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Fun With Sony Cameras

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jaree

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Re: Fun with the Sony A7 Series Cameras( all of them)

Views from Whiteface Mountain and Keene Valley, upstate New York.

A7 + assorted Leica lenses.









 

Bill Caulfeild-Browne

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Bill - Very nice! Would appreciate any feedback on using the Tamron 150-600 with A7ii handheld - what is the hit rate at longer focal lengths and how low can you go on the shutter speed?
Thanks Jaree!
This is a tough lens to handhold; I use it with a tripod or, more often, leaning across a fence, resting against a tree trunk or resting on my partially open car window. Used like that 1/125th is easily possible at 600 mm. I have gone as low as 1/30th but that's hit & miss!

The lens is very sharp at 500 mm, a bit soft at the corners at 600, but for wildlife (my use) that really doesn't matter.

Hope this helps - the lens is a heck of a good buy!
 

jaree

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Re: Fun with the Sony A7 Series Cameras( all of them)

Thanks Bill, your field notes certainly help. 1/125 at 600mm is very impressive. I don't have much experience with long lenses and only recently tried 400 MM (Leica R 80-200 at 200mm + 2X APO Extender) and it certainly wasn't easy even on a tripod - even a slight whiff of air and the image would shake in magnified live-view.

The Tamron price is certainly very competitive. I will rent it one of these days when I go on a road-trip.
 

scho

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Just trying the photomerge function in LRcc. Two shot pano using A7r+Cambo Actus+Rodenstock 55mm APO-Grandagon. Only problem is the layers are not preserved so can't make manual adjustments.

 

scho

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Re: Fun with the Sony A7 Series Cameras( all of them)

Just trying the photomerge function in LRcc. Two shot pano using A7r+Cambo Actus+Rodenstock 55mm APO-Grandagon. Only problem is the layers are not preserved so can't make manual adjustments.
Another with same setup, but 4 shots of some old sugar maples stitched in LRcc photomerge and then cropped before exporting jpeg to Flickr.

 

Barry Haines

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This is not something I would normally do but in this situation I wanted the perspective compression of a much longer FL lens (70-200mm is my longest lens).
The FE 70-200mm lens at 171mm FL handheld (I don’t particularly like the IQ much at the 200mm FL, not even cropped!), this has then been heavily cropped down to just 8MP from the A7R 36MP camera.
Please click on “LARGER” link below.




LARGER
 
Re: Fun with the Sony A7 Series Cameras( all of them)

WOW, some very awesome works everyone! I was impressed with the current FM posts, but these took it to the next level.

Just received this lens, going all SOOC to evaluate its color rendition on my A7s.mod. My wife told me it gave a very classic look overall. I don't see any clinical-ness. Happy shooter :D. The first batch at the ABQ Botanical Garden:

Leica 50 APO



















 

etrigan63

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jfirneno

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Re: Fun with the Sony A7 Series Cameras( all of them)

One more, messing around with a speedlight, gaffer's tape, an umbrella reflector and my son.


(This may become his new online avatar :D)
Carlos:

Congratulations on your son's new avatar. I've always envied the one you use (and the secret underground lair where it was made). After all if family photography isn't fun then why bother?
 

etrigan63

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Carlos:

Congratulations on your son's new avatar. I've always envied the one you use (and the secret underground lair where it was made). After all if family photography isn't fun then why bother?
Thanks. These are always fun to make and are my favorite kind of portrait.
 

pegelli

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^^ not surprised you had to cool these shots down a bit, my experience with AWB and tungsten light is that usually it's setting it way too yellow.

Nice atmosphere by the way, and the colours all look quite nice, both the blues in the water and sky combined with the warmer tones of the tiles, light and skin coulour


Some chimes I shot a few weeks ago

A850 + Helios 44-2 (58/2)
 

scho

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Re: Fun with the Sony A7 Series Cameras( all of them)

First walkabout on the waterfront trail with the new FE 28mm on my A7r.






Look at full size image and tell me what you see in the sky. I thought at first it was sensor dust, but it only appears in this image. Mayflies?






The home town hockey hero. He went directly from high school to pro hockey.

 
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