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

Raymond Lin said:
Ive never had it that late!
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A venue about 2 miles from me now does them. They have two wedding running simultaneously. One an all-dayer and the other a twilight one. I've booked 3 in the last few months. 2 in the summer and one in October.
 
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Was quite far away from arena today so these are quite cropped. Good to try the AF system with movement coming towards the camera from a distance though. Not happy with the colours today, or the images in general really. Don't seem to have the pop that the D750 gave.

Bliss Jump 1 by Justin Akehurst, on Flickr

Bliss Jump 2 by Justin Akehurst, on Flickr
 
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twist said:
That grip looks a bit dodgy.
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If I was looking at a camera like this I don't think this Zeiss would interest me. As it doesn't seem to have any buttons I assume you move the focus point and set the metering and do everything else by jabbing the touch screen and maybe it's just me but I don't think that's a particularly practical or nice thing to do with the camera to your eye while you're looking at the VF. Maybe screen jabbing will work for some but I can't see myself liking it or shooting and jabbing with the camera at half arms length from my face whilst I'm looking at the back screen. That might work for some but I'd rather jam my man parts in a door than regularly take pictures like that.
 
decigallen said:
No idea, but it's how we operate.

We offer two types of coverage; to the meal or to the first dance. Often in winter people just choose coverage until the meal but I think that is less about budget and more about the sun having set.
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We just charge the same all year round as well.

Somebody out there locally must be offering discount rates for mid week and off season though we have had a lot of enquiries asking about it recently.

First all Sony wedding today. All went according to plan apart from a slight regret that I didn't get an A9 rather than a second A7III.

The wife even liked the A9.

I have a couple of lenses I want to get though before I can splurge again on an another Sony body.
 
f/2.8 said:
First all Sony wedding today. All went according to plan apart from a slight regret that I didn't get an A9 rather than a second A7III.

The wife even liked the A9.
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What did you like on the Sony A9 over your A7 III...... silent shooting, blackout free or the extra knob? :D
 
Sony A7 III vs iPhone XS. [emoji33]

 
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Riz_Guru said:
What did you like on the Sony A9 over your A7 III...... silent shooting, blackout free or the extra knob? :D
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The silent shooting and the speed was amazing for me. Although we where able to use the A7III in silent mode as well during the ceremony yesterday and it worked great too. Made a real difference as the church yesterday had very little room due to the amount of people, some of the guests had to wait outside and that was even with them bringing in extra chairs at the last minute and filling the aisle so we where very up close to the couple. I don't know if it made any difference to them but it definitely made us feel more comfortable.

My missus liked the extra knob, more knobs are better apparently. :jawdrop:
 
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Maybe he has some sort of Fujiesque JPEG profile set up to get oversaturated purple skies.
 
Gaz J said:
So he writes a whole article on the importance of backing up your images which, if your a professional photographer getting paid to produce I completely agree with, and then tells you his back up is a JPEG!! If it’s that important surely RAW back ups are a must.
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Not really, Shooting raw to one card and jpeg to the other is probably the sensible option for a professional photographer.

This allows the buffer to run much faster and is especially a good idea for those using the higher resolution cameras like the A7RIII etc.

It allows for speed and a usable back up if something goes wrong. People get quite worked up about raw versus jpeg but the truth is that 99% of the item that the jpeg will be perfectly fine. Some would even say if there is an issue with the jpeg straight out of camera then you probably shouldn't be offering professional services if you are having to rely on the additional flexibility that raw files offer.

Personally I shoot raw to both most of the time but if I am using a higher res camera like my D850 then I usually shoot raw to one card and jpeg to the other.

Also with Fuji the jpegs are very nice, it's a bit of work to get the raws to look as good.
 
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f/2.8 said:
Some would even say if there is an issue with the jpeg straight out of camera then you probably shouldn't be offering professional services if you are having to rely on the additional flexibility that raw files offer.
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Unless of course you're using the capabilities that the camera offers in raw, such as deliberately exposing to the right etc.
 
woof woof said:
Unless of course you're using the capabilities that the camera offers in raw, such as deliberately exposing to the right etc.
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Yeah but the jpeg is just a back up, as with anything you have to way up the advantages vs disadvantages and decide what suits you best. The possibility of losing maybe a few files has to be weighed up against the extra speed that raw/jpeg provides over and above shooting raw/raw.
 
f/2.8 said:
Yeah but the jpeg is just a back up, as with anything you have to way up the advantages vs disadvantages and decide what suits you best. The possibility of losing maybe a few files has to be weighed up against the extra speed that raw/jpeg provides over and above shooting raw/raw.
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Oh I agree, just pointing out that there may be reasons other than peeps who shouldn't be offering professional services relying on the flexibility raw offers to recover cock ups. There may be a deliberate and reasonable reasons for needing that flexibility. Highlights, shadows and WB spring to mind.
 
JJ! said:
Not happy with the colours today, or the images in general really. Don't seem to have the pop that the D750 gave.
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What software are you using to process your pictures?
LR kills Sony RAW files by default.
 
nandbytes said:
What software are you using to process your pictures?
LR kills Sony RAW files by default.
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I'm using LR and have no idea what you're talking about! Tweaked my nikon preset a bit and all was good. Now, changing from a d3s to a D4, that was a nightmare.
 
Even with editing for what I shoot my D750 pics just had more pop. My subjects also prefer the look that the Nikon produced.

But I am in a testing phase!
 
decigallen said:
I'm using LR and have no idea what you're talking about! Tweaked my nikon preset a bit and all was good. Now, changing from a d3s to a D4, that was a nightmare.
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right so you are not using the defaults. You are using a profile. By default the results are a bit flat.
 
decigallen said:
I'm using LR and have no idea what you're talking about! Tweaked my nikon preset a bit and all was good. Now, changing from a d3s to a D4, that was a nightmare.
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The D3 had amazing rendering and tones lad. Yeah there was a fair difference in the following gen Nikons.
 
JJ! said:
Was quite far away from arena today so these are quite cropped. Good to try the AF system with movement coming towards the camera from a distance though. Not happy with the colours today, or the images in general really. Don't seem to have the pop that the D750 gave.

Bliss Jump 1 by Justin Akehurst, on Flickr

Bliss Jump 2 by Justin Akehurst, on Flickr
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Mmm odd one. I was actually surprised how similar the files where once I had run them through my normal process. Maybe using the same lens I was using mostly on the D750 helped.
 
Got the Sony 85mm F/1.8 and Tamron 28-75mm F/2.8 coming tomorrow and Tuesday hopefully. :) Still a few things to buy, new bag and strap, new tripod, filters and ordered a new NAS system to store the files away from my main computer. :)
 
Kieran_89 said:
Got the Sony 85mm F/1.8 and Tamron 28-75mm F/2.8 coming tomorrow and Tuesday hopefully. :) Still a few things to buy, new bag and strap, new tripod, filters and ordered a new NAS system to store the files away from my main computer. :)
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I basically have the same setup. :)

I also have a samyang 24mm f2.8 for a small light weight setup.
 
nandbytes said:
I basically have the same setup. :)

I also have a samyang 24mm f2.8 for a small light weight setup.
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It's a perfectly good setup for someone just moving to FF mirrorless :) how do you rate the sharpness of the 24mm? I'm looking for a sharp landscape lens to take to Wales with me next month. :)
 
Kieran_89 said:
It's a perfectly good setup for someone just moving to FF mirrorless :) how do you rate the sharpness of the 24mm? I'm looking for a sharp landscape lens to take to Wales with me next month. :)
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Sharpness wise its usable at f2.8 (goes by your standards really). If you are hoping for a tack sharp lens wide open then this lens is definitely not for you. But stopped down even one stop it's sharp across the frame so it'll work nicely for landscapes.

This is no GM or sigma ART but for the size, price and weight it definitely hits very high and definitely above it's weight.

P.s. I'll eventually put mine up for sale. Let me know if you are interested. I am not in a hurry to sell though since I am only selling to replace it with newly announced Sony 24mmGM which I won't get my hands for a while.
 
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I think I know why I ran in to some issues today. Please correct me if I am wrong!

Had camera set at 8fps in AFC but couple of times it seemed a bit sluggish and even mis focused a couple of times.

Think the issue was that I had it recording jpeg and raw to same card (I’m guessing you can change this) and I don’t yet have a high speed card due to £££.

Does this set up sound like it could have caused the issues?
 
JJ! said:
I think I know why I ran in to some issues today. Please correct me if I am wrong!

Had camera set at 8fps in AFC but couple of times it seemed a bit sluggish and even mis focused a couple of times.

Think the issue was that I had it recording jpeg and raw to same card (I’m guessing you can change this) and I don’t yet have a high speed card due to £££.

Does this set up sound like it could have caused the issues?
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:D

Mmm yeah don’t do that.
 
nandbytes said:
Sharpness wise its usable at f2.8 (goes by your standards really). If you are hoping for a tack sharp lens wide open then this lens is definitely not for you. But stopped down even one stop it's sharp across the frame so it'll work nicely for landscapes.

This is no GM or sigma ART but for the size, price and weight it definitely hits very high and definitely above it's weight.

P.s. I'll eventually put mine up for sale. Let me know if you are interested. I am not in a hurry to sell though since I am only selling to replace it with newly announced Sony 24mmGM which I won't get my hands for a while.
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What's the 24mm GM going to cost you? It's £1400 isn't it? What would you recommend for pin sharp landscapes for around the £600 mark? Or is it worth going for the 24mm GM? As i'll be printing some on a canvas. :)
 
nandbytes said:
right so you are not using the defaults. You are using a profile. By default the results are a bit flat.
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Not sure I follow. What do you mean by default? Like unedited?!

Different cameras have different traits that are You can fix with a bit of tweaking. For instance, I had to play with the blacks more with the d750. The Sony a7iii needs more whites tweaking than the d750 though.

I had to work way harder with the d4 and d800 to get tones I liked at the start. And by the time I sold the xt2 I was still only half happy with my editing.
 
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