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

nandbytes said:
Wedding albums is the only reason I don't do weddings lol. I don't have the time and patience to prepare one and deliver it customised to someone's requirements. Seems like a lot of work and faff. If you can make it work with only digital I may join you :D
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I think you’re missing a trick. They’re not too bad and some places can offer the design aspect too. Worth looking into as it can add valuable extra to your income.
 
I did our own album on the Jessops site. I was quite impressed with it when it came. I can see how someone doing weddings for a living could think it was a faff though.
 
9 batteries for me, don't think I've got through more than 5 in a full wedding 11 hour day though, and that's with a bit of a safety barrier of changing out at 20% or so. I find a battery good for 600 shots fairly comfortably (a7RII), up to 1000 if shooting motorsport where there is more consistent and constant shooting.

At single venue weddings you could easily charge through the day too, in fact that can be kinda crucial if shooting two days back to back.
 
I like them and there's certainly a sense of speed but you could argue that in a couple the cars are a little blurred and in the first picture if one car was sharp and the other blurred (I assume they're going at different speeds as there seems to be differing blur between the two) it'd be an even better picture.
 
quality thanks! Yes its difficult to get cars pin sharp when adding blur/movement. i saw someone who does panning shots of f1 cars and none of them are pin sharp yet his composition is amazing and got me thinking that sense of speed is important then pin sharp cars
 
jonneymendoza said:
Damn must have overheated and throttled hard when viewing Dan's amazing shots. Your laptop can't take greatness displayed on that screen
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Well we all know your perception of sharpness :p

Joking aside TP has always played up for me. I went through a period where it would oversharpen all my images hosted from Flickr, now it softens them slightly, as it has with Dan’s. Viewed on Dan’s site they’re fine, which is why I know it’s a TP/browder setting issue (y)

jonneymendoza said:
quality thanks! Yes its difficult to get cars pin sharp when adding blur/movement. i saw someone who does panning shots of f1 cars and none of them are pin sharp yet his composition is amazing and got me thinking that sense of speed is important then pin sharp cars
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1/45 is a tough ask with F1, although that being said Ive seen some cracking shots at 1/25 and 1/15 (of course focal length will also play a part). I agree slow shutter shots don’t need to be, and are very very rarely pin sharp, but there’s a difference between blurry and not quite being pin sharp (y)
 
jonneymendoza said:
quality thanks! Yes its difficult to get cars pin sharp when adding blur/movement. i saw someone who does panning shots of f1 cars and none of them are pin sharp yet his composition is amazing and got me thinking that sense of speed is important then pin sharp cars
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Yup. I think so.
 
jonneymendoza said:
got me thinking that sense of speed is important then pin sharp cars
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Can't you do more of both like #4! ;)

Panning does take a lot of practice, and also experimenting with shutter speeds to see the best combination of sharp and blurry, and then that varies with subject and how good you get at it. ;) Last time I did it with Superbikes I had aches in muscles I didn't know I had. :LOL:
 
dancook said:
I was racking the zoom back and forth on the 16-35mm whilst rotating the camera side to side :D it was all a bit pot luck anyway
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Some awesome shots, good luck with the career change.

Just out of interest, with the shutter drag shots how did iou have it set up, I assume on camera flash then what’s the shutter speed around a second? And aperture/iso. Will be cool to Jane a play arround with
 
RPhotos said:
Some awesome shots, good luck with the career change.

Just out of interest, with the shutter drag shots how did iou have it set up, I assume on camera flash then what’s the shutter speed around a second? And aperture/iso. Will be cool to Jane a play arround with
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Direct flash maybe 1/32

1/8th, f9ish, iso 3200.

Just have a play :) I went manual focus
 
jonneymendoza said:
awsome thanks for the comments! i will try and see if i can get them more sharper next time! I think im getting the hang of it now though
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I would start higher making sure you get sharp shots, then gradually work your way to slower shutter speeds. I struggle to get below 1/50 with the 70-200mm f2.8 though, which is a similar weight to the 100-400mm, I don't know how these folk do it with the 500 and 600mm primes :eek: I've been tempted to get the new Nikon 70-300mm for motorsport as it's super light and for this kind of shot outright IQ isn't important.
 
snerkler said:
I would start higher making sure you get sharp shots, then gradually work your way to slower shutter speeds. I struggle to get below 1/50 with the 70-200mm f2.8 though, which is a similar weight to the 100-400mm, I don't know how these folk do it with the 500 and 600mm primes :eek: I've been tempted to get the new Nikon 70-300mm for motorsport as it's super light and for this kind of shot outright IQ isn't important.
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Probably by using a tripod?
 
nandbytes said:
Probably by using a tripod?
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Probably, with gimbal head. although I have seen some just using a monopod but I just can't get on with them.
 
snerkler said:
Probably, with gimbal head. although I have seen some just using a monopod but I just can't get on with them.
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I don't get along with monopods either but people who use them tell me it gets a lot better with practice and experience.
I suppose I never had the patience for it.
 
Bristol cameras, cheapest place I found for batteries and I got a free disposable camera

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CVP will match Bristol camera's price if you ask and will also do free delivery for orders over £100 which is nice if you are ordering 2 or more of these batteries. Bristol camera on the other hand increases your delivery charge with increase in order price :p
 
So the a7 and 28 arrived and after reading on here I expected it to be a dog of a camera. But in AFS with the 28 the focussing is fast and accurate. Sure the menus will take a bit to get used to and the AFC isn’t as good as the D750 but for our trip I think it’ll be an awesome little setup.

Was impressed enough to buy an 85mm :banana:
 
T_J_G said:
So the a7 and 28 arrived and after reading on here I expected it to be a dog of a camera. But in AFS with the 28 the focussing is fast and accurate. Sure the menus will take a bit to get used to and the AFC isn’t as good as the D750 but for our trip I think it’ll be an awesome little setup.

Was impressed enough to buy an 85mm :banana:
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It's a brilliant little camera if you don't need to shoot fast action.
 
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