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

Thanks, will try more in af-c then, noticed I have missed a few in low light so maybe that’s due to af-s then
 
Received the AR7III today and I have to say my first impressions have left me a little disappointed.

  • The only way to engaged the electronic shutter is to select silent mode (but I want to enable sounds)
  • Even shooting the mechanical shutter I can see the distortion when shooting fast moving objects, such as a fan (forced situation I accept)
  • The viewfinder blackout is really annoying, especial at high frame rates. I didn't realised how much I loved this on the A9
Might be a knee jerk reaction because I love the A9 so much, we'll see.
 
JohnBradbury said:
Received the AR7III today and I have to say my first impressions have left me a little disappointed.

  • The only way to engaged the electronic shutter is to select silent mode (but I want to enable sounds)
  • Even shooting the mechanical shutter I can see the distortion when shooting fast moving objects, such as a fan (forced situation I accept)
  • The viewfinder blackout is really annoying, especial at high frame rates. I didn't realised how much I loved this on the A9
Might be a knee jerk reaction because I love the A9 so much, we'll see.
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On point 2 have you turned off EFCS also?
 
JohnBradbury said:
Received the AR7III today and I have to say my first impressions have left me a little disappointed.

  • The only way to engaged the electronic shutter is to select silent mode (but I want to enable sounds)
  • Even shooting the mechanical shutter I can see the distortion when shooting fast moving objects, such as a fan (forced situation I accept)
  • The viewfinder blackout is really annoying, especial at high frame rates. I didn't realised how much I loved this on the A9
Might be a knee jerk reaction because I love the A9 so much, we'll see.
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Look at the extra £2500 in your pocket.

Then smile :p
 
JohnBradbury said:
Received the AR7III today and I have to say my first impressions have left me a little disappointed.

  • The only way to engaged the electronic shutter is to select silent mode (but I want to enable sounds)
  • Even shooting the mechanical shutter I can see the distortion when shooting fast moving objects, such as a fan (forced situation I accept)
  • The viewfinder blackout is really annoying, especial at high frame rates. I didn't realised how much I loved this on the A9
Might be a knee jerk reaction because I love the A9 so much, we'll see.
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I’ve just done a burst of 20 frames on mine and the only black out was a brief millisecond after the first frame. 1/500th H+
 
JohnBradbury said:
Received the AR7III today and I have to say my first impressions have left me a little disappointed.

  • The only way to engaged the electronic shutter is to select silent mode (but I want to enable sounds)
  • Even shooting the mechanical shutter I can see the distortion when shooting fast moving objects, such as a fan (forced situation I accept)
  • The viewfinder blackout is really annoying, especial at high frame rates. I didn't realised how much I loved this on the A9
Might be a knee jerk reaction because I love the A9 so much, we'll see.
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No EVF blackout is epic, it is literally the single main feature that has me thinking about selling all my other gear and going Sony.
 
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footman said:
I’ve just done a burst of 20 frames on mine and the only black out was a brief millisecond after the first frame. 1/500th H+
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Not on mine, it's an epileptics worst nightmare.. almost strobe like.
 
twist said:
Last time I spent all day testing and posting I recall nobody believed a mirrorless lens could front or back focus or micro adjust focus soooooo...... Nope.
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Lol, when I bought my Zeiss 35 you asked me for the same thing!
 
twist said:
Last time I spent all day testing and posting I recall nobody believed a mirrorless lens could front or back focus or micro adjust focus soooooo...... Nope.
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a properly developed mirrorless lens shouldn't. If it does then it's a design flaw or a defect. That's all I said.
I believe someone in this thread sent back their FE85 because it was front focussing and it was replaced since it was seen as a defect.
 
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nandbytes said:
a properly developed mirrorless lens shouldn't. If it does then it's a design flaw or a defect. That's all I said.
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Ill let you know but i won't be testing for hours and doing comparisons anymore. 5 min job.(y)
 
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Raymond Lin said:
The problem of filming it is like filming LED and see flicker when your eyes can’t see it, so we can’t be 100% that’s real life.
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I can assure you thats exactly how it looks in real life. Which I'm guessing isn't normal?

Here is another video side by side with my A9.

 
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F/1.4 said:
Ive used it on 4 weddings since I got it. Performs so much better than the samyang. Extremely happy with it
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I guess you are literally putting your money where your mouth is :D

But the real question is how close it is to Sony Zeiss rather than how much better it is than samyang ;)
 
jj_glos said:
From the weekend, A9 and Sigma 50mm:


Prescott Midsummer Speed Festival 2018 by JJ, on Flickr


Prescott Midsummer Speed Festival 2018 by JJ, on Flickr


Prescott Midsummer Speed Festival 2018 by JJ, on Flickr


Prescott Midsummer Speed Festival 2018 by JJ, on Flickr


Prescott Midsummer Speed Festival 2018 by JJ, on Flickr
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Lovely set, brought back memories of going to Prescott with my late wife in the mid-seventies. I've still got the prints somewhere I took with my Asahi Pentax, I must dig them out.
 
footman said:
I'm astonished to see this. Can you post your settings and I'll see if I can replicate this effect on my A7R3?
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Ermmmm that looks like normal behavior to me, its the shutter black out. You can switch it to 8 fps which kind of reduces it but its nothing like the Sony A9's blackout free output. :)
 
Riz_Guru said:
Ermmmm that looks like normal behavior to me, its the shutter black out. You can switch it to 8 fps which kind of reduces it but its nothing like the Sony A9's blackout free output. :)
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You're quite correct. I was making the error of looking for that effect when using my normal shutter setting of H+, at any other setting it's terrible. Apologies.

Edit: Just quickly checked my Olympus E-M1 Mkii and it's present in exactly the same way, just never used those shutter settings before.
 
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nandbytes said:
I guess you are literally putting your money where your mouth is :D

But the real question is how close it is to Sony Zeiss rather than how much better it is than samyang ;)
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No idea about the Zeiss. Terrible QC put me totally off it along with the ridiculous price for average performance
 
A9 v3.0 firmware pulled: "It was confirmed that some products that updated to Ver.3.00 may not operate properly in some cases.
Distribution will be suspended until we can inform you of modified version."
 
Yup it's bugged.glad I diddnt Rush and update
jj_glos said:
A9 v3.0 firmware pulled: "It was confirmed that some products that updated to Ver.3.00 may not operate properly in some cases.
Distribution will be suspended until we can inform you of modified version."
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jj_glos said:
A9 v3.0 firmware pulled: "It was confirmed that some products that updated to Ver.3.00 may not operate properly in some cases.
Distribution will be suspended until we can inform you of modified version."
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Knew they'd pull it.
 
I've been off this thread for a while - but I had an issue with my Samyang 35/1.4 FE and i've been offered a refund or an exchange.

Question is - should I take an exchange or should I use this opportunity to move to a different 35? What's the opinion on the Sigma 35? Is it available yet..?
 
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I have discovered a potential problem with Sigma FE lenses on the Sony if you want to put it on a Gimbal. due to the nature of the length of the lenses, a lot of them won't balance on a gimbal even if the payload supports it. The centre of gravity is too far front heavy meaning the camera or the lens will knock it against something.

I tried the Sony A73 with the 35 Distagon on a Feiyu A1000 this week and it barely balances, the mounting plate is so far back it was holding on with barely like 2mm of grip and the eye cup catches the back motor if you tilts to look up. I can't see how the Sigma will work with that gimbal at all, or any of the sigma lenses to be honest.
 
Sony a7iii Samyang 35mm 1.4 at 1.4,

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Raymond Lin said:
I have discovered a potential problem with Sigma FE lenses on the Sony if you want to put it on a Gimbal. due to the nature of the length of the lenses, a lot of them won't balance on a gimbal even if the payload supports it. The centre of gravity is too far front heavy meaning the camera or the lens will knock it against something.

I tried the Sony A73 with the 35 Distagon on a Feiyu A1000 this week and it barely balances, the mounting plate is so far back it was holding on with barely like 2mm of grip and the eye cup catches the back motor if you tilts to look up. I can't see how the Sigma will work with that gimbal at all, or any of the sigma lenses to be honest.
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I balanced the 35 very easily on the Crane 2 !
 
F/1.4 said:
I balanced the 35 very easily on the Crane 2 !
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I've not tried the crane to, this is the Feyiu A1000, has a payload of 1.7kg, gimbal itself weighs about 1kg and is very compact, thought it would be the perfect gimbal but just not meant to be.
 
Raymond Lin said:
I think I know why the water is lights up like that, something to do with a certain creature right?
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Yeah it’s a bioluminescenct plankton, was a pretty busy spot, mainly enjoyed watching it rather photographing, was pretty busy and hard to get a shot with out people. Unsure if the shallow dof works or not, aim was to help blur the slashes from the rocks a bit more
 
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