Living in 'cloudland' like I do Milky Way is a rare event. Working graveyard in the hospital and the Moon make it even harder to find a clear Moonless night. Then there is the moisture which acts like millions of little lenses
So when I get the change I have to jump on it. This last week was good Milky Way wise. Here is another, an experiment.
Sometimes the hike to the spot is long, and of course often in the dark. Lighter kit is a plus. The experiment was using the Sigma 16mm F1.4 and for my level of Milky Way photography and my backs ability to carry heavy loads I was genuinely pleased. ISO 2500 F1.4 15sec. on the a9
Well thanks. I've flashed sitting bierds (off camera flash I think is the way) and only tried one in flight.
We even have a MagMod system. I just don't like flash.
Super common here. Usually 10-15 in the backyard on any given day in summer.
Also, I found the Metabones T v, look for an update. Nothing. Matters not, the Sigma
is a treasure.
Sony ILCE-9
DT 400mm F4 SAM
ƒ/5.6 400.0 mm 1/500 400
I saw a bold claim today that the next A9 series camera, called the A9R, will be 96MP and shoot 5fps, with stacked sensor, zero blackout, exactly same as A9 just 4x the pixels and thus 4x lower fps. If true, what a cropability enhanced beast that would be. God they'd need to finally offer a lossless compressed RAW though, imagine the monster file sizes. Also need to offer, crop modes for RAW, with no DR loss.
Pixel Perfect wrote:
I saw a bold claim today that the next A9 series camera, called the A9R, will be 96MP and shoot 5fps, with stacked sensor, zero blackout, exactly same as A9 just 4x the pixels and thus 4x lower fps. If true, what a cropability enhanced beast that would be. God they'd need to finally offer a lossless compressed RAW though, imagine the monster file sizes. Also need to offer, crop modes for RAW, with no DR loss.
I'd be much happier with half that resolution and 10FPS....I wouldn't buy a 5FPS camera anymore...been down that rabbit hole with the 5DSR and didn't enjoy it. I really hope Sony doesn't go that way with the A9R....unless they give me an A9 tech APS-C camera to make up for it
Pixel Perfect wrote:
I saw a bold claim today that the next A9 series camera, called the A9R, will be 96MP and shoot 5fps, with stacked sensor, zero blackout, exactly same as A9 just 4x the pixels and thus 4x lower fps. If true, what a cropability enhanced beast that would be. God they'd need to finally offer a lossless compressed RAW though, imagine the monster file sizes. Also need to offer, crop modes for RAW, with no DR loss.
I'd be more than good with 30-36mpx and 12-15fps on a cropper. Just NO blackout and same AF/AF-c as a9.
I made the mistake of using the A7Rii in uncompressed one night shooting 40 subs of The Running Man Nebula. Those files choked Deep Sky Stacker! What saved me was jpgs on the other card.
I learned something too from my 5Dsr days. Pull a show and get crap unfixable noise, 5ps won't work in this centurey, and you CAN get too many pixels even on a full frame. But it is rare I'm glued to a tripod shooting a landscape.
MedicineMan404 wrote:
I tell you the hawk was 50 yards minimum.
I believe you but it turned out pretty well....I've always found I can crop deeper into a lower MP file from a 1DX/2 / A9 type sensor compared to a higher MP sensor...especially as ISO rises...still more MPs will most times be better but as a % of the frame that you can crop and be happy, the lower MP sensors seem to have some advantage.
What I liked was the phrase "crop ability challenged" as I always think of my A9/1DX in that way shooting the birds
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cropability challenged 