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

snerkler said:
Rules sometimes can be ignored, but not with horizons in landscapes, especially when there's a large body of water in the scene (unless you've done it deliberately such as 45 degrees to look 'arty' ;)) In any case, in Jonney's pic nothing's straight, the fence posts and bench are leaning to the right too ;)
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Completely agreed. In an image like that, get your horizon straight 100% of the time.
 
jonneymendoza said:
Yea.dont you build 1.1 previews? helps a lot plus the new update increases performance
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I used to be able to start processing images whilst they were still importing before I used the external USB hdd, now it shows me 20 images and I have to wait ages before it shows the rest.

I will try a 500gb USB 3.0 SSD drive I have and see if that improves matters....
 
dancook said:
I used to be able to start processing images whilst they were still importing before I used the external USB hdd, now it shows me 20 images and I have to wait ages before it shows the rest.

I will try a 500gb USB 3.0 SSD drive I have and see if that improves matters....
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I can process whilst it's importing, but it's not as quick as when I've left it to build 1:1 previews. Not bad though which is good as I'm too impatient to wait for previews to finish building ;)
 
Riz_Guru said:
Ahhh I think these codes are linked to user accounts, tried Dan's and it didn't work.
They must activate it on their end for certain people who spend x amount of money at WEX etc.
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Yes they are account linked, I tried to use a code my wife had to order some stuff but it rejected it, rang up and they applied the code over the phone but only as we have same surname and address!!

They have just emailed me a £1000 off a GFX code.......
 
When's it arriving? :P
 
dancook said:
I used to be able to start processing images whilst they were still importing before I used the external USB hdd, now it shows me 20 images and I have to wait ages before it shows the rest.

I will try a 500gb USB 3.0 SSD drive I have and see if that improves matters....
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I don't think USB3 is as fast as having a SSD in your computer. Using USB is no go. period. Too slow and frustrating.

I have a 500GB SSD in my iMac, I import to hard drive for processing. They stay on hard drive till they are printed or exported. Then dumped in amazon cloud and deleted.
 
I have a MacBook Pro i5 2.4Ghz and 8GB RAM.
Main OS & LR Drive is a 480GB SSD
Secondary LR & Backup Drive is 1TB SSD
External LR & Backup Drive is a 1TB SSD
Also backing up to s 2TB iCloud.

Looking to buy a new 2015 MacBook Pro or iPad Pro.
 
nandbytes said:
I don't think USB3 is as fast as having a SSD in your computer. Using USB is no go. period. Too slow and frustrating.

I have a 500GB SSD in my iMac, I import to hard drive for processing. They stay on hard drive till they are printed or exported. Then dumped in amazon cloud and deleted.
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External SSD is freaking rapid via usb3. Usb is not slow.
 
nandbytes said:
Are the two SSD same spec? :thinking:
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No they aren't, running another internal SSD which is newer than the C: and it results are better

USB 3.0 can handle 640MBps, so pure speed isn't the issue - doesn't mean there can't be something else which impacts performance in certain scenarios.

My other, Sandisk Ultra II internal SSD performs better than the Crucial I have in C:

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Managed to pick this up today, £599 with kit lens[emoji106][emoji106][emoji106][emoji106][emoji106]

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Would it be a good idea to sell the kit lens and upgrade to the FE 24-70mm f4?
 
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saul01 said:
Would it be a good idea to get rid of the kit lens and upgrade to a FE 24-70mm f4?
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Perhaps wait for the tamron 28-75mm f2.8 lens and pricing before making this choice?
The rumour site said its price will be released tomorrow for pre-orders
 
saul01 said:
Would it be a good idea to sell the kit lens and upgrade to the FE 24-70mm f4?
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Try the kit lens and see what you think and decide if you'll use it :D

I bought one as I thought it'd come in handy but I haven't used it other than testing it to see if it was any good, and I think it is but I mostly use primes. I do think it's a good lens though for anyone looking for a standard range zoom. I've still got mine as if I sell it I'll no doubt decide I want it the next day.
 
saul01 said:
Would it be a good idea to sell the kit lens and upgrade to the FE 24-70mm f4?
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I haven't used the 24-70 f/4 but I'm told it performs like a decent kit lens. Which would be fine if it wasn't priced like an exceptional lens.

I'd personally stick with the kit lens for its convenience, wait for something new (like the aforementioned Tamron) or save up for the 24-105mm f/4.
 
Tom Green said:
Kit lens is ok but no better than that. So probably yes. Wouldn’t pay full price for the 24-70 either though. It was £599 at currys the other day, not sure about now.
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It's the best "kit" type lens I've ever used. It's compact, lightweight and plenty sharp enough. I think it's hard to fault it as a variable aperture standard zoom.
 
nandbytes said:
Perhaps wait for the tamron 28-75mm f2.8 lens and pricing before making this choice?
The rumour site said its price will be released tomorrow for pre-orders
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I looked on their website and didn't find any for the Sony, didn't know they had one being released.

Whats the rumour site? Sorry.
 
Tom Green said:
Kit lens is ok but no better than that. So probably yes. Wouldn’t pay full price for the 24-70 either though. It was £599 at currys the other day, not sure about now.
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Did see the lens but it's out of stock everywhere. That's where I managed to pick the camera up from as well.
 
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