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

footman said:
Absolutely, you'd need to have a speed of 1/250th or even less to effectively blur rotor blades which of course makes everything else in the frame that's moving blurred.
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The blur just gives an image more life and I'm not sure anything else in Jonney image would be adversely affected by a slower speed?
 
twist said:
I really like blurring static subjects, makes everything look better and everyone feel drunk.
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That's a style that makes some people look more attractive too and of course some of the most famous photographs are not exactly razor sharp across the frame. Take a look at some of these in this little article...

http://pindelski.org/Photography/2018/07/03/hcb-early-years/

"There are no rules. No generalizations." I'd extend that to most if not all aspects of photography.
 
stevelmx5 said:
The blur just gives an image more life and I'm not sure anything else in Jonney image would be adversely affected by a slower speed?
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There's the blokes hanging from it, I wasn't there so I don't know what shutter speed would have frozen them but blurred the blades. Maybe Jonney will explain his choice or maybe there's no answer other than "that's the picture I (he) wanted" :D
 
footman said:
Possibly but the swinging crew members would be blurred.
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As above, it's Jonney's image and I'm just giving my thoughts. Even at 1/250th I think the crew would be frozen. I've just done a quick Flickr search and found a few examples but again, it's not my image so I don't know what Jonney was aiming for.
 
footman said:
Possibly but the swinging crew members would be blurred.
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Yup.

If there I think I might have shot a series of shots stepping through the shutter speeds and picked the one that worked best. If there was time to do that.
 
woof woof said:
That's a style that makes some people look more attractive too and of course some of the most famous photographs are not exactly razor sharp across the frame. Take a look at some of these in this little article...

http://pindelski.org/Photography/2018/07/03/hcb-early-years/

"There are no rules. No generalizations." I'd extend that to most if not all aspects of photography.
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Can you see how he uses a slow shutter speed to indicate movement (moving subject) and make the image more interesting?
 
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twist said:
How would that change anything? It is a mighty fine camera though :p you should get it.
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My point was (as I'm sure you know) that a picture doesn't necessarily have to be sharp, blurred, in focus, correctly exposed or anything else, and an extra point is that sometimes it maybe does :D Plus kit sometimes matters to get the effect you want and one thing HCB didn't have was fast responsive kit and if he'd had it he'd maybe have produced different pictures.

PS.
The picture that got me hooked on photography was one I took when I was 10 of my sister stroking a horse. The sun was behind them and they came out as pretty much just silhouettes and as the camera was fixed focus and they were pretty close they were a bit OOF too and I thought WoW a camera is not just for accurately capturing a picture of what's there, you can make a different picture too.

But I digress.

I like Jonney's shot.
:D
 
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woof woof said:
My point was (as I'm sure you know) that a picture doesn't necessarily have to be sharp, blurred, in focus, correctly exposed or anything else, and an extra point is that sometimes it maybe does :D Plus kit sometimes matters to get the effect you want and one thing HCB didn't have was fast responsive kit and if he'd had it he'd maybe have produced different pictures.

PS.
The picture that got me hooked on photography was one I took when I was 10 of my sister stroking a horse. The sun was behind them and they came out as pretty much just silhouettes and as the camera was fixed focus and they were pretty close they were a bit OOF too and I thought WoW a camera is not just for accurately capturing a picture of what's there, you can make a different picture too.

But I digress.

I like Jonney's shot.
:D
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I like his shot, I just think if a slower shutter speed was considered it could've been much better. He could've gotten prop blur and frozen rope guys at 1/250 or even slower no problem.
 
Ever see this? The camera shutter speed synced with the helicopter's blades:


It's odd looking, as our brain expects to see movement/blurring of the blades [there is some movement, just slightly] Pretty cool.


I tend to agree that I'd prefer personally to see some blurred movement, but it's up to the shooter, it's still a cool image.
 
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addicknchips said:
tbh i quite liked the samyang 35mm f1.4. its very good and reasonably priced.
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It is and was on offer from SRS for £449 very briefly last week.
But I bought my previous Zeiss for £850 admittedly in better cosmetic condition than this one and it sold for over £1K on eBay.
Zeiss is easiest to sell of the lot for no loss IMO.
 
nandbytes said:
It is and was on offer from SRS for £449 very briefly last week.
But I bought my previous Zeiss for £850 admittedly in better cosmetic condition than this one and it sold for over £1K on eBay.
Zeiss is easiest to sell of the lot for no loss IMO.
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Yeah agree, very rarely see the zeiss go cheap. Your price is attractive but putting my sensible hat on I don’t think I can justify the extra.
 
addicknchips said:
Yeah agree, very rarely see the zeiss go cheap. Your price is attractive but putting my sensible hat on I don’t think I can justify the extra.
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its not really extra since you eventually you'll get your money back unlike a new samyang or sigma. That's why I haven't yet bought the sigma ART. Its a loss to buy it for me since I don't keep my lenses very long.
(Also with samyang you need to factor in cost of buying the dock for FW update)
 
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nandbytes said:
its not really extra since you eventually you'll get your money back unlike a new samyang or sigma. That's why I haven't yet bought the sigma ART. Its a loss to buy it for me since I don't keep my lenses very long.
(Also with samyang you need to factor in cost of buying the dock for FW update)
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Why don’t you keep them...?
 
Perhaps already known about, but I thought I'd mention it: This ebook on the A7RIII is actually pretty darned good. I'm not one for reading manuals/books on cameras usually as I like to think I'm a technically (if not artistically) savvy photographer and I'm an Electronics Systems Engineer by profession and a man (who needs manuals?). However, the Sony has so much capability that it's quite handy to have a little more in the way of use cases for some of the more obscure but clever features. I'm only part way through this (it's huge) but am impressed at the level of detail and reasonably light slightly humourous writing style.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Friedman-A...044&sr=8-1&keywords=friedman+archives+a7r+iii
 
ohms12 said:
Why don’t you keep them...?
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change in priorities, use cases, subjects I shoot or I get bored and sometimes just for the hell of it (like I did with my previous version of FE35/1.4)

I am bit like @addicknchips in this regard expect I don't change systems as often as he does :D
 
Simes123 said:
Perhaps already known about, but I thought I'd mention it: This ebook on the A7RIII is actually pretty darned good. I'm not one for reading manuals/books on cameras usually as I like to think I'm a technically (if not artistically) savvy photographer and I'm an Electronics Systems Engineer by profession and a man (who needs manuals?). However, the Sony has so much capability that it's quite handy to have a little more in the way of use cases for some of the more obscure but clever features. I'm only part way through this (it's huge) but am impressed at the level of detail and reasonably light slightly humourous writing style.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Friedman-A...044&sr=8-1&keywords=friedman+archives+a7r+iii
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He's been writing guides for Sony cameras since the early A Mount Sony's, I always recommend them.

You can get them direct as well

http://www.friedmanarchives.com/ebooks/index.htm#Sony_Books
 
nandbytes said:
I think I am.
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I got mine for well under 900, you got both yours for less than 900 and I've seen them elsewhere for less than 900. Both times you looked you bought for under 900, how can you say both times you looked you never saw them for less than 900, that makes no sense!
 
Simes123 said:
I did see that, but liked the Amazon price better!
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The direct sale has the advantage of a range of formats, in case you don't have a Kindle (I use the pdf version personally), but if Kindle is what you want to red it on, then I'd agree, the Amazon route is preferable.
 
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