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

woof woof said:
Like it or not I think it's electronics that'll drive photography forward, Sony have realised that and can you really prefer how Canon have acted? Year after year of new product with outdated technology from day one and minor almost to the point of being irrelevant "development." :D
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Which is easy to say now but come back in 5-10 years time when their mirrorless designs have matured even further and they can't easily make big improvements on a regular schedule.

To clarify, I firmly believe in technology always improving but that doesn't mean a single company can always keep up with them.
 
simonbarker said:
Which is easy to say now but come back in 5-10 years time when their mirrorless designs have matured even further and they can't easily make big improvements on a regular schedule.

To clarify, I firmly believe in technology always improving but that doesn't mean a single company can always keep up with them.
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If that's the case and Sony do a Canon and introduce product with seemingly little innovation or improvement I'll gladly talk about whatever Chinese company is driving the thing forward at that time because I don't give a flying who makes the kit. What I will not be doing is apologising for talking about something new and innovative.

I might not be buying it though :D
 
woof woof said:
Like it or not I think it's electronics that'll drive photography forward, Sony have realised that and can you really prefer how Canon have acted? Year after year of new product with outdated technology from day one and minor almost to the point of being irrelevant "development." :D
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I love my new DVD player :LOL:
 
twist said:
I love my new DVD player :LOL:
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I used to fix Canon office equipment including photocopiers, some people thought the copiers were sh!t and at the time we were under orders to keep certain things from customers. Unsurprisingly I had a heated technical and moral discussion with management and thankfully I managed to walk out of that job PDQ, actually about a nano second before they sacked me.
 
woof woof said:
I used to fix Canon office equipment including photocopiers, some people thought the copiers were sh!t and at the time we were under orders to keep certain things from customers. Unsurprisingly I had a heated technical and moral discussion with management and thankfully I managed to walk out of that job PDQ, actually about a nano second before they sacked me.
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we use konica minolta printers are work. They are pretty good.
 
nandbytes said:
we use konica minolta printers are work. They are pretty good.
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One problem with Canon copiers at the time was that they weren't edge to edge copiers, for technical reasons they left a blank bit at the leading edge and down one side of the paper. This was all a big secret but of course if anyone asked why text was missing from their document I answered honestly. The work around was to reduce the image size so that it fit within the available area. The last straw was when I was told to tell a customer that his machine was a write off when all it needed was an hour spent cleaning it and a replacement 20p cleaning blade. I wouldn't lie to individual customers but I had no problem working for rip off merchants like Systime Computers as they never asked me to do anything dodgy. Anyway, I only did office equipment for a few months and Canon copiers may be different now as that was a long time ago. Actually it wasn't just their copiers, all their office stuff at the time was crap. I'm very happy not to work for a living now :D

Bags, cars, watches and now photocopiers... is there anything we can't talk about in this thread...
 
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Bah, saved up enough for a 35/1.4 CZ but my car need some TLC, minimum some brake pads, may need some new calipers.
 
Raymond Lin said:
Bah, saved up enough for a 35/1.4 CZ but my car need some TLC, minimum some brake pads, may need some new calipers.
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New calipers, I doubt that. Disks and pads at most. Easy DIY maybe £100-200 parts. Try national tyres, good rates.
 
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You’d know if it were the calipers - I’ve had one seize on me before, it’s sort of a ‘always on or always off’ kinda thing, if it is.

What’s the issue with your brakes, out of curiosity? And what car? :)
 
ohms12 said:
You’d know if it were the calipers - I’ve had one seize on me before, it’s sort of a ‘always on or always off’ kinda thing, if it is.

What’s the issue with your brakes, out of curiosity? And what car? :)
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2 things really

1 - it squeaks when under braking but only at medium level of pressure. And it doesn't squeaks when on cold start, it will after its warmed up a little.
2 - around 40mph sometimes it has a weird whistling noise coming from the front. It will disappear if i tap the brakes even lightly, then it may come back, it may not.

It's a Volvo C30.
 
Good luck with the car Raymond, hope it's not too expensive and as importantly, hope it gets sorted.
 
Have a friend that switched to the A7RIII and he sent me this and said he was frustrated with the not so smooth gradation in the sky. Can anyone explain why it looks so severe? Is it just the camera screen making it look bad ?
 

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F/1.4 said:
Have a friend that switched to the A7RIII and he sent me this and said he was frustrated with the not so smooth gradation in the sky. Can anyone explain why it looks so severe? Is it just the camera screen making it look bad ?
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I'd imagine that's just the screen, I'm sure it looked fine when imported onto the computer?
 
F/1.4 said:
That's exactly what I said to him. He's done a fair aul bit of complaining since the change. Feel like telling him to stfu and go back to Canon lmao
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Good idea. Surely it’s the file that counts.
 
F/1.4 said:
Have a friend that switched to the A7RIII and he sent me this and said he was frustrated with the not so smooth gradation in the sky. Can anyone explain why it looks so severe? Is it just the camera screen making it look bad ?
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That looks like the sort of thing you get after shooting a high contrast scene or even if boosting everything post capture and viewing a JPEG. I've seen this with my own pictures especially when posting them (lower quality and smaller) on line but full quality JPEG's and especially Tiffs should look good and it shouldn't appear in prints, unless something has gone drastically wrong. Whatever, I'd expect a Sony A7x to be more capable than a Canon DSLR once he figures out what he's doing.
 
Update: Any ideas what's going on?
 

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The first picture with my new old lens :D a present from my family :D another 35mm f2.8 :D A Minolta Rokkor MC to replace the one which despite looking fine to me was mysteriously found to have damaged coatings whilst with a company in Scotland that I will not be using again.

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We're off out now so I'll get to play with it some more :D

I doubt I'll be using old lenses so much now that I have the Voigtlander 35 and 40mm lenses but I'll still use them now and again when I want a different focal length or when I want the different look they can give :D
 
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F/1.4 said:
Have a friend that switched to the A7RIII and he sent me this and said he was frustrated with the not so smooth gradation in the sky. Can anyone explain why it looks so severe? Is it just the camera screen making it look bad ?
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Looks like the screen. It's something that tends to happen on older lcd TV's that have a poor contrast ratio. I bet it will be fine on a proper monitor, a decent phone screen or a print.
 
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