen is naff.
It takes about 1.5-2 seconds from cold boot before I can take a photo.
Menu is not logical.
It’s a touch too short.
Ahem, only UHS-1 in slot 2.
No flash sync port.
Doesn’t come with charger for a £2000 camera.
Official spare batteries are expensive.

A lot of these have a work around and are not dealbreakers.
 
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Raymond Lin said:
Can’t touch to focus.
Can’t swipe when viewing photos, in general touch screen is naff.
It takes about 1.5-2 seconds from cold boot before I can take a photo.
Menu is not logical.
It’s a touch too short.
Ahem, only UHS-1 in slot 2.
No flash sync port.
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Wonder if the a7riii or a9 as slow to start up
 
Raymond Lin said:
Can’t touch to focus.
Can’t swipe when viewing photos, in general touch screen is naff.
It takes about 1.5-2 seconds from cold boot before I can take a photo.
Menu is not logical.
It’s a touch too short.
Ahem, only UHS-1 in slot 2.
No flash sync port.
Doesn’t come with charger for a £2000 camera.
Official spare batteries are expensive.

A lot of these have a work around and are not dealbreakers.
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You can touch to focus
 
woof woof said:
I've never lived anywhere where street photography would be anything other than a little bit dangerous :D The only big city I've lived in was Leeds but it wasn't exactly a tourist destination :D
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I think you hit the nail on the head there, the only places I have done any street photography are London & Cambridge both popular tourist spots so people are used to having cameras pointing in their direction never had any problems, not yet anyway:rolleyes:.
 
old bloke said:
I think you hit the nail on the head there, the only places I have done any street photography are London & Cambridge both popular tourist spots so people are used to having cameras pointing in their direction never had any problems, not yet anyway:rolleyes:.
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Yea innit
 
T_J_G said:
So all those with A7RIII and A7III's what DON'T you like about it?

Still considering picking up an A7 classic ;) as a family camera...
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  • Still leaves a little to be desired in ergonomics, doesn't feel as natural/comfortable as my old camera (but now my old camera feels comically big).
  • The absence of a charger is just cheap and in reality a hidden cost or you're stuck with the stupidly designed socket covers breaking off.
  • Don't like the way it handles photo files on the memory card, I'm used to removing the memory card, moving the images off then reinserting the card but that causes the camera to still show the image but it can't because the file is missing, I even once had the card become unreadable and destroying all the photos before they'd been moved off, Plugging a USB cable directly into the camera and not had any problems since but then I have to live with those stupid socket covers blocking things and snapping off (it'll happen sooner or later).
  • The AF assist light seems to get cut off by any medium and above sized lens.
  • Doesn't work so well in studio, drop down to a small aperture and even with the live view effect off when you half press the shutter it'll get a grainy picture and have a terrible framerate (I'm hopeful this gets fixed in software as there's no good reason for that behaviour). Just feels like they haven't thought of this area while going out into sunny conditions it works beautifully.
  • Cost of Sony lenses and a lack of an established second hand market which makes them seem more expensive.
  • Menu system, it feels like it was designed by a bloke just out of uni.
  • They forgot to make use of the touch screen, again hopefully fixed later on but we'll all get by with custom menus/buttons until then.
  • This is probably my fault rather than the camera but so far it seems a lot easier to recover detail in underexposed areas compared to overexposed ones, at least more so than shots from my last camera.

If they just fix the small aperture with live view effect thing then I have zero regrets in switching.
 
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simonbarker said:
  • Still leaves a little to be desired in ergonomics, doesn't feel as natural/comfortable as my old camera (but now my old camera feels comically big).
  • The absence of a charger is just cheap and in reality a hidden cost or you're stuck with the stupidly designed socket covers breaking off.
  • Don't like the way it handles photo files on the memory card, I'm used to removing the memory card, moving the images off then reinserting the card but that causes the camera to still show the image but it can't because the file is missing, I even once had the card become unreadable and destroying all the photos before they'd been moved off, Plugging a USB cable directly into the camera and not had any problems since but then I have to live with those stupid socket covers blocking things and snapping off (it'll happen sooner or later).
  • The AF assist light seems to get cut off by any medium and above sized lens.
  • Doesn't work so well in studio, drop down to a small aperture and even with the live view effect off when you half press the shutter it'll get a grainy picture and have a terrible framerate (I'm hopeful this gets fixed in software as there's no good reason for that behaviour). Just feels like they haven't thought of this area while going out into sunny conditions it works beautifully.
  • Cost of Sony lenses and a lack of an established second hand market which makes them seem more expensive.
  • Menu system, it feels like it was designed by a bloke just out of uni.
  • They forgot to make use of the touch screen, again hopefully fixed later on but we'll all get by with custom menus/buttons until then.
  • This is probably my fault rather than the camera but so far it seems a lot easier to recover detail in underexposed areas compared to overexposed ones, at least more so than shots from my last camera.
If they just fix the small aperture with live view effect thing then I have zero regrets in switching.
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I have never plugged in my cameras to import photos.
 
Raymond Lin said:
I have never plugged in my cameras to import photos.
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So what's your process?

As I mentioned, I was accustomed to doing this:

Remove the card.
Move files off directly onto a PC.
Reinsert card into camera.
Done.

Doing that with the Sony means you have to take an extra step of manually deleting the images as it seems to index the files and with the thing corrupting once and losing the file system I don't want that happening again (don't think it was me, never had a problem in 3 years like that before with a Nikon).
 
simonbarker said:
So what's your process?

As I mentioned, I was accustomed to doing this:

Remove the card.
Move files off directly onto a PC.
Reinsert card into camera.
Done.

Doing that with the Sony means you have to take an extra step of manually deleting the images as it seems to index the files and with the thing corrupting once and losing the file system I don't want that happening again (don't think it was me, never had a problem in 3 years like that before with a Nikon).
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Put card in computer and press import in lightroom. Put card back in camera.

You always have to format the card after anyway, I don’t cut and paste...that’s dangerous.

In fact I don’t format the cards until the next job.
 
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woof woof said:
Maybe but with a 35mm must be close.

I've had abuse just carrying a camera, once got accused of taking someones picture when I was standing under a tree with the camera pointing up and taking pictures of the blossoms. Luckily my liberal use of Anglo Saxon usually smooths things over.
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You should try photographing whilst being bearded, brown and carrying a backpack then. That’s a whole other kettle of fish, trust me. :P
 
old bloke said:
I think you hit the nail on the head there, the only places I have done any street photography are London & Cambridge both popular tourist spots so people are used to having cameras pointing in their direction never had any problems, not yet anyway:rolleyes:.
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Unfortunately where I live if your staffy has four legs you're just visiting.

I haven't been to London for decades but if I ever go I might give it a shot :D
 
ohms12 said:
You should try photographing whilst being bearded, brown and carrying a backpack then. That’s a whole other kettle of fish, trust me. :p
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As long as you don't take pictures of the security cameras...

:D
 
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