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

Riz_Guru said:
I’m keep a close eye on the announcements but doubt it will surpass what Sony has on offer. :)
I’m looking out for some lenses...

35mm f1.8

35mm f1.4 GM
50mm f1.4 GM

135mm f1.8 GM

105mm f2.8 GM Macro

200-500mm f4.5-5.6 GM Telephoto

Lol :D
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There's a 50mm 1.4 already..
 
A7 and Voigtlander 40mm f1.2 from todays bramble picking, the light was poor but hey ho...

Butterfly at 100% and f4.5...

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oh dear, it seems to have lost a bit of sharpness by being posted here.

Berries at f5...

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Teeny tiny flowers at f1.2.

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and lastly "Take my picture with the trees" f2...

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Mrs WW will make jam and smoothies with the brambles and I'll make apple and bramble pies :D
 
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woof woof said:
A7 and Voigtlander 40mm f1.2 from todays bramble picking, the light was poor but hey ho...

Butterfly at 100% and f4.5...

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oh dear, it seems to have lost a bit of sharpness by being posted here.

Berries at f5...

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Teeny tiny flowers at f1.2.

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and lastly "Take my picture with the trees" f2...

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Mrs WW will make jam and smoothies with the brambles and I'll make apple and bramble pies :D
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Yeah. Put me down for the pies...
 
sjh2008 said:
I have the A7R2 with 24-105, 55mm 1.8 and Loxia 21mm. Great setup the 24-105 as I find it a usefull range, 55mm for low light and flowers at f2ish and loxia for WA stuff. It's small ,light , sharp and high quality materials used. Beats my 14mm when I used Fuji gear.
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I do like the 21mm focal length was thinking about a 85mm or the 90mm macro as well.

Kiwi Paul said:
Depending on how wide you want to go the Voightlander 15mm (or even 10 and 12mm) E mount lenses are excellent, small, compact and great IQ, manual focus and aperture selection though.
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Im happy with the manual focus and aperture Paul. Don't shoot wider than 20mm mainly but a 15mm is nice on the odd occasion, suppose the 16-35 f4 would be the logical choice but do like the idea of the Loxia.
 
Raymond Lin said:
I ought to know myself by now, just bought a 85GM off here today....couldn’t resist.

Now will compare to the FE 1.8...it might be on sale this coming days!
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Both are sharp, GM has very nice rendering but slower AF and of course it's a big lump of glass.
 
Raymond Lin said:
It can’t be slower than the 85L.
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It isn't. Lot faster and you'll get keepers at a better rate too with eyeAF. It's sharper than 85L too but I really like the way 85L renders wide open. Hard choice if I had to choose between the two but I'd go with GM for the better AF.
 
nandbytes said:
It isn't. Lot faster and you'll get keepers at a better rate too with eyeAF. It's sharper than 85L too but I really like the way 85L renders wide open. Hard choice if I had to choose between the two but I'd go with GM for the better AF.
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The things I shoot with the 85 isn’t fast moving so it’s fine.

I’m looking for something that renders nice, low CA mainly and not the size of a boat.
 
I'm wondering how many people on here have 2 bodies for general walk about. Fact is I'm apparently useless at keeping the exposed sensor clean when I change lenses, even when I change at home I invariably finish up cleaning the sensor eventually.
Goodness knows what I'd be like in a dusty and breezy urban environment.
I'm considering buying an A7ii as a companion to my A7Riii and for instance having my little 35mm 2.8 on one and a 16-35 on the other for wider shots when in town for general shooting. My 2 main reasons for choosing the A7ii is IBIS and relative cheapness used.
 
Raymond Lin said:
The things I shoot with the 85 isn’t fast moving so it’s fine.

I’m looking for something that renders nice, low CA mainly and not the size of a boat.
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The Sigma art on e mount is worth the size. It's easily the best 85 I have ever owned.
 
footman said:
I'm wondering how many people on here have 2 bodies for general walk about. Fact is I'm apparently useless at keeping the exposed sensor clean when I change lenses, even when I change at home I invariably finish up cleaning the sensor eventually.
Goodness knows what I'd be like in a dusty and breezy urban environment.
I'm considering buying an A7ii as a companion to my A7Riii and for instance having my little 35mm 2.8 on one and a 16-35 on the other for wider shots when in town for general shooting. My 2 main reasons for choosing the A7ii is IBIS and relative cheapness used.
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I have an A72 as my main camera and an A6300 as a second camera, the A6300 crop sensor is great when using the 70-300 lens as it becomes a 105-450 equiv on the A6300.
 
footman said:
I'm wondering how many people on here have 2 bodies for general walk about. Fact is I'm apparently useless at keeping the exposed sensor clean when I change lenses, even when I change at home I invariably finish up cleaning the sensor eventually.
Goodness knows what I'd be like in a dusty and breezy urban environment.
I'm considering buying an A7ii as a companion to my A7Riii and for instance having my little 35mm 2.8 on one and a 16-35 on the other for wider shots when in town for general shooting. My 2 main reasons for choosing the A7ii is IBIS and relative cheapness used.
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i have two. a9 and a7r3. infact i am tempted to bring both again and stick two primes on em for
 
footman said:
I'm wondering how many people on here have 2 bodies for general walk about. Fact is I'm apparently useless at keeping the exposed sensor clean when I change lenses, even when I change at home I invariably finish up cleaning the sensor eventually.
Goodness knows what I'd be like in a dusty and breezy urban environment.
I'm considering buying an A7ii as a companion to my A7Riii and for instance having my little 35mm 2.8 on one and a 16-35 on the other for wider shots when in town for general shooting. My 2 main reasons for choosing the A7ii is IBIS and relative cheapness used.
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Just shoot everything at f1.4 and never worry about dust again ;)

Tbh even if you don’t change lenses you can still get dust in, especially using zoom lenses which can pull dust in, it’s just a fact of digital photography. Some cameras have a self clean feature that you can set to operate every time you turn the camera on or off (or both) but eventually it will require a manual clean.
 
Kiwi Paul said:
I have an A72 as my main camera and an A6300 as a second camera, the A6300 crop sensor is great when using the 70-300 lens as it becomes a 105-450 equiv on the A6300.
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You could probably buy an A7riii and used it in FF and crop mode instead of walking around with 2 bodies and sets of lenses.
 
twist said:
You could probably buy an A7riii and used it in FF and crop mode instead of walking around with 2 bodies and sets of lenses.
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Well I could but I already have the A72 and A6300, I like the A6300 + crop lenses as an alternate small compact system, I don't take the crop lenses when I'm out with the A72 kit just pop the small A6300 body into the front compartment of my camera bag.
I used to have the A7R2 and cropped that in pp rather than in camera when using the 70-300 if required, you get about 18Mp in crop mode on the A7R2 or 3.
 
nandbytes said:
It IS just too big.
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I tried it on the 5D4, on that it is not that bad, and kind of well balanced. On the A7 with that extra inch, it is the size of a 70-200 almost for an 85mm which for my 35/85 combo, it becomes cumbersome. Impossible certainly not, but definitely cumbersome.

It was why I got the 85/1.8 in the first place.

I am not sure the advantages of the Sigma is worth it's size.
 
nandbytes said:
It isn't and same applies for 50mm ART. In fact I rather use FE55 and FE85/1.8 than the huge unnecessary lumps of glass.
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I am trying to find a side by side image of both lenses online but can't find one….

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nandbytes said:
It isn't and same applies for 50mm ART. In fact I rather use FE55 and FE85/1.8 than the huge unnecessary lumps of glass.
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Ah says the person who's not even tried the combo. The 50art is definitely better than the 55, I'll agree about the 85 though, that art is massive....
 
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twist said:
Ah says the person who's not even tried the combo. The 50art is definitely better than the 55.
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No it isn't.

I have had both lenses. Owned FE55 when it was released and had borrowed 50mm ART on a-mount. 50mm art is an unnecessarily huge chunk of glass with worst rendering of all the 50mm 1.4s I have used.
 
nandbytes said:
No it isn't.

I have had both lenses. Owned FE55 when it was released and had borrowed 50mm ART on a-mount. 50mm art is an unnecessarily huge chunk of glass with worst rendering of all the 50mm 1.4s I have used.
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It is definitely better and renders better than the boring 55. Sharper, more MC and smoother.
 
twist said:
It is definitely better and renders better than the boring 55. Sharper, more MC and smoother.
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It's not better, it's simply huge. With that much glass if it's not shaper then what else would justify its existence lol :P
 
nandbytes said:
It's not better, it's simply huge. With that much glass if it's not shaper then what else would justify its existence lol :p
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Exactly, it's better optically, like I said. Just like the 35 art destroys the Zeiss you thought was better. :p

What are you doing about 35 btw?
 
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twist said:
Exactly, it's better optically, like I said. Just like the 35 art destroys the Zeiss you thought was better. :p

What are you doing about 35 btw?
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I wouldn't say destroys and it has it's benefits

Erm... I don't know yet. Thinking of buying that 100-400mm GM. I also had to pay for car insurance, road tax and MOT this month. Also need to book flight tickets got October holiday.
So I am bit streched right now.
 
footman said:
I'm wondering how many people on here have 2 bodies for general walk about. Fact is I'm apparently useless at keeping the exposed sensor clean when I change lenses, even when I change at home I invariably finish up cleaning the sensor eventually.
Goodness knows what I'd be like in a dusty and breezy urban environment.
I'm considering buying an A7ii as a companion to my A7Riii and for instance having my little 35mm 2.8 on one and a 16-35 on the other for wider shots when in town for general shooting. My 2 main reasons for choosing the A7ii is IBIS and relative cheapness used.
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Thanks for the replies, I shall be on the lookout for an A7ii :)
 
nandbytes said:
I wouldn't say destroys and it has it's benefits

Erm... I don't know yet. Thinking of buying that 100-400mm GM. I also had to pay for car insurance, road tax and MOT this month. Also need to book flight tickets got October holiday.
So I am bit streched right now.
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Same here, the 100-400 is incredible, a friend bought it with the 1.4x TC, really impressed.
 
twist said:
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I think Nikon need to be at least on Par personally, but I don't think it will matter to the masses if it's not tbh. If it's half decent I'm sure it will sell well even if the internet shoots it down in flames ;)
 
snerkler said:
I think Nikon need to be at least on Par personally, but I don't think it will matter to the masses if it's not tbh. If it's half decent I'm sure it will sell well even if the internet shoots it down in flames ;)
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Yup, it will, its another FF mirrorless option (finally), especially for Nikon users who dont want to switch.
 
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