p.111 #1 · Sony A7 and A7r Full Frame with Canon Lenses
RobDickinson wrote:
I probably need more time with an a7r but the viewfinder seems useless for any composition, the controls seem like they would be difficult in darkness especially without using a light, even worse with gloves. And not convinced its that great at 3200 -6400 as the 6d would be. Plus weak batteries etc.
Seems like a great camera for every other landscape situation though.
I think it will do fine for night photography the way you described. The big test will be with stacked 5-minute captures using the Astrotrac. It should perform similarly to the D800E.
p.111 #2 · Sony A7 and A7r Full Frame with Canon Lenses
OK cool well I will be upgrading the 5d2 to 6d before I get the Sony, if I find I can survive with just the Sony will consider options then, probably want 2 bodies anyhow.
p.111 #4 · Sony A7 and A7r Full Frame with Canon Lenses
RobDickinson wrote:
OK cool well I will be upgrading the 5d2 to 6d before I get the Sony, if I find I can survive with just the Sony will consider options then, probably want 2 bodies anyhow.
Thx Fred
Good choice. The Canon 6D is great for astrophotography. I had mine converted.
p.111 #6 · Sony A7 and A7r Full Frame with Canon Lenses
RobDickinson wrote:
I probably need more time with an a7r but the viewfinder seems useless for any composition, the controls seem like they would be difficult in darkness especially without using a light, even worse with gloves. And not convinced its that great at 3200 -6400 as the 6d would be. Plus weak batteries etc.
Seems like a great camera for every other landscape situation though.
I can agree with your point in regard to use some of the control buttons with gloves. The MF-critical C1 button can't be pressed with gloves easily. Battery lifetime especially in cold temperatures outside is short. You need to rely on at least one spare charged battery. Can't comment on the high ISO performance, this is something I didn't try yet (as well as video which I likely won't use at all).
Funny - the information on those sites is much better than what his book provides. I had his book for a short time, and felt it was more a general guide to learn photography than it contained useful information to cover the functions of the A7(R) cameras. I returned the book.
p.111 #9 · Sony A7 and A7r Full Frame with Canon Lenses
Klaus Priebe wrote:
Me too. Not sure what is going on with them.
Re : Protostar flock order
I emailed them on Wednesday to find out what happened to my (1 week old) order. I got a reply this morning that they had been out of stock and it would ship today and I'd get it on Monday .. we'll see
p.111 #11 · Sony A7 and A7r Full Frame with Canon Lenses
Just to be another voice in the crowd....
.. am currently on the initial weeks of switching from a Canon 1DmkII to the A7. IQ seems to be quite a bit better, noise quality lower, of course focusing so far and speed of shooting, adjusting everything, etc. has been the biggest change.
The Metabones III is giving me AF w/ my 70-200L, only manual focus with my 28-70/2.8L, and is too tight and therefore incompatible with my 17-35/2.8L. B&H is sending me another copy of the Metabones to see if it is looser and has part-to-part variability, but it's a bit scary when my entire glass inventory is dependent on the Metabones. The 550ex flash is also triggerable but completely manual, so all-in-all I think it requires a slow transition of all the lens/accessories to Sony over time. In other words, the low-cost appeal of transitioning to this non-Canon system seems to only be temporary and not a permanent solution...
p.111 #13 · Sony A7 and A7r Full Frame with Canon Lenses
supermario343 wrote:
Does anyone have any examples of the a7r with canon 24-70L II? That would be my combo for landscapes if I do end up buying this body. Thanks!
p.111 #15 · Sony A7 and A7r Full Frame with Canon Lenses
secondclaw: What's up in the last photo? I can't figure out if the skin smoothing is hyper-aggressive noise reduction, a pound of makeup (for post-processing reasons) on an already smooth face, or a combination of both?
Something similar in the generally-skin-hues in the pier shot too. Is this processing or camera?
p.111 #16 · Sony A7 and A7r Full Frame with Canon Lenses
I have to take a look at the original, I think this was at ISO 800. I don't go any skin processing, but maybe noise reduction was too aggressive.
On the pier shots, and most of these, I've been toggling between Adobe and camera color profiles, all seem very different to my eyes. I haven't had time to build my own profile yet.
p.111 #17 · Sony A7 and A7r Full Frame with Canon Lenses
secondclaw wrote:
I have to take a look at the original, I think this was at ISO 800. I don't go any skin processing, but maybe noise reduction was too aggressive.
On the pier shots, and most of these, I've been toggling between Adobe and camera color profiles, all seem very different to my eyes. I haven't had time to build my own profile yet.
Haha...I thought the woman in the last photo was a mannequin.
p.111 #18 · Sony A7 and A7r Full Frame with Canon Lenses
gvg45 wrote:
Haha...I thought the woman in the last photo was a mannequin.
Nope ... she did have a lot of smoothing makeup, and I didn't really do any post processing on the photo though applied a bit more noise reduction. I am going to reprocess it a bit and see if it helps. At the store I tried the FE35 and FE55 on the demo camera, but i couldn't use my own cards to compare against Canon lens.
p.111 #19 · Sony A7 and A7r Full Frame with Canon Lenses
secondclaw wrote:
Nope ... she did have a lot of smoothing makeup, and I didn't really do any post processing on the photo though applied a bit more noise reduction. I am going to reprocess it a bit and see if it helps. At the store I tried the FE35 and FE55 on the demo camera, but i couldn't use my own cards to compare against Canon lens.
Don't be worry with those comments...A7/A7R is good enough for anyone who wants greatest IQ in one small package....and it works well with canon lenses. Enjoys
