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

Doh! She's got me doing Ikea... a beer sounds good though. Gonna be hot again today.

It was lovely here and in the space of 10 minutes we've gone from blue skies to looking like we're going to get a thunder storm. I can't go out again today so I don't care about the weather and I'm hoping for a photogenic day on Monday.
 
On one hand, yes it is cool, but on the other hand, no it's not. A major feature of mirrorless for me is that you don't have to MFA lenses :(

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If this is the case glad I went with zeiss... MFA is one thing I don't miss. Samyang has got something very very wrong if you need to MFA it!!!
 
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If this is the case glad I went with zeiss... MFA is one thing I don't miss. Samyang has got something very very wrong if you need to MFA it!!!

I think we'll see this option from all 3rd party lens makers.
 
I doubt it... but we'll see
(They may release docks for fw updates but MFA shouldn't needed)

Yup, wait and see, side by side today, the Zeiss CAF EYE AF is definitely better, stickier and hit rate higher in High fps.

So IQ tested and now AF all done. Never spent so much time with testing 2 lenses.
 
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I doubt it... but we'll see
(They may release docks for fw updates but MFA shouldn't needed)
I'm pretty certain that the MFA that twist made on the lens doesn't factor into AF on a native e mount lens, 3rd party or otherwise

The focus reading is taken directly from the cameras sensor. There is nothing to calibrate in the lens as such. I believe the Samyang AF micro adjust feature in the software will be for the DSLR equivs that are launching now
 
I'm pretty certain that the MFA that twist made on the lens doesn't factor into AF on a native e mount lens, 3rd party or otherwise

The focus reading is taken directly from the cameras sensor. There is nothing to calibrate in the lens as such. I believe the Samyang AF micro adjust feature in the software will be for the DSLR equivs that are launching now

Wrong. It does. I tested multiple times and just did again.
 
Focus on birds head/eye..... I deliberately changed the lens from -3 to 0 via lens station.

 
Amazon.com will post the a7iii to the UK if anyone is interested. They add all the customs charges automatically so it comes in just over £1800 with the current exchange rate.
 
Amazon.com will post the a7iii to the UK if anyone is interested. They add all the customs charges automatically so it comes in just over £1800 with the current exchange rate.

... with no UK warranty. Check out Wilkinson Cameras.
 
Amazon is normally great at covering you if anything goes wrong. I had amazon UK cover a dodgy lens I bought this way.

Was that a warranty repair via the manufacturer or was it a distance selling regs replacement?
 
Samyang 35 1.4, you can't adjust Sony lenses.

Dude you're the only person I've ever heard that micro adjusted for e mount. Not a single review etc or anything mentions it

I definitely think it is there for DSLR
 
Dude you're the only person I've ever heard that micro adjusted for e mount. Not a single review etc or anything mentions it

I definitely think it is there for DSLR

Even after I just proved it.... on an a7iii.
 
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The lens station is for e mount lenses not dslr mount, it's advertised on the site that you can calibrate the focus.... I tested it multiple times and it wrote the value and saved it to the lens each time.

Seriously... why would I make it up.
 
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Is there a canon lens station?

But that still doesn't explain it. It allows you to write and confirms the change and the results speak for themselves.

Why do I need to lie?

I'm not saying you're lying pal. I've never once heard anyone anywhere micro adjust an e mount lens.

I can't find anything at all on the internet about it. The nature of on sensor af negates the need for microadjustment
 
I am just totally guessing here but may be this is because Samyang, like most 3rd party manufactures have to reverse engineer their product to fit, somewhere along the line, there is a bit of the information missing.

i.e. If for a Sony lens to focus with a Sony camera, there must be say….picking a number out of thin air here, say 10 elements that have to align for the camera to say "Yup, its now in focus". It's almost like NASA launch going. Fuel - Go ! Life Support - Go! Ignition Go ! etc etc etc.

Perhaps Samyang have figured out 9 out of the 10 things that the camera checking but not 1 or 2 things, minor things. In return, the lens will still work but it's still missing something, some code or some check that it doesn't talk to the body about.
 
Yeah but that's different to making a warranty claim. Amazon doesn't repair the camera.

Different, yes, but I'm happy with that. I've returned speakers to amazon that were out of warranty and received full refund.
 
I'm not saying you're lying pal. I've never once heard anyone anywhere micro adjust an e mount lens.

I can't find anything at all on the internet about it. The nature of on sensor af negates the need for microadjustment

I understand that it's odd but it works 100% and up until now you couldn't do it. I can post it to you and you can try it.
 
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I understand that it's odd but it works 100% and up until now you couldn't do it. I can post it to you and you can try it.

Very strange indeed. Just aswell I've only one Samyang and it's pretty good as is haha
 
Very strange indeed. Just aswell I've only one Samyang and it's pretty good as is haha

It' not like it's a bad thing. If you drop a lens it can go out, this may help fix it without returning.
 
I wouldn’t be stunned if Sigma allowed the same thing via a USB Dock when their native e mount lenses are available, especially as they’re basically a DSLR lens with an improved adapter connected - its probably the way that their own engineers will fix issues with them.
 
I wouldn’t be stunned if Sigma allowed the same thing via a USB Dock when their native e mount lenses are available, especially as they’re basically a DSLR lens with an improved adapter connected - its probably the way that their own engineers will fix issues with them.

That' what I'm thinking. The lens station also allows you to change the aperture opening.... weird.
 
I wouldn’t be stunned if Sigma allowed the same thing via a USB Dock when their native e mount lenses are available, especially as they’re basically a DSLR lens with an improved adapter connected - its probably the way that their own engineers will fix issues with them.

It shouldn't be needed is the point! If it is then the manufacturer is doing something very wrong!!!
 
It shouldn't be needed is the point! If it is then the manufacturer is doing something very wrong!!!

Maybe it would be good if Sony gave users those options, might help sort issues where lenses just get returned (for example the well known issues with the Distagon 35mm)
 
Guys, I’ll have a look at postage, not all that easy to send batts on their own, Hermes maybe?

Parcelforce and Royal Mail do actually allow lithium batteries but there's a variety of rules around it such as battery size/weight, if it's in a device or not, how many cells etc.

Hermes don't but they don't normally check either.
 
Maybe it would be good if Sony gave users those options, might help sort issues where lenses just get returned (for example the well known issues with the Distagon 35mm)

It makes conceptually no sense to have such an option! The whole point of mirrorless is you shouldn't need MFT because AF and image sensor are one and the same. You are asking for a redundant feature. Well know issue with 35mm is decentering has nothing to do with front/back focussing!
 
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