Re: Fun with the A7/7R
Few things I loved while shooting this. I use TrueDoFPro by George Douvos which is an excellent app (as are all three of his DoF apps). For this shot I needed to set focus at 20m (ISO100, 1/250 f/5.6) to achieve sharp focus from 10m to infinity. The trees were around 20m and the FE55 is sharpest over more of the frame at f/5.6 with more than acceptable vignetting. The A7R I think is a non linear focus barrel to focus shift. So slowly turning the barrel in M focus mode gives you very fine adjustment to be able to get exactly 20m focus point. A faster turn seems to swoosh you out/in quicker per degree. At least that's my impression. This extra "slower you turn the more accurate you are" behaviour is welcome with gloves on (and you should try this shot without gloves!) and something not possible with purely manual mechanical coupling.
Also the zebra clipping and tilting screen again much improved my shooting comfort, I just dialled shutter speed almost carelessly until they were only showing in the tiniest of areas and that's that, pre-chimping is becoming a very capable exposure method for me these days.
This is prepared for an A2 print in my gallery and the down sizing here is crude to say the least (artefacts on the mountain to sky transition etc). The amount of detail and size of print file is staggering - I'm very very excited to print it this weekend - and THAT is why I shoot, the excitement of the final framed and hung image.
There's so much detail in the shadows, in the mid distance snow covered pines that I'm almost tempted to faux HDR it to death with the shadow adjustment - but this is how it felt and just because I CAN does't mean I should - although it's a lot of fun to 'see what's there' and good to know when your out on the next shoot how mush leeway you have down there.
Thanks again for the comments, it is encouraging even if I do it for myself and for the viewers reaction on the print.
Thanks Marc and everyone else for the kind words. Much appreciated.Well worth it!
Stunning image, well done, well done indeed.
Thanks for sharing,
- Marc
Few things I loved while shooting this. I use TrueDoFPro by George Douvos which is an excellent app (as are all three of his DoF apps). For this shot I needed to set focus at 20m (ISO100, 1/250 f/5.6) to achieve sharp focus from 10m to infinity. The trees were around 20m and the FE55 is sharpest over more of the frame at f/5.6 with more than acceptable vignetting. The A7R I think is a non linear focus barrel to focus shift. So slowly turning the barrel in M focus mode gives you very fine adjustment to be able to get exactly 20m focus point. A faster turn seems to swoosh you out/in quicker per degree. At least that's my impression. This extra "slower you turn the more accurate you are" behaviour is welcome with gloves on (and you should try this shot without gloves!) and something not possible with purely manual mechanical coupling.
Also the zebra clipping and tilting screen again much improved my shooting comfort, I just dialled shutter speed almost carelessly until they were only showing in the tiniest of areas and that's that, pre-chimping is becoming a very capable exposure method for me these days.
This is prepared for an A2 print in my gallery and the down sizing here is crude to say the least (artefacts on the mountain to sky transition etc). The amount of detail and size of print file is staggering - I'm very very excited to print it this weekend - and THAT is why I shoot, the excitement of the final framed and hung image.
There's so much detail in the shadows, in the mid distance snow covered pines that I'm almost tempted to faux HDR it to death with the shadow adjustment - but this is how it felt and just because I CAN does't mean I should - although it's a lot of fun to 'see what's there' and good to know when your out on the next shoot how mush leeway you have down there.
Thanks again for the comments, it is encouraging even if I do it for myself and for the viewers reaction on the print.