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

jonneymendoza said:
Wagwan, im planning a big photo walk between june/july and wanna know which day's you can do. Plenty of notice! Hope you can come https://doodle.com/poll/56datka7t28cf5d6 check that link and add the dates you can do. They all skip vital World Cup footy games so we wont miss anything vital!
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Why not head north and walk on the beach or in the hills for 4 or 5 hours?
 
Wilkinson Cameras say they have stock of the A7 III (via online chat). Still says pre order but I've ordered one this afternoon and they assure me that they have stock and it will be dispatched tomorrow!
 
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jonneymendoza said:
Maybe autumn's photo walk but how far north?
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I live in Cleveland (was Teesside.) When I can I spend a day walking on the beach or the Cleveland hills but sadly Mrs Woof Woof can't keep up.

One thing which might interest some is it's Goth weekend at Whitby next weekend. I probably wont go as it'll be packed but for those of you into street it might be fun.

Here's the Goths in 2017...

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/gallery/2017/oct/30/whitby-goth-weekend-in-pictures

I prefer the beach between Redcar and Saltburn to Whitby.
 
twist said:
CZ50, nice!
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The CA in this lens is impressive, or lack of.

There is a hint but just barely noticeable

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woof woof said:
I live in Cleveland (was Teesside.) When I can I spend a day walking on the beach or the Cleveland hills but sadly Mrs Woof Woof can't keep up.

One thing which might interest some is it's Goth weekend at Whitby next weekend. I probably wont go as it'll be packed but for those of you into street it might be fun.

Here's the Goths in 2017...

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/gallery/2017/oct/30/whitby-goth-weekend-in-pictures

I prefer the beach between Redcar and Saltburn to Whitby.
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I am planning to do one in Lake District actually. Possibly next year.

It would be a 2/3 day one and involving accommodation
 
Hi everyone, been lurking here a while reading up whilst awaiting delivery of my A7III which came today! So far, very pleased with it from the few test shots I've done around the house of my wife and daughter. However, I'm having a hard time to get the Eye AF set-up properly even after watching some You Tube videos on it. I've set-up the AEL button to be for Eye AF and I've put the focus mode in AF-Continuous but still it's a big rectangle that's more face-sized than eye sized that is tracking focus. What am I doing wrong? It's been a bit hit and miss with locking focus on the nearest eye so far (more hit than miss to be fair) but thinking there must be one detail lacking to have it track eyes and not faces.

Related to that, how do you all quickly switch back to another focus method if you change from portraits to landscapes etc, and what focus method are you using for these?

Just trying to adjust as been with Nikon about 9 years and not really ventured away from them so much until now.
 
michaelg said:
Hi everyone, been lurking here a while reading up whilst awaiting delivery of my A7III which came today! So far, very pleased with it from the few test shots I've done around the house of my wife and daughter. However, I'm having a hard time to get the Eye AF set-up properly even after watching some You Tube videos on it. I've set-up the AEL button to be for Eye AF and I've put the focus mode in AF-Continuous but still it's a big rectangle that's more face-sized than eye sized that is tracking focus. What am I doing wrong? It's been a bit hit and miss with locking focus on the nearest eye so far (more hit than miss to be fair) but thinking there must be one detail lacking to have it track eyes and not faces.

Related to that, how do you all quickly switch back to another focus method if you change from portraits to landscapes etc, and what focus method are you using for these?

Just trying to adjust as been with Nikon about 9 years and not really ventured away from them so much until now.
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Silly question, but are you holding down the button that you’ve assigned to eye af?
 
addicknchips said:
Silly question, but are you holding down the button that you’ve assigned to eye af?
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Do you hold that down or the AF-ON? The last video I watched suggested you hold down the AF-ON but I have a feeling that might be for an older model or something. Lenses are great BTW, thanks again!
 
michaelg said:
Do you hold that down or the AF-ON? The last video I watched suggested you hold down the AF-ON but I have a feeling that might be for an older model or something. Lenses are great BTW, thanks again!
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If memory serves, whichever button you have assigned to eye af you would need to hold it down for it to maintain continuous eye af. Although this may have changed in the newer bodies. Hopefully you can get it sorted as it’s a really good feature.
 
michaelg said:
Do you hold that down or the AF-ON? The last video I watched suggested you hold down the AF-ON but I have a feeling that might be for an older model or something. Lenses are great BTW, thanks again!
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Holding down AF ON is like half press the shutter, I assign AEL to eye af and leave AF ON as it is. This way I can use AF ON to track a larger object and AEL to find the eye. For each you need to hold it down with your thumb and then press the shutter.
 
addicknchips said:
If memory serves, whichever button you have assigned to eye af you would need to hold it down for it to maintain continuous eye af. Although this may have changed in the newer bodies. Hopefully you can get it sorted as it’s a really good feature.
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Yup, holding down AEL did the trick. For some reason I thought you just turned it on and of with a single press instead of holding it down. Makes much more sense now!
 
Juts reading through the what we don't likes in the DPR review the follow struck me as being rather stupid (the sharpness comment) unfair (rolling shutter / FF / f2.8 zooms because they're mostly like that no matter who makes them / the fully tilting screen because that's very rare,) or idiotic (too many features? really? If the features weren't available wouldn't they whinge even more.)

Here they are...
  • With a sharp lens, the results can be so sharp as to be unflattering
  • Silent shutter could have rolling shutter artifacts
  • Tilting screen doesn't tilt all the way around for selfies
  • Zoom lenses for FE are almost universally large and / or expensive
  • Sony F2.8 zooms are very big and very heavy, negating compact size of camera
  • Sheer volume of features and options can be overwhelming or overkill for some users
I know they have to say something negative but I do think that some points are just extreme nit picking or simply stupid. If they're going to use these things to criticise the A7III I do hope we'll see the same complaints about future Canikons :D

Rant over.

While I'm here, a picture of some trees...

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woof woof said:
Juts reading through the what we don't likes in the DPR review the follow struck me as being rather stupid (the sharpness comment) unfair (rolling shutter / FF / f2.8 zooms because they're mostly like that no matter who makes them / the fully tilting screen because that's very rare,) or idiotic (too many features? really? If the features weren't available wouldn't they whinge even more.)

Here they are...
  • With a sharp lens, the results can be so sharp as to be unflattering
  • Silent shutter could have rolling shutter artifacts
  • Tilting screen doesn't tilt all the way around for selfies
  • Zoom lenses for FE are almost universally large and / or expensive
  • Sony F2.8 zooms are very big and very heavy, negating compact size of camera
  • Sheer volume of features and options can be overwhelming or overkill for some users
I know they have to say something negative but I do think that some points are just extreme nit picking or simply stupid. If they're going to use these things to criticise the A7III I do hope we'll see the same complaints about future Canikons :D

Rant over.
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I have to agree to some extent that they seem very poor negatives when people should already know about these prior to buying it. :)
Hey its increases the word count in their review :D
 
Riz_Guru said:
I have to agree to some extent that they seem very poor negatives when people should already know about these prior to buying it. :)
Hey its increases the word count in their review :D
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The sharpness and multitude of features comments were IMO particularly idiotic.
 
woof woof said:
Juts reading through the what we don't likes in the DPR review the follow struck me as being rather stupid (the sharpness comment) unfair (rolling shutter / FF / f2.8 zooms because they're mostly like that no matter who makes them / the fully tilting screen because that's very rare,) or idiotic (too many features? really? If the features weren't available wouldn't they whinge even more.)
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I agree for the most part.

woof woof said:
Tilting screen doesn't tilt all the way around for selfies
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I don't like the tilt screen implementation on the Sony, a fully articulating screen is convenient and I really wish Sony would just do it right. Don't get me wrong, I'll take a bad implementation rather than no implementation but it feels silly to have such a versatile device and they miss out something we've had for decades on crappy cheap camcorders.

woof woof said:
Sony F2.8 zooms are very big and very heavy, negating compact size of camera
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This too is stupid, if you want fast convenient glass then this is one of the prices but I would like to have more lightweight options as for some uses I want the best performance and others I'd rather have convenience. Canon gets criticism for this with their EF-M lenses but I can see some merit there.

woof woof said:
Sheer volume of features and options can be overwhelming or overkill for some users
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This is fairly stupid but I kinda understand, it's like complaints about the menu system. Yes it's terrible but so is almost every camera I've used, hunting through pages for a feature is always going to be a poor user experience, if it matters you put it on a custom menu and then you don't need to waste time delving.
 
simonbarker said:
I agree for the most part.
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I don't use my kit to anywhere near it's limits and I don't use most of the new features but I do accept that some do and I'm happy to therefore turn the stuff I don't want off or just ignore it. I'm just amazed that a credible review site lists a multitude of features and options as a negative. Ditto the other stuff but what FF camera has a fully articulating screen and what f2.8 zoom isn't a big fat expensive lump... actually if there is one it'll probably fix one of their whinges, it wont lead to unflatteringly sharp portraits :D

Anyway I've calmed down now.
 
Too sharp? No flipping screen for selfie? Too many options? Wide constantly aperture professional lenses too big for their little arms?


This sounds like a deliberate ploy to stop narcissistic idiots who plan to take selfies with it. In this instance I think they should stick to their iPhones with their beautifying filters. Simple 1 button shoot, can see yourself on the screen with a lens their arms can hold at the end of a selfie stick.


Good job by Sony, sounds perfect to me.


On a serious note, I am sick of people moaning about the size of lenses. Show me a small FF frame auto focus lens with an wide aperture that is smaller than a variable aperture zoom and I’ll show you a flying pig. Even if they can make the flange distance shorter you will lose that gap between the mount at the grip. Just go look at your A7 and imagine if the lens is mounted to the body without the last inch of the mount and tell me where you will put your fingers. So what are you going to do then? Make it a bigger wider body? Then the idiots will moan about mirrorless cameras don’t have a smaller body.

Before they go “oh, Leica’s 50/0.95 lens is tiny”. Sure, did you forget it is manual focus, it is like £10,000 and the Leica body has no grip, it’s flat!

Wide aperture lenses are too big, shock horror…somebody call CNN because this is breaking news.

/sarcastic mode
 
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