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

LeeRatters said:
As I said, imo the 35GM is the better all round lens. If I need wider I just shoot a panorama. I have the Riii myself, I don't use crop mode but I'm sure it'll still give enough pixels :)

24GM equals 24mm and 35mm

35GM equals 35mm and 50mm

Ish......
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I’ve looked on lensesforhire, £167 for 17 days and then I can send it back via RM postage once the wife brings it back to the UK, seems the best option. :)
 
Kieran_89 said:
I’ve looked on lensesforhire, £167 for 17 days and then I can send it back via RM postage once the wife brings it back to the UK, seems the best option. :)
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Is that including shipping and insurance? I've been caught out by that before, thinking it looks like a decent price but then there's another £25 or so added on for shipping.
 
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Sigma 35 f1.2 user here, I'd say that although focusing is a little slower than the 50GM, if anything it's optically better.
 
ancient_mariner said:
Sigma 35 f1.2 user here, I'd say that although focusing is a little slower than the 50GM, if anything it's optically better.
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I assume you mean the 35mm GM? The Siggy's twice the size and weight though :oops: :$
 
snerkler said:
Is that including shipping and insurance? I've been caught out by that before, thinking it looks like a decent price but then there's another £25 or so added on for shipping.
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Yes that’s everything included. :) I’ve put the order through and they’ve said they’ll give me a call tomorrow to confirm and it’s now saying I might have to put down a £1500 deposit as it’s my first time renting :rolleyes:
 
f/2.8 said:
I haven’t needed or wanted to use a grip since Jesus was a wee lad. Can do a wedding up to the speeches on one battery so a grip is pointless for me.
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I guess I am used to them and usually have at least one heavy lens on the go so they balance better with grips. They are also handy when your cameras are knocking against each other and give a wee bit more protection. The portrait controls are very handy too
 
snerkler said:
Out of interest do you find shooting panos with the 35mm you get an parallax effect? I’ve only done panos shooting with a wide angle and the parallax effect is a PITA.
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I've never noticed anything odd with anything I've shot. With a really close foreground subject too you might have to go the nodal route though.
 
Kieran_89 said:
I’ve looked on lensesforhire, £167 for 17 days and then I can send it back via RM postage once the wife brings it back to the UK, seems the best option. :)
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The trouble with that, is that you've just lost £167 to go towards actually buying a 35GM :) Because I'm pretty sure once you use it, you will want to own it.
 
LeeRatters said:
I've never noticed anything odd with anything I've shot. With a really close foreground subject too you might have to go the nodal route though.
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The what route? I’ll have to get googling :lol:
 
Is this the sort of parallax issue? Straight lines being rendered as curves?

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This was with a 35mm lens. If this or anything like it is the issue I think it's more to do with pivoting the lens than focal length. I've never tried to do anything about it but I believe you can do something about it with a nodal slide on your tripod which stops me dead as usually I'm not using a tripod.
 
I spent a few minutes looking for a picture I liked on a backup drive today, I'd seen it in a thread on this forum and decided that I liked it and wanted to find it and put it in my favourites folder which I often have on slide show. It took me a few minutes to find it but when I went to paste it in my favourites folder guess what? Do I want to overwrite the file already there? Looks like I've liked that picture for a while :D
 
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jonneymendoza said:
Yay my camera is apparently fixed!

But bad timing as they are not open on the weekend...

So I have to wait until next week
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Cool, does that mean you'll have it in time for your trip?
 
We've only got south Devon booked for June - with the family. So lots of X100f stuff I expect but taking the A7Riii for landscapes & any clear night skies we might get.

Then there's some sort of honeymoon to plan for later in the year...! We aren't going away, straight away.
 
woof woof said:
Enjoy! I hope you'll be posting some pictures?

I'm off to Thailand later in the year. Apart from our mini break in Holland the other week this will be my first holiday since 2019.
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I’d love to go to Thailand but the flight time puts me off, I need my six numbers to come up so I can go business class ;)
 
f/2.8 said:
I have been before top tip don’t bring your wife.
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We went more than 10 years ago. It was a long flight, with an 8 hour stop in Bahrain, and when we finally got to the hotel my wife went straight to bed. However new city - I had to get out and explore. Within 20 meters of the hotel door there were tuktuk drivers offering me "you like Thai massage? Pussy?" with a string of photos of the girls they had available. And that was how it continued. I told my wife when I got back that I wasn't going out alone again - just too much hassle, though zero temptation.

Interesting place for sure, though not as interesting as India, but a darn site cleaner.
 
ancient_mariner said:
We went more than 10 years ago. It was a long flight, with an 8 hour stop in Bahrain, and when we finally got to the hotel my wife went straight to bed. However new city - I had to get out and explore. Within 20 meters of the hotel door there were tuktuk drivers offering me "you like Thai massage? Pussy?" with a string of photos of the girls they had available. And that was how it continued. I told my wife when I got back that I wasn't going out alone again - just too much hassle, though zero temptation.

Interesting place for sure, though not as interesting as India, but a darn site cleaner.
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I have been twice once donkeys years ago with some mates and again with the missus about 12 years ago.

When I went with my mates one of our group decided only a couple of weeks before to come with us. He couldn’t get the same flight as us so ended up flying out by himself nearly a week before the rest of us.

When we arrived at the hotel he had left a message asking us to go straight to his room. So although we were all knackered we thought something was wrong we all headed up to his room. A girl opened his door and brought us into the room and there he was sitting in a hot tub with 12 girls living it up like Hugh Hefner. :ROFLMAO:

Was a mad trip one of our other mates brought a girl home with him and she stayed at his for 6 months. He went back to see her a little while after she went back and came home less than a week later with a different girl who also stayed for 6 months. He still lived with his mum and dad at the time. :ROFLMAO:

The trip with the wife was very different.
 
snerkler said:
I’d love to go to Thailand but the flight time puts me off, I need my six numbers to come up so I can go business class ;)
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You just have to try and take your mind to your happy place and let the time pass and try to enjoy the journey. I think there's so much to see and do in Thailand you need to do a lot of planning or hire a guide... Or marry one of them and let her be your guide.
 
For don't take the wife trips or even better if you are single... Kazakhstan. IMO probably the world's highest concentration of beautiful women plus a decent man shortage meaning you get approached even if you're already with a woman. I was mobbed. Wonderful photo opportunities too.
 
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Stopped for a quick photo of my chavmobile on the way back from a wedding the other night.

Have spent a bomb on this thing over the last while, recently did a dyno test with the club and now with a new Stage 2 custom map sitting at 430bhp.

It has had:

Mountune exhaust including downpipe and sports GPF, 5" Bull X exhaust tips, it ain't quiet
Mountune secondary intercooler
Mountune carbon rear intake and induction kit
Mountune cast inlet manifold
Mountune oil catch can kit
Uniclutch kit

Maxton front splitter, sideskirts, rear diffuser and spoiler extension
SiCo Dvelopments short shifter
A ton of cosmetic crap

Now ready for the Ford Fair :cool:

Have absolutely loved this car, will have to make a decision for next year if I carry on with and get the hybrid turbo and water injection for stage 3 taking it to over 500bhp or sell it on and start fresh with something else. There is very little else around that interests me without spending major ££££'s. I would like an RS6 but it's probably out of my price range realistically. I flip on changing it and getting something else to keeping it and buying a new daily every other day. :ROFLMAO:


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Spring at last:-

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Micro-four-thirds said:
Lol, I was only reading about this earlier today on bbc news, it’s an interesting concept. Thanks for sharing.
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Just looked at the BBC site and one of the concerns about chat GPT:
“Professor Gina Neff of Queen Mary University London tells the BBC that ChatGPT is "burning through energy", and the data centres used to power it consume more electricity in a year than 117 countries”
Probably small countries but still :oops: :$ If correct
 
nog said:
Just looked at the BBC site and one of the concerns about chat GPT:
“Professor Gina Neff of Queen Mary University London tells the BBC that ChatGPT is "burning through energy", and the data centres used to power it consume more electricity in a year than 117 countries”
Probably small countries but still :oops: :$ If correct
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Google is building a new data centre specially for AI in Norway, investing €600M in the site which covers 500 acres. The national grid has had to be rerouted several places in order to deliver the enormous amounts of energy needed to run the place. The Norwegian government has contributed that cost. There are worries locally about whether there will be enough power available for all the other businesses and inhabitants in winter when it's minus 10c...
 
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Ok, so everyone round here takes this photo...but how could I resist with the blossom and skies we've had today!

A7Cii, Nikon Series E 50/1.8 and a CPL. People hate on the series E but this copy belonging to my wife is great IMO.

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Low-res upload here as it's got my family in and I don't normally put my son online. Maybe I'll clone them out and put it on Flickr.
 
the_accidental said:
Ok, so everyone round here takes this photo...but how could I resist with the blossom and skies we've had today!

A7Cii, Nikon Series E 50/1.8 and a CPL. People hate on the series E but this copy belonging to my wife is great IMO.

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Low-res upload here as it's got my family in and I don't normally put my son online. Maybe I'll clone them out and put it on Flickr.
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I was there this morning. With 58 other photographers ;) Last year, I had it to myself :)
 
I thought about first thing but decided to wait for more sun on the tree and hope for some clouds in the sky, which paid off :)


(Also no way I was getting my wife and son on the bench first thing!)
 
Just a picture I took some time ago and recently rediscovered and decided I liked.

A7 and Pergear 35mm f1.4. Taken one morning on the way to church in November 2023.

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I sold that lens and I sort of regret it. It's a very small and light and very cheap 35mm f1.4 but I don't think it is really f1.4. I think it's more likely to be f1.6 or f1.8 or maybe even f2. This wasn't taken wide open and there's a good deal of sharpness, detail, colour and contrast. I have thought about buying another but I'll try and resist :D
 
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