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

trevorbray said:
Currently in my living room with low ambient lighting. Christmas Tree and a single table lamp. I can see perfectly well. I want to take a picture of Daughter and newest Granddaughter. I’m using off camera flash. I’ve metered for an exposure, ISO 200. F5.6. 1/125th. With my Fuji set to these settings the EVF is too dark to see my subject. Tried switching to Natural LiveView. A little better but not good enough.

Big question. Will the A7iii be any better, will I be able to see my subject. I know I can use a DSLR but would like to stick with Mirrorless. This is a big deal for me, I’m going to be taking a few shots like this over the next several weeks.

Any help appreciated.
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There are a couple of settings for the evf, one with the exposure settings shown called "shutter effect on" and one without. With "on" selected in a dimly lit room with your settings I get a very dark evf but when "Off" is selected I see the room pretty much how my eyes see it but there's a price to pay as any movement of the camera or subject will lead to a jerky movement in the evf, with my A7 anyway.
 
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rob-nikon said:
Thanks I will try that. I had a read of the manual, it seems compressed is a form of a lossy file type (ie some data is stripped out). Uncompressed keeps everything. There is definitely a big difference regarding the number of files the camera says can fit on a memory card depending on if you go for compressed or uncompressed.
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It is lossy compression but you don't lose much in terms of IQ. You'll only really have issues if want to push files beyond 5 stops which is really pushing things very close to if not past the dynamic range of the sensor.
Besides if you are shooting things under exposed by 5-6 stops at 10fps I think you have bigger problems than lossy compression. So basically/photographically it's a non-issue.

Also cRAW is 42mb vs. 84mb. So at 10 FPS you'd save a hell of a lot of space for no loss in IQ
 
nandbytes said:
It is lossy compression but you don't lose much in terms of IQ. You'll only really have issues if want to push files beyond 5 stops which is really pushing things very close to if not past the dynamic range of the sensor.
Besides if you are shooting things under exposed by 5-6 stops at 10fps I think you have bigger problems than lossy compression. So basically/photographically it's a non-issue.

Also cRAW is 42mb vs. 84mb. So at 10 FPS you'd save a hell of a lot of space for no loss in IQ
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Thanks that’s really useful. I’m not use how often I will want to be shooting at 10 FPS, it’s great to know it’s there if needed.
 
rob-nikon said:
Thanks that’s really useful. I’m not use how often I will want to be shooting at 10 FPS, it’s great to know it’s there if needed.
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Tend to have mine toned right down on med or low as the thing goes off like a machine gun in H+ [emoji3]
 
woof woof said:
There are a couple of settings for the evf, one with the exposure settings shown called "shutter effect on" and one without. With "on" selected in a dimly lit room with your settings I get a very dark evf but when "Off" is selected I see the room pretty much how my eyes see it but there's a price to pay as any movement of the camera or subject will lead to a jerky movement in the evf, with my A7 anyway.
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Thanks Alan. Very helpful. Fuji seem to call shutter effect off Natural Live View. Seems that the Sony requires more investigation from me...b****r..
 
trevorbray said:
Currently in my living room with low ambient lighting. Christmas Tree and a single table lamp. I can see perfectly well. I want to take a picture of Daughter and newest Granddaughter. I’m using off camera flash. I’ve metered for an exposure, ISO 200. F5.6. 1/125th. With my Fuji set to these settings the EVF is too dark to see my subject. Tried switching to Natural LiveView. A little better but not good enough.

Big question. Will the A7iii be any better, will I be able to see my subject. I know I can use a DSLR but would like to stick with Mirrorless. This is a big deal for me, I’m going to be taking a few shots like this over the next several weeks.

Any help appreciated.
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Works great by turning live view display off. Use it for the studio work. So at typical ISO 100, f10 1/160 it’s a little noisy but perfectly fine to use.
 
Livin The Dream said:
Tend to have mine toned right down on med or low as the thing goes off like a machine gun in H+ [emoji3]
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I’ve watched a few YouTube and it does seem to goes like a machine gun! I’m sure I will be using medium or low mode more often than high+. I’m looking forward to trying the silent shutter mode. Quite often I scare off wildlife because of the sound of the shutter. Being totally silent could be very useful.
 
Livin The Dream said:
Just tried those settings in my dim Christmas lit living room and registers black, but the EVF interpretation is very good with LV turned off [emoji106]
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Thanks. Tried it on my Fuji. EVF is still black.
 
trevorbray said:
Thanks. Tried it on my Fuji. EVF is still black.
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To be more precise, those settings are 7 stops under correct exposure for my room.

Does it not amplify the view in the same way, or just not as much latitude? That wouldn’t great for the studio use?
 
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Livin The Dream said:
To be more precise, those settings are 7 stops under correct exposure for my room.

Does it not amplify the view in the same way, or just not as much latitude? That wouldn’t great for the studio use?
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I can increase the brightness but still not good enough.
 
Livin The Dream said:
Er, nope [emoji20] I don’t read up enough..

In practice though, it’s above 1/1000. So, do you just have it turned off until you need it?
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It's not a big enough difference for me to worry about. I rarely shoot at such a fast shutter speed especially at this time of the year. :D
 
Livin The Dream said:
To be more precise, those settings are 7 stops under correct exposure for my room.

Does it not amplify the view in the same way, or just not as much latitude? That wouldn’t great for the studio use?
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trevorbray said:
I can increase the brightness but still not good enough.
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I’ve been shown how to turn exposure preview off on Fuji. I’ll try it later. Could/should solve my issue. (Just about to hit BIN on A73)

I was going to use this issue as reason enough to order...
 
rookies said:
Anyone here know what this like

https://www.wexphotovideo.com/sigma...b01a4a16c0762215d9a1f4ed126e3d4&utm_source=aw
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I tried one out in a local shop just before I bought the Sony 90mm Macro from the classifieds on here.

It seemed spot on, all macro lenses are good really. You will struggle to find a bad one, for macro work though this is a bit short.

For the same money or not much more you should be able to pick up a used Sony 90mm Macro though which is better built and has faster a.f for the odd time you might want to use it for something else other than macro.
 
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Yup I like a good AF as I would use it for portrait sometime as I did with the canon macro I had
 
trevorbray said:
I’ve been shown how to turn exposure preview off on Fuji. I’ll try it later. Could/should solve my issue. (Just about to hit BIN on A73)

I was going to use this issue as reason enough to order...
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Sorted. Exposure preview off.

Damn. 1 less reason I can give for WANTing/NEEDing A73 to SWMBO.
 
trevorbray said:
Sorted. Exposure preview off.

Damn. 1 less reason I can give for WANTing/NEEDing A73 to SWMBO.
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Shhh just slip one pass her. Won’t know the difference
 
I miss my little Samyang 35mm. I might have to get another one!
 
If I get one (A7iii) I can only afford one lens to start. My most used focal length is 35mm. Siggy or Samyang 1.4 ? And why.
 
rookies said:
Hello all. Had a bit of time this morning so tried get myself back I to taking photos. So though I share

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by Andrew Rookes, on Flickr

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Love these Andrew,
all very atmospheric,
 
justa1972 said:
Anyone here use the 24-70 f4 - is it as bad as the reviews say ?
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I think the complaint is not that it's a bad lens but rather with a RRP of £1050 you'd expect exceptional performance.

I'm not sure how much sense it makes with the Tamron 28-75mm as an option, the Zeiss is smaller and can be found a lot cheaper used though.
 
simonbarker said:
I think the complaint is not that it's a bad lens but rather with a RRP of £1050 you'd expect exceptional performance.

I'm not sure how much sense it makes with the Tamron 28-75mm as an option, the Zeiss is smaller and can be found a lot cheaper used though.
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Yes thats it really - trying to find the best quality zoom lens with the lowest weight/size. The Tamron is a bit too big for my liking - even the 28-70 seems enormous to me !
 
simonbarker said:
I think the complaint is not that it's a bad lens but rather with a RRP of £1050 you'd expect exceptional performance.

I'm not sure how much sense it makes with the Tamron 28-75mm as an option, the Zeiss is smaller and can be found a lot cheaper used though.
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Ouch price gone up?

Mine was £850 at photography show
 
Keep meaning to ask should all these lens have a black bag as I’ve one missing I think

24-70 f4
85 1.8

Both Sony
 
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