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Would you buy a GM lens?
They're too big and too heavy for me. My kit right now is the Sony 28/2 and the Contax G 45/2 and 90/2.8, and I'm addicted to the extreme portability. I'd love to see more prime FE options with AF in the 2-2.8 range with size and quality as a primary design emphasis. I don't need f1.4 or even... -
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Techart adapter and Contax G question
I had the same issues with washed out/white ghosty patches with my Contax G 90mm and a cheap fotodiox adapter. It got somewhat worse the further I was stopped down, as well. Gaffer's tape over the reflective parts of the adapter mostly solved it, but not completely. The flocking paper as... -
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Techart adapter and Contax G question
It came with the original screw on hood, about an inch and a half long, and that shot was taken with it on. Doesn't seem to matter at all though. It's definitely not typical flare--sun doesn't need to be anywhere near the frame for it to happen, and can in fact be completely out of sight... -
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Techart adapter and Contax G question
How does the techart do with flare cause by adapter reflections with the 90mm? Took delivery of a 90mm last week, and the flare is extremely bad with my cheapo MF fotodiox adapters on my A7R2. There doesn't even need to be a lightsource anywhere near the frame for it to happen. Example: -
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Techart adapter and Contax G question
Not exactly on topic, but wanted to give a big thumbs up to the Contax 45mm with Fotasy manual focus adapter (cost, about $40). I used it as part of a lightweight hiking kit in Utah last week on the A7RII, and was extremely impressed with the results. Great great lens. The focus ring on the... -
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Uncompressed 14bit RAW
DPR did exact a/b shot comparisons, and the article made clear, reading between the lines, that's it's optional. Not to worry. -
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Uncompressed 14bit RAW
Just posted this elsewhere, reposting here: For anybody buying memory cards for A7RII that might shoot video, just make sure you get the right class. Even if a card is capable in terms of write speed, Sony won't let you activate the mode if you don't meet the requirements below: XAVC S 4k 100M... -
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Uncompressed 14bit RAW
Not true, Jim. Long exposure star trails, for instance--lots of folks shoot them. It's reasonable to expect that cameras, in 2015, costing thousands of dollars, be able to handle them without terrible artifacting. Sony's lossy compression can't/couldn't. Shots of bright edges at night; artifacts... -
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Uncompressed 14bit RAW
Well, I'm very happy to have the option to shoot lossless with the A7RII, even if it's uncompressed. I assume it was easier to implement this way and probably much less computationally expensive, for a camera that's already quite challenged in the speed and battery life department. I'm not... -
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Batis 25 and Batis 85 - Availability and Experiences
Got a chance to handle a Zeiss Rep's Batis 25 at Samy's here in L.A. this afternoon. Shorter and much lighter than I had imagined. Pretty pretty tempting... -
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A7rII with Canon AF database reference.
Looks like metabones .43 firmware allows the 400 f5.6 to focus as well--user in thread here reports .41 failed, .43 successful; no other detail. Hurrah for .43? -
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A7RII 15-30s milky way exposures from Joshua Tree
Graham: I think the colors and contrast from the 28mm f2 are excellent. Would be hard for me to say where it stands WRT the Rokinon 14mm without more outings, but both seem nice enough. Infinity focus is a little easier with the Rokinon's hard infinity stop. There's a good review of the 28mm... -
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A7RII 15-30s milky way exposures from Joshua Tree
Thanks all, you are too kind. And thank you for the tip Jack--the C1 single pixel removal feature works remarkably well! -
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Uncompressed 14bit RAW
Terrific news. Kudos for Sony to listening to their users on this issue, even if it was a quite vocal minority and took, uhh, a while. These sensors deserve uncompromised RAW output, and now we'll finally get it. -
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A7RII 15-30s milky way exposures from Joshua Tree
I've read quite a bit about how the A7RII shows thermal noise at longer exposure times. So, I headed to Joshua Tree with a couple of wide angle lenses for some milky way shots (my first ever.) Went fairly well. Below are some botched raws (badly framed, perhaps underexposed, etc.) that may... -
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A7RII DxOmarked
Yeah, very nifty technology, Sony picked that up from Aptina, IIRC. So at low ISO, A7RII is very good, but not the ultimate DR machine like the D810 is, but the Sony has a decent advantage at higher ISOs. Sony has built a pretty great all-arounder, it seems. What do the slight to moderate... -
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Ideal camera bag for the A7RII kit
Check out the Think Tank Retrospective 5. A bit heavy, and I'm not sure it's large enough for the lenses you mention, but I like mine. Maybe the 7, if 5 is too small. Picked up a nice condition 5, in pinestone, missing the rain cover, for $53 delivered on ebay. $144 new, so, good deals are... -
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Seeing any Posterization issues with A7r ll?
I think that's unlikely...they would at least have to ditch the delta compression, or it would be an utterly pointless exercise. Presenting the same lossy data, in an uncompressed format, would solve nothing, and Sony knows that. They might still cook the RAW (e.g. we might still have orange... -
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An interesting Review of a7rII
FWIW, E.J. Peiker over at naturescapes, who is always extremely tuned in to technical issues, said he's getting an average of 234 shots per charge with IBIS off, airplane mode on, using a 50/50 mix of EVF and LCD, and 2 minute sleep, and camera completely off while doing something other than... -
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Leica 24 3.8 on sony a7 testing
Wow...if these are 'soft corners', sign me up! I've never shot Leica, but these look damn good to me.