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

nandbytes said:
Some of it is probably subjective. you are after all in a Sony thread where most people would think its imagine quality is fine. if it weren't why would they continue to shoot with it.
For me image quality and AF are top priorities. I don't see any other brand offering me anything that's conceivably better in terms of image quality, AF wise canon seems to provide what I'd like more so than Sony.
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And less time fixing colour in post. Subjective of course.
 
nandbytes said:
I was looking on wex....
www.wexphotovideo.com

Lexar 128GB 1667x (250MB/Sec) Professional UHS-II SDXC Card | Wex Photo Video

www.wexphotovideo.com

They either have two variants or I guess better to believe the official website?

Even still the UHS-I card I linked above is slightly faster write speed for less money. I have two of those in 256GB for shooting landscapes and pixelshift on A7RIV.
Plus I have bunch of 128GB 280/260mb/s read/write tough cards from manfrotto. I can definitely tell the difference when I am shooting at 5-8fps.

I also have couple sandisk 300mb/s cards they are really nice too. but now I generally use the tough cards for most part.
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Sandisk 300mb/s and Sony tough are very pricey though. The prograde 300/250mb/s arguably look the best value at £120 for a 128gb card.
 
twist said:
And less time fixing colour in post. Subjective of course.
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Once I’ve created my own preset no one brand takes any more time than the other for me. I just import with my preset which has the colours how I want them and job done (y)
 
snerkler said:
Once I’ve created my own preset no one brand takes any more time than the other for me. I just import with my preset which has the colours how I want them and job done (y)
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I'd disagree. No preset can match a good sooc raw.
 
twist said:
And less time fixing colour in post. Subjective of course.
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I made a calculation recently for someone about the time and I think it worked out around 5 hours of time wasted per year. I have spent more time debating about it on the internet. I'd be better off time wise leaving the forums instead of changing my brand for colours :ROFLMAO:
 
twist said:
I'd disagree. No preset can match a good sooc raw.
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Never said it did, but my workflow is to create a preset I like for each camera (with hues, saturation and luminance to my preference) and then set this to apply on import as default.

When I’ve contemplated Canon and downloaded raw samples I had to do the same with those to.

I no longer need to fix colours in post per se as it’s all automated. The only alteration I might apply (in terms of colour) is WB adjustments.This is where I find Sony not as good as Nikon.
 
nandbytes said:
I made a calculation recently for someone about the time and I think it worked out around 5 hours of time wasted per year. I have spent more time debating about it on the internet. I'd be better off time wise leaving the forums instead of changing my brand for colours :ROFLMAO:
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Depends on how much colour/tones bother them. 5hrs... I'd add a lot more to that over a year.
 
twist said:
120 quid for 128gb at those speeds. Apple love overpricing their memory/ram upgrades but £1 per (slow GB) is a joke.
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Relatively cheap compared to the Sandisk Extreme Pro that are over £200 for the same speed (near as dammit) 300/260mb/s
 
twist said:
Depends on how much colour/tones bother them. 5hrs... I'd add a lot more to that over a year.
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I shoot like 20K images in a year. I import about 25-30%, so 5-6K images in a year (less last year more year before but lets take the average I guess)
Only about 10% of those are the real keepers per say, I pay some attention in fixing those.
Then I print around 10% of the keeper so we are talking 50-60. Those the one I pay a lot more attention to all the details and colours.

So I don't generally have a lot of images I need to spend a lot of time fixing.

May be if i was shooting weddings or something else like that professionally I'd feel differently about it all but at the moment it really doesn't bother me from a time perspective.
 
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snerkler said:
Relatively cheap compared to the Sandisk Extreme Pro that are over £200 for the same speed (near as dammit) 300/260mb/s
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Camera memory is hideously expensive. Just like camera gear, it's going up due to lack of uptake, slow manufacturing, but some will pay the crazy prices.
 
nandbytes said:
I bought the Manfrotto tough ones on half price offer. They were well worth the money.
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Didn’t even know they did them. Just looked, £99 for 128gb 280/250mb/s direct from Manfrotto, or £199 on Amazon :eek:
 
twist said:
Photography really is a bit rubbish at the moment anyway, most of us have thousands sitting around doing nothing, but keep buying.
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Selling hasn't been easy either unless you are trading stuff in or selling your gear at near trade-in prices :(
 
snerkler said:
Didn’t even know they did them. Just looked, £99 for 128gb 280/250mb/s direct from Manfrotto, or £199 on Amazon :eek:
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Looks like its on offer again then. pretty sure I paid £95 each direct from Manfrotto too.
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yep its on offer! great price for something that nearly the same speed as Sandisk for less than half price and also tough.
they are real tight fit in A7RIV though.
 
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twist said:
Camera memory is hideously expensive. Just like camera gear, it's going up due to lack of uptake, slow manufacturing, but some will pay the crazy prices.
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I always used to buy Sandisk but they’re far too expensive now.

From your previous posts have Apple bought out prograde then as last I heard it was a joint venture between former Sandisk and Lexar CEOs?
 
nandbytes said:
I shoot like 20K images in a year. I import about 25-30%, so 5-6K images in a year (less last year more year before but lets take the average I guess)
Only about 10% of those are the real keepers per say, I pay some attention in fixing those.
Then I print around 10% of the keeper so we are talking 50-60. Those the one I pay a lot more attention to all the details and colours.

So I don't generally have a lot of images I need to spend a lot of time fixing.

May be if i was shooting weddings or something else like that professionally I'd feel differently about it all but at the moment it really doesn't bother me from a time perspective.
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I guess you're right depending on usage, but it is a nice experience not having to (mostly) colour correct. I recently lost about 7 years of LR edits and having to go back and colour correct most of them makes me feel sick.
 
snerkler said:
I always used to buy Sandisk but they’re far too expensive now.

From your previous posts have Apple bought out prograde then as last I heard it was a joint venture between former Sandisk and Lexar CEOs?
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Sandisk is the only memory to have failed more than once for me. I'm not a big fan.
 
twist said:
I guess you're right depending on usage, but it is a nice experience not having to (mostly) colour correct. I recently lost about 7 years of LR edits and having to go back and colour correct most of them makes me feel sick.
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yeah being locked into LR subscription so you can keep your edits really sucks!
 
nandbytes said:
Selling hasn't been easy either unless you are trading stuff in or selling your gear at near trade-in prices :(
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My stuff is bare bones. Body, 23/33/85. Doesn't get used, valuations look okay but can't get rid as I feel like I'd be selling an organ.
 
nandbytes said:
yeah being locked into LR subscription so you can keep your edits really sucks!
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Don’t you export your edits and save out of LR? Any of my keeper edits are exported to full res jpeg.

I guess backing up the catalogue doesn’t help as you’d still need LR to open them.
 
twist said:
My stuff is bare bones. Body, 23/33/85. Doesn't get used, valuations look okay but can't get rid as I feel like I'd be selling an organ.
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Exactly! just can't bring myself to give my FF body and primes and the 200-600mm
 
snerkler said:
Don’t you export your edits and save out of LR? Any of my keeper edits are exported to full res jpeg.

I guess backing up the catalogue doesn’t help as you’d still need LR to open them.
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yeah I do export jpgs and they get automatically backedup to amazon drive/cloud.
but if I want to go back and re-edit or make changes it doesn't work very well :(
 
nandbytes said:
yeah I do export jpgs and they get automatically backedup to amazon drive/cloud.
but if I want to go back and re-edit or make changes it doesn't work very well :(
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True, it is ‘criminal’ they don’t do a standalone product. You wouldn’t even be able to run the last standalone LR and convert future files to DNG as you’d still need an up to date cameraraw which I believe is also part of CC now :(
 
twist said:
Was backed up, corrupt. Lesson learnt, non destructive is awesome till you lose the file that handles all your edits. Now pondering how to move forward.
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So the current catalogue and the backup were both corrupt? That sucks :(

I have 2x time machine backups then periodically manually backup the catalogue to two more external drives that way if it gets corrupt at least it’ll only be the most recent edits I lose. I’m not sure there’s any completely full proof way to do it.
 
snerkler said:
So the current catalogue and the backup were both corrupt? That sucks :(

I have 2x time machine backups then periodically manually backup the catalogue to two more external drives that way if it gets corrupt at least it’ll only be the most recent edits I lose. I’m not sure there’s any completely full proof way to do it.
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Yes. I guess a backup of a corrupt file is bloody useless unless you check the file/s... So check your backup.

Still have my photos, thankfully.
 
If I lost all my photos I think I would genuinely never touch a camera again besides throwing it all against the wall.
 
twist said:
Was backed up, corrupt. Lesson learnt, non destructive is awesome till you lose the file that handles all your edits. Now pondering how to move forward.
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twist said:
... With lightroom we place all our faith in 1 file playing nice.
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Very sorry to hear that :(
And that's very true. It's like single card slots. They are fine till one of your SD card corrupts.
We all know it's a possibility we continue to use it.
I should find a different solution. Because of lack of photography I don't even have the motivation to sort this stuff out.
 
nandbytes said:
Very sorry to hear that :(
And that's very true. It's like single card slots. They are fine till one of your SD card corrupts.
We all know it's a possibility we continue to use it.
I should find a different solution. Because of lack of photography I don't even get the motivation to sort this stuff out.
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I don't think it's just lack of motivation, I think it's just that there's no ideal solution. s*** fails, there are no guarantees... Even if you think you've backed it up. 90% of my shots edits over years are gone, sure I'll revisit and edit them to a higher standard but it will always bug me. I'm strict on keepers so it's not like 50% of them were crap.

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At the end of a year I go through that years photos and really cut them down to keepers, check the edits then when happy convert them all to jpeg and save those, RAWs get compressed and backed up also.
So worst case I'd lose a years edits if lightroom stopped working or the catalogue messed up.
 
nandbytes said:
I was looking on wex....
www.wexphotovideo.com

Lexar 128GB 1667x (250MB/Sec) Professional UHS-II SDXC Card | Wex Photo Video

www.wexphotovideo.com

They either have two variants or I guess better to believe the official website?

Even still the UHS-I card I linked above is slightly faster write speed for less money. I have two of those in 256GB for shooting landscapes and pixelshift on A7RIV.
Plus I have bunch of 128GB 280/260mb/s read/write tough cards from manfrotto. I can definitely tell the difference when I am shooting at 5-8fps.

I also have couple sandisk 300mb/s cards they are really nice too. but now I generally use the tough cards for most part.
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I suppose what I should be asking is how fast read do I need? I probably wouldn't burst shoot for more than 2 seconds, but then some of the video options are 100Mb/s.

EDIT: bits not bytes
 
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snerkler said:
Didn’t even know they did them. Just looked, £99 for 128gb 280/250mb/s direct from Manfrotto, or £199 on Amazon :eek:
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nandbytes said:
Looks like its on offer again then. pretty sure I paid £95 each direct from Manfrotto too.
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yep its on offer! great price for something that nearly the same speed as Sandisk for less than half price and also tough.
they are real tight fit in A7RIV though.
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Muchas gracias for this, I've ordered one. (y)
 
Are you guys being newbs and only running one catalogue :p
 
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