arbitrage wrote:
400 v 600...if only one?...I'm not sure yet. I'm actively thinking on that question as I'm considering just keeping one of them. I find it simpler to not have to choose which one to take out on any given day.
As far as 1.3FW goes....the only thing I think may be a bit better is the system finding the eye when the bird is partially obstructed by vegetation, sticks. But I don't have 2 A1s to test out back to back, one on each FW so I can't really say for certain.
I didn't notice any obvious increase in keeper rate for perched or BIF after shooting 1.3FW for the past 3 days. It is a hard thing to evaluate as the A1 already has a very high success rate....Show more →
Appreciate the feedback. Choosing between two superb lenses can't be an easy decision to make. Good luck
Photo cross posted in the Sony FE Image Thread and taken at 7:25 PM.
Looking at our blooming White Dogwood white Bracts and flowers in the center of each of the 4 Bracts.
Cropped slightly from both sides and bottom, Tripod mounted A1 and Voigtlander 110mm f2.5 Macro Apo-Lanthar lens in FE mount; silent shutter. Leofoto MP-180S Focusing Rail used to position the camera on the tripod with 11" Variable Friction Arm attached to the rail to mount, postion, and aim the Ulanzi VL-49 RGB LED light to supplement the lighting (set to 5500 degrees K at 100 %).
ISO 400, f11, 1/50 Second (in some wind).
Exposure Corrected +0.18 Stops.
May 10, 2022
In my garden bed in front of my home; Breinigsville, PA.
Photo cross posted in the Sony FE Image Thread and taken at 12:40 PM.
Looking at much or most of the inside of a small church.
Hand Held relying on Camera IBIS, A1 and Voigtlander 50mm f2 Apo-Lanthar Asph, FE mount; silent shutter.
ISO 1600, F4, 1/60 Second.
Exposure Corrected -0.09 Stops.
For "fast" cards for my 2 A1s, I have 2 Sony 160GB Type A cards and 2 Sony 128GB SF-G Tough Cards (300mb read speed and 299mb write speed), saw B&H had a bunch of cards on sale and bought 2 Lexar 128GB 2000x cards (300mb read speed, 260mb write speed), the price was pretty good in my opinion so I bought 2.
Photo cross posted in the Sony FE Image Thread and taken at 6:04 PM.
Looking at roses from our front garden.
Cropped from the bottom, Tripod mounted A1 camera and Voigtlander 110mm f2.5 Macro Apo-Lanthar FE mount; silent shutter. 2 Macro Focusing rails were used to position the camera and lens on the tripod head and tripod. The lower focusing rail for the X-axis (left and right postioning) was the Leofoto MP-180S and the upper focusing rail for the Y-axis (front and back positioning) was the Swebo LS001.
ISO 200, f8, 1/40 Second (in some wind).
June 3, 2022
In my garden bed in front of my home; Breinigsville, PA.
For "fast" cards for my 2 A1s, I have 2 Sony 160GB Type A cards and 2 Sony 128GB SF-G Tough Cards (300mb read speed and 299mb write speed), saw B&H had a bunch of cards on sale and bought 2 Lexar 128GB 2000x cards (300mb read speed, 260mb write speed), the price was pretty good in my opinion so I bought 2.
Photo cross posted in the Sony FE Image Thread and taken at 10:58 AM.
Looking at the Sicily coast? from the Ferry between Messina on Sicily and the Mainland of Italy as we passed the Caronte & Tourist Ferry traveling in the opposite direction. The Trenitalia train that we rode from Taormina to Messina was loaded onto the Ferry. The Ferry ride across the Strait of Messina and mainland Italy is 3.2 miles. From there after the train was off loaded, we rode the train to Napoli (Naples).
Fairly Heavily Cropped, Hand Held, relying on Camera IBIS, A1 and Voigtlander 50mm f2 Apo-Lanthar Asph, FE mount; silent shutter.
ISO 100, f4, 1/1000 second.
March 18, 2022
On the Ferry from Messina to the Italian mainland, Sicily, Italy.
