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

woof woof said:
There are some knowledgeable people on LL but I've also read a lot over there that is IMO complete tosh. Overall though I do wonder how much of this is fanboyism, kidology and marketing rather than an actual personal preference based only on what the viewer is looking at and nothing more.
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Why the obsession over LL? Let it go, let it go...

Most photographers I know generally find a way they like to work and brands/products they like to work with, it can lead them to perhaps not making the best decisions from time to time but if they feel it works for them, who are we to argue?
 
simonbarker said:
Why the obsession over LL? Let it go, let it go...

Most photographers I know generally find a way they like to work and brands/products they like to work with, it can lead them to perhaps not making the best decisions from time to time but if they feel it works for them, who are we to argue?
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Fair point...... :)
 
Ok I get it now, Sony eye AF just works :eek:

Obviously I can live without it but it’s very impressive and I now don’t want to live without it (y)
 
rookies said:
Brilliant that is. Lovely pop. How you finding the new toy
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So far very impressed (y) Would be nice if the EVF was Z7 standard but I guess we can’t have everything ;) Besides I didn’t mind using the one in the Ollly (y)
 
snerkler said:
Ok I get it now, Sony eye AF just works :eek:

Obviously I can live without it but it’s very impressive and I now don’t want to live without it (y)
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Yeah..... hopefully I don't miss Eye-AF too much.... the rest I can live without if I am being honest.
 
snerkler said:
Ok I get it now, Sony eye AF just works :eek:

Obviously I can live without it but it’s very impressive and I now don’t want to live without it (y)
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i do find it works well on other brands, but the fact Sony's just locks on and stays there is very comforting at the time! fujis is very good, but has a bit of a "nervous" flickering to it. Canon's isn't too far behind at all.
 
Yup Sony rules for the eye af as we all
Say it sticks.
 
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Mr Perceptive said:
I got seduced by a show double cashback, and bought a Canon Pro-1000 printer last year, cost me £17 a kilo, needless to say I got it shipped rather than lug it back to the car park!!
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Those are pretty good photo printers.... I don't have the time or the room to use one! :D lol
I have been very fortunate to have a good relationship with my Sony supplier so always had a good level of discount..... that's now ended as Fuji have a very strict control over their margins! lol :(
 
Mr Perceptive said:
I got seduced by a show double cashback, and bought a Canon Pro-1000 printer last year, cost me £17 a kilo, needless to say I got it shipped rather than lug it back to the car park!!
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Printer on my list this year too
 
100-400mm massively cropped to nearly 1:1 (view on Flickr as it's soft on here)


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pmac said:
How was Korea it’s on my list
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I can answer this but I always compare it to Japan because it is so close...and so here goes.

I think S.Korea is a bit bland, it is like Japan without the fun edge, it doesn't have the Akihabara and Otaku culture or the outrageous Harajuku fashion scene (even though that has died down).

Korea is as clean, although i can find bins much easier, people are as polite as a whole...except those who are older*. I am not sure why but I found the architecture rather boring. May be from all the wars in the 20th century, from the Japanese occupation up to WWII, the Korean war, I guess there was a lot of rebuilding, but the 2 cities that i have been to, they seem to either built a lot from scratch or exploded in population as what is there are very bland. The very old traditional Hanok style houses are nice but VERY few far between, although they too are very similar to one an other. In Japan there is his fine detail in more than just a house, there is this detail in gardens, bonsai etc, it seems Korea lacks that, i found it to be very plain as a whole in terms of the city (Seoul).

Looking from above, there are a LOT of residential flats that are around 40 stories tall, which actually strangely enough, Japan/Tokyo has much less of. You see a lot more houses in Tokyo.

Like this...all residential flats

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Under the surface, there is a massive E-Sports culture - not really a fan so didn't part take.
There is a huge K-Pop culture, I had a little taste by going to Hongdae, there are live street performances by teenagers/20 something, they are actually really fun. There were a couple of BTS wannabe, a girl who dance and dance and a guy singing and playing an acoustic guitar. So that part is cool.

Beyond that though, from my perspective it seems the whole place was all about eating and drinking with friends (group socialising is a big thing), up until recently, it is hard to eat alone in a restaurant, all servings are for 2 people +, some places still are, and shopping. So i felt consumerising seems to be massive and if you are into culture, there doesn't seem to be much there. The palaces were empty, not just from people due to the Covid-19 outbreak, but they don't seem to be that interesting, it is just lots of spaces with the same design building spread around.

Here and there, there are some interesting places. The COEX mall Standsfield Library is cool.

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But it seems from all the modernisation after the war, they had forgotten the past, or at least, it is a very westernised culture with the exception of the *. Much less Asian feel that i have ever felt, besides the food...god, everything is spicy!

Also, big companies are just everywhere, Lotte is massive, they own the tallest building in the country, they have their supermarkets, they have their burger place, they have their restaurants. Hyundai is more than just cars, they have a shopping mall. It seems there are less individual shops, a lot of malls. The roads too are designed for cars, I seem to be crossing a lot of dual carriageways, which suggests it was a city designed from scratch, not built around people over the centuries.

* Their culture is heavily lean on the idea that respect your elders, from when you drink, you drink away from them, you must pour them drinks, to their language/grammar is structured to polite and casual depending who you are speaking to in terms of friends or elders. In all the subway, a row of seats, the one on the end is colour pink reserved for elderly, pregnant women or disabled. I once saw a girl sat on it (the train wasn't even packed), an older guy got on and the first thing he did was he physically kicked the base of the bench and shouted at her. I never seen someone ran so fast. She didn't say a thing and just ran to another carriage. He then just looked around, everyone else avoided eye contact with him.

He didn't even sit down on that seat.
 
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addicknchips said:
i do find it works well on other brands, but the fact Sony's just locks on and stays there is very comforting at the time! fujis is very good, but has a bit of a "nervous" flickering to it. Canon's isn't too far behind at all.
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It does work well on others yeah, but from my experience this is in another league, and I don't think it's a case of the emperor's new clothes either ;)
addicknchips said:
very nice. what are the crop options for this camera? ive got a function button customised to switch to crop mode giving me about 18mp. whats the options on the iv?
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Thanks. You have an APS-C crop (1.5x) giving a 26mp image. You also have a digital clear zoom which allows up to a 2x zoom whilst maintaining full resolution via some clever processing, although this is jpeg only.
The Weasel said:
What a belter, that's a lovely image.

The more I see what these Sony cameras and lenses can do, the more I'm impressed.
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Cheers, appreciate it.
wardy07 said:
Stunning! What a great dog too.
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Thanks very much.
 
snerkler said:
It does work well on others yeah, but from my experience this is in another league, and I don't think it's a case of the emperor's new clothes either ;)
Thanks. You have an APS-C crop (1.5x) giving a 26mp image. You also have a digital clear zoom which allows up to a 2x zoom whilst maintaining full resolution via some clever processing, although this is jpeg only.
Cheers, appreciate it.

Thanks very much.
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wow. can probably get some great product shots if you get it right in camera.
 
Mr Perceptive said:
Never keeps it long enough to read the manual (or investigate all the menus)........................................
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last time i checked the a7r2 has no option to customise the crop mode to a function button. have to go via the menu. maybe ive missed this on a recent fw update though.
 
snerkler said:
Just want to double check, can this flash (Godox TT600S)
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07FL4C...jbGlja1JlZGlyZWN0JmRvTm90TG9nQ2xpY2s9dHJ1ZQ==

Be controlled by this flash trigger
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Godox-High...jbGlja1JlZGlyZWN0JmRvTm90TG9nQ2xpY2s9dHJ1ZQ==

without the need for a separate receiver? From what I can gather the TT600S has a built in receiver, is this correct? Does the Godox play nice with Sony?
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i have the trigger and the tt685s working fine.
 
simonbarker said:
Why the obsession over LL? Let it go, let it go...

Most photographers I know generally find a way they like to work and brands/products they like to work with, it can lead them to perhaps not making the best decisions from time to time but if they feel it works for them, who are we to argue?
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It's a photography site I read stuff on now and again not a crack habiIt, it has gone downhill though imo.
 
addicknchips said:
i have the trigger and the tt685s working fine.
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Thanks, I'm probably going to go fo that over the TT600s now as despite the listing saying the 600 having TTL I've now read that it doesn't :rolleyes:
 
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