Here are my first impressions and some sample pictures:
1) It yields higher resolution based on my pixel peeping
2) It works fine as far as I can tell with my ts17 and ts24 which is the main reason I bought it to match with. I was worried that the edge fixes sony had implemented to fix extreme light angles might help rangerfinder lens but hurt regular lens. I could not find any distortion from this affect. So it passed the most important challenge for me. Including shifting to extremes and merging.
3) All my zeiss lens worked great 25/2, 15/2.8, 35/1.4. In fact I think with less vignetting. So again, it did great on with my eos mount zeiss\'s. No visible vignetting.
4) All my ef lens that I tried worked - 24-105 focussed and stabilized, 100-400 focussed and stabilized, 24-70 v1 focussed, 17-40L focusses, 70-300 5.6 focussed and stabilized, 50/1.8 (but no focus). I used with metabones III. But it seemed really slow to focus. My impression is a bit slower but comparable to than the same lens on my eosm with adapter. The 85/1.8v2 worked but it would only permit me to go to f1.3 not f1.2 - strange.
5) As expected it chews batteries. I can get 1000 or more pictures with 5diii but way less on a7r.
6) It features feel like the Russion version of the 5diii. It all works but not smoothly
- it seems to have more vibration on shutter release than the 5diii on mirror lockup.
- it does not time off to save battery easily or at least I have not found it easily
- I found a infared remote shutter release for alpha and of course I can\'t get it to work
- finding the magnify on liveview was tiresome - the manual is useless and cryptic
- I cannot sync for remote shutter release with my iphone 4s - don\'t know if not supported or just can\'t figure out - no manual
- The canon wired remote shutter has an easy plug in. The sony equivalent feels like it will break at first slight touch. Ditto on sd card cover and battery cover.
7) The liveview focus did not seem to have a much resolution as my 5diii. Could be wrong.
8) The histogram implemenation is way too small compared to the 5diii and thus it makes it difficult to get the exposure right wthout multiple trys
9) You can download the sony raw image processor. It works and stops working randomly. Mac Tower 8core, 32GB 10.6. I don\'t know why but it is frustrating. Eventually you will get through the conversions if you restart from where it stops and freezes. Aperture does not have raw converter yet. Nor does cs6.
10) There is no red light to indicate you are in the middle of a long exposure. In addition its hard to tell where you are in the sequence when you do an AEB - 3 AEB sort of makes a galloping noise and you have to hold it down to the end for it to complete its cycle. The 5diii was more intuitive with a red light on during exposure and 1 noise per shutter.
11) As noted elsewhere, using an L plate to be able to shoot portrait and landscape without turning the tripod head sideways, is yet to be perfected. The generic L plate I found, did not permit the body to be taken off the adapter because the turned body was too close to the L plate. Having to srew the l plate on and off to use the camera without the L plate is a pain. I have ordered a spacer for the adapter to give it more height and hopefull this solves my problem. This will be solved soon by someone responding to the market (Kirk, RRS, ...:?) but as of now, its not clear who.
Here are my first impressions and some sample pictures:
1) It yields higher resolution based on my pixel peeping
2) It works fine as far as I can tell with my ts17 and ts24 which is the main reason I bought it to match with. I was worried that the edge fixes sony had implemented to fix extreme light angles might help rangerfinder lens but hurt regular lens. I could not find any distortion from this affect. So it passed the most important challenge for me. Including shifting to extremes and merging.
3) All my zeiss lens worked great 25/2, 15/2.8, 35/1.4. In fact I think with less vignetting. So again, it did great on with my eos mount zeiss\'s. No visible vignetting.
4) All my ef lens that I tried worked - 24-105 focussed and stabilized, 100-400 focussed and stabilized, 24-70 v1 focussed, 17-40L focusses, 70-300 5.6 focussed and stabilized, 50/1.8 (but no focus). I used with metabones III. But it seemed really slow to focus. My impression is a bit slower but comparable to than the same lens on my eosm with adapter. The 85/1.8v2 worked but it would only permit me to go to f1.3 not f1.2 - strange.
5) As expected it chews batteries. I can get 1000 or more pictures with 5diii but way less on a7r.
6) It features feel like the Russion version of the 5diii. It all works but not smoothly
- it seems to have more vibration on shutter release than the 5diii on mirror lockup.
- it does not time off to save battery easily or at least I have not found it easily
- I found a infared remote shutter release for alpha and of course I can\'t get it to work
- finding the magnify on liveview was tiresome - the manual is useless and cryptic
- I cannot sync for remote shutter release with my iphone 4s - don\'t know if not supported or just can\'t figure out - no manual
- The canon wired remote shutter has an easy plug in. The sony equivalent feels like it will break at first slight touch. Ditto on sd card cover and battery cover.
7) The liveview focus did not seem to have a much resolution as my 5diii. Could be wrong.
8) The histogram implemenation is way too small compared to the 5diii and thus it makes it difficult to get the exposure right wthout multiple trys
9) You can download the sony raw image processor. It works and stops working randomly. Mac Tower 8core, 32GB 10.6. I don\'t know why but it is frustrating. Eventually you will get through the conversions if you restart from where it stops and freezes. Aperture does not have raw converter yet. Nor does cs6.
10) There is no red light to indicate you are in the middle of a long exposure. In addition its hard to tell where you are in the sequence when you do an AEB - 3 AEB sort of makes a galloping noise and you have to hold it down to the end for it to complete its cycle. The 5diii was more intuitive with a red light on during exposure and 1 noise per shutter.
Here are my first impressions and some sample pictures:
1) It yields higher resolution based on my pixel peeping
2) It works fine as far as I can tell with my ts17 and ts24 which is the main reason I bought it to match with. I was worried that the edge fixes sony had implemented to fix extreme light angles might help rangerfinder lens but hurt regular lens. I could not find any distortion from this affect. So it passed the most important challenge for me. Including shifting to extremes and merging.
3) All my zeiss lens worked great 25/2, 15/2.8, 35/1.4. In fact I think with less vignetting. So again, it did great on with my eos mount zeiss\'s. No visible vignetting.
4) All my ef lens that I tried worked - 24-105 focussed and stabilized, 100-400 focussed and stabilized, 24-70 v1 focussed, 17-40L focusses, 70-300 5.6 focussed and stabilized, 50/1.8 (but no focus). I used with metabones III. But it seemed really slow to focus. My impression is a bit slower but comparable to than the same lens on my eosm with adapter. The 85/1.8v2 worked but it would only permit me to go to f1.3 not f1.2 - strange.
5) As expected it chews batteries. I can get 1000 or more pictures with 5diii but way less on a7r.
6) It features feel like the Russion version of the 5diii. It all works but not smoothly
- it seems to have more vibration on shutter release than the 5diii on mirror lockup.
- it does not time off to save battery easily or at least I have not found it easily
- I found a infared remote shutter release for alpha and of course I can\'t get it to work
- finding the magnify on liveview was tiresome - the manual is useless and cryptic
- I cannot sync for remote shutter release with my iphone 4s - don\'t know if not supported or just can\'t figure out - no manual
- The canon wired remote shutter has an easy plug in. The sony equivalent feels like it will break at first slight touch. Ditto on sd card cover and battery cover.
7) The liveview focus did not seem to have a much resolution as my 5diii. Could be wrong.
8) The histogram implemenation is way too small compared to the 5diii and thus it makes it difficult to get the exposure right wthout multiple trys
9) You can download the sony raw image processor. It works and stops working randomly. Mac Tower 8core, 32GB 10.6. I don\'t know why but it is frustrating. Eventually you will get through the conversions if you restart from where it stops and freezes. Aperture does not have raw converter yet. Nor does cs6.
Here are my first impressions and some sample pictures:
1) It yields higher resolution based on my pixel peeping
2) It works fine as far as I can tell with my ts17 and ts24 which is the main reason I bought it to match with. I was worried that the edge fixes sony had implemented to fix extreme light angles might help rangerfinder lens but hurt regular lens. I could not find any distortion from this affect. So it passed the most important challenge for me. Including shifting to extremes and merging.
3) All my zeiss lens worked great 25/2, 15/2.8, 35/1.4. In fact I think with less vignetting. So again, it did great on with my eos mount zeiss\'s. No visible vignetting.
4) All my ef lens that I tried worked - 24-105 focussed and stabilized, 100-400 focussed and stabilized, 24-70 v1 focussed, 70-300 5.6 focussed and stabilized, 50/1.8 (but no focus). I used with metabones III. But it seemed really slow to focus. My impression is a bit slower but comparable to than the same lens on my eosm with adapter. The 85/1.8v2 worked but it would only permit me to go to f1.3 not f1.2 - strange.
5) As expected it chews batteries. I can get 1000 or more pictures with 5diii but way less on a7r.
6) It features feel like the Russion version of the 5diii. It all works but not smoothly
- it seems to have more vibration on shutter release than the 5diii on mirror lockup.
- it does not time off to save battery easily or at least I have not found it easily
- I found a infared remote shutter release for alpha and of course I can\'t get it to work
- finding the magnify on liveview was tiresome - the manual is useless and cryptic
- I cannot sync for remote shutter release with my iphone 4s - don\'t know if not supported or just can\'t figure out - no manual
- The canon wired remote shutter has an easy plug in. The sony equivalent feels like it will break at first slight touch. Ditto on sd card cover and battery cover.
7) The liveview focus did not seem to have a much resolution as my 5diii. Could be wrong.
8) The histogram implemenation is way too small compared to the 5diii and thus it makes it difficult to get the exposure right wthout multiple trys
9) You can download the sony raw image processor. It works and stops working randomly. Mac Tower 8core, 32GB 10.6. I don\'t know why but it is frustrating. Eventually you will get through the conversions if you restart from where it stops and freezes. Aperture does not have raw converter yet. Nor does cs6.
Here are my first impressions and some sample pictures:
1) It yields higher resolution based on my pixel peeping
2) It works fine as far as I can tell with my ts17 and ts24 which is the main reason I bought it to match with. I was worried that the edge fixes sony had implemented to fix extreme light angles might help rangerfinder lens but hurt regular lens. I could not find any distortion from this affect. So it passed the most important challenge for me. Including shifting to extremes and merging.
3) All my zeiss lens worked great 25/2, 15/2.8, 35/1.4. In fact I think with less vignetting. So again, it did great on with my eos mount zeiss\'s. No visible vignetting.
4) All my ef lens that I tried worked - 24-105 focussed and stabilized, 100-400 focussed and stabilized, 24-70 v1 focussed, 70-300 5.6 focussed and stabilized, 50/1.8 (but no focus). I used with metabones III. But it seemed really slow to focus. My impression is a bit slower but comparable to than the same lens on my eosm with adapter.
5) As expected it chews batteries. I can get 1000 or more pictures with 5diii but way less on a7r.
6) It features feel like the Russion version of the 5diii. It all works but not smoothly
- it seems to have more vibration on shutter release than the 5diii on mirror lockup.
- it does not time off to save battery easily or at least I have not found it easily
- I found a infared remote shutter release for alpha and of course I can\'t get it to work
- finding the magnify on liveview was tiresome - the manual is useless and cryptic
- I cannot sync for remote shutter release with my iphone 4s - don\'t know if not supported or just can\'t figure out - no manual
- The canon wired remote shutter has an easy plug in. The sony equivalent feels like it will break at first slight touch. Ditto on sd card cover and battery cover.
7) The liveview focus did not seem to have a much resolution as my 5diii. Could be wrong.
8) The histogram implemenation is way too small compared to the 5diii and thus it makes it difficult to get the exposure right wthout multiple trys
9) You can download the sony raw image processor. It works and stops working randomly. Mac Tower 8core, 32GB 10.6. I don\'t know why but it is frustrating. Eventually you will get through the conversions if you restart from where it stops and freezes. Aperture does not have raw converter yet. Nor does cs6.
Here are my first impressions and some sample pictures:
1) It yields higher resolution based on my pixel peeping
2) It works fine as far as I can tell with my ts17 and ts24 which is the main reason I bought it to match with. I was worried that the edge fixes sony had implemented to fix extreme light angles might help rangerfinder lens but hurt regular lens. I could not find any distortion from this affect. So it passed the most important challenge for me. Including shifting to extremes and merging.
3) All my zeiss lens worked great 25/2, 15/2.8, 35/1.4. In fact I think with less vignetting. So again, it did great on with my eos mount zeiss\'s. No visible vignetting.
4) All my ef lens that I tried worked - 24-105 focussed and stabilized, 100-400 focussed and stabilized, 24-70, 70-300 5.6 focussed and stabilized, 50/1.8 (but no focus). I used with metabones III. But it seemed really slow to focus. My impression is a bit slower but comparable to than the same lens on my eosm with adapter.
5) As expected it chews batteries. I can get 1000 or more pictures with 5diii but way less on a7r.
6) It features feel like the Russion version of the 5diii. It all works but not smoothly
- it seems to have more vibration on shutter release than the 5diii on mirror lockup.
- it does not time off to save battery easily or at least I have not found it easily
- I found a infared remote shutter release for alpha and of course I can\'t get it to work
- finding the magnify on liveview was tiresome - the manual is useless and cryptic
- I cannot sync for remote shutter release with my iphone 4s - don\'t know if not supported or just can\'t figure out - no manual
- The canon wired remote shutter has an easy plug in. The sony equivalent feels like it will break at first slight touch. Ditto on sd card cover and battery cover.
7) The liveview focus did not seem to have a much resolution as my 5diii. Could be wrong.
8) The histogram implemenation is way too small compared to the 5diii and thus it makes it difficult to get the exposure right wthout multiple trys
9) You can download the sony raw image processor. It works and stops working randomly. Mac Tower 8core, 32GB 10.6. I don\'t know why but it is frustrating. Eventually you will get through the conversions if you restart from where it stops and freezes. Aperture does not have raw converter yet. Nor does cs6.
Here are my first impressions and some sample pictures:
1) It yields higher resolution based on my pixel peeping
2) It works fine as far as I can tell with my ts17 and ts24 which is the main reason I bought it to match with. I was worried that the edge fixes sony had implemented to fix extreme light angles might help rangerfinder lens but hurt regular lens. I could not find any distortion from this affect. So it passed the most important challenge for me. Including shifting to extremes and merging.
3) All my zeiss lens worked great 25/2, 15/2.8, 35/1.4. In fact I think with less vignetting. So again, it did great on with my eos mount zeiss\'s. No visible vignetting.
4) All my ef lens that I tried worked - 24-105 focussed and stabilized, 100-400 focussed and stabilized, 24-70, 70-300 5.6 focussed and stabilized, 50/1.8 (but no focus). I used with metabones III. But it seemed really slow to focus. My impression is a bit slower but comparable to than the same lens on my eosm with adapter.
5) As expected it chews batteries. I can get 1000 or more pictures with 5diii but way less on a7r.
6) It features feel like the Russion version of the 5diii. It all works but not smoothly
- it seems to have more vibration on shutter release than the 5diii on mirror lockup.
- it does not time off to save battery easily or at least I have not found it easily
- I found a infared remote shutter release for alpha and of course I can\'t get it to work
- finding the magnify on liveview was tiresome - the manual is useless and cryptic
- I cannot sync for remote shutter release with my iphone 4s - don\'t know if not supported or just can\'t figure out - no manual
- The canon wired remote shutter has an easy plug in. The sony equivalent feels like it will break at first slight touch. Ditto on sd card cover and battery cover.
7) The liveview focus did not seem to have a much resolution as my 5diii. Could be wrong.
8) The histogram implemenation is way too small compared to the 5diii and thus it makes it difficult to get the exposure right wthout multiple trys
Here are my first impressions and some sample pictures:
1) It yields higher resolution based on my pixel peeping
2) It works fine as far as I can tell with my ts17 and ts24 which is the main reason I bought it to match with. I was worried that the edge fixes sony had implemented to fix extreme light angles might help rangerfinder lens but hurt regular lens. I could not find any distortion from this affect. So it passed the most important challenge for me. Including shifting to extremes and merging.
3) All my zeiss lens worked great 25/2, 15/2.8, 35/1.4. In fact I think with less vignetting. So again, it did great on with my eos mount zeiss\'s. No visible vignetting.
4) All my ef lens that I tried worked - 24-105 focussed and stabilized, 100-400 focussed and stabilized, 24-70, 70-300 5.6 focussed and stabilized, 50/1.8 (but no focus). I used with metabones III. But it seemed really slow to focus. My impression is a bit slower but comparable to than the same lens on my eosm with adapter.
5) As expected it chews batteries. I can get 1000 or more pictures with 5diii but way less on a7r.
6) It features feel like the Russion version of the 5diii. It all works but not smoothly
- it seems to have more vibration on shutter release than the 5diii on mirror lockup.
- it does not time off to save battery easily or at least I have not found it easily
- I found a infared remote shutter release for alpha and of course I can\'t get it to work
- finding the magnify on liveview was tiresome - the manual is useless and cryptic
- I cannot sync for remote shutter release with my iphone 4s - don\'t know if not supported or just can\'t figure out - no manual
- The canon wired remote shutter has an easy plug in. The sony equivalent feels like it will break at first slight touch. Ditto on sd card cover and battery cover.
7) The liveview focus did not seem to have a much resolution as my 5diii. Could be wrong.
8) The histogram implemenation is way too small compared to the 5diii and thus it makes it difficult to get the exposure right wthout multiple trys
Here are my first impressions and some sample pictures:
1) It yields higher resolution based on my pixel peeping
2) It works fine as far as I can tell with my ts17 and ts24 which is the main reason I bought it to match with. I was worried that the edge fixes sony had implemented to fix extreme light angles might help rangerfinder lens but hurt regular lens. I could not find any distortion from this affect. So it passed the most important challenge for me. Including shifting to extremes and merging.
3) All my zeiss lens worked great 25/2, 15/2.8, 35/1.4. In fact I think with less vignetting. So again, it did great on with my eos mount zeiss\'s. No visible vignetting.
4) All my ef lens that I tried worked - 24-105 focussed and stabilized, 100-400 focussed and stabilized, 24-70, 70-300 5.6 focussed and stabilized, 50/1.8 (but no focus). I used with metabones III. But it seemed really slow to focus. My impression is worse than the same lens on my eosm with adapter.
5) As expected it chews batteries. I can get 1000 or more pictures with 5diii but way less on a7r.
6) It features feel like the Russion version of the 5diii. It all works but not smoothly
- it seems to have more vibration on shutter release than the 5diii on mirror lockup.
- it does not time off to save battery easily or at least I have not found it easily
- I found a infared remote shutter release for alpha and of course I can\'t get it to work
- finding the magnify on liveview was tiresome - the manual is useless and cryptic
- I cannot sync for remote shutter release with my iphone 4s - don\'t know if not supported or just can\'t figure out - no manual
- The canon wired remote shutter has an easy plug in. The sony equivalent feels like it will break at first slight touch. Ditto on sd card cover and battery cover.
Here are my first impressions and some sample pictures:
1) It yields higher resolution based on my pixel peeping
2) It works fine as far as I can tell with my ts17 and ts24 which is the main reason I bought it to match with. I was worried that the edge fixes sony had implemented to fix extreme light angles might help rangerfinder lens but hurt regular lens. I could not find any distortion from this affect. So it passed the most important challenge for me. Including shifting to extremes and merging.
3) All my zeiss lens worked great 25/2, 15/2.8, 35/1.4. In fact I think with less vignetting.
4) All my ef lens that I tried worked - 24-105 focussed and stabilized, 100-400 focussed and stabilized, 24-70, 70-300 5.6 focussed and stabilized, 50/1.8 (but no focus). I used with metabones III. But it seemed really slow to focus. My impression is worse than the same lens on my eosm with adapter.
5) As expected it chews batteries. I can get 1000 or more pictures with 5diii but way less on a7r.
3) It features feel like the Russion version of the 5diii. It all works but not smoothly
- it seems to have more vibration on shutter release than the 5diii on mirror lockup.
- it does not time off to save battery easily or at least I have not found it easily
- I found a infared remote shutter release for alpha and of course I can\'t get it to work
- finding the magnify on liveview was tiresome - the manual is useless and cryptic
- I cannot sync for remote shutter release with my iphone 4s - don\'t know if not supported or just can\'t figure out - no manual
- The canon wired remote shutter has an easy plug in. The sony equivalent feels like it will break at first slight touch. Ditto on sd card cover and battery cover.
Here are my first impressions and some sample pictures:
1) It yields higher resolution based on my pixel peeping
2) It works fine as far as I can tell with my ts17 and ts24 which is the main reason I bought it to match with. I was worried that the edge fixes sony had implemented to fix extreme light angles might help rangerfinder lens but hurt regular lens. I could not find any distortion from this affect. So it passed the most important challenge for me. Including shifting to extremes and merging.
3) All my zeiss lens worked great 25/2, 15/2.8, 35/1.4. In fact I think with less vignetting.
4) All my ef lens that I tried worked - 24-105 focussed and stabilized, 100-400 focussed and stabilized, 24-70, 70-300 5.6 focussed and stabilized, 50/1.8 (but no focus). I used with metabones III. But it seemed really slow to focus. My impression is worse than the same lens on my eosm with adapter.
5) As expected it chews batteries. I can get 1000 or more pictures with 5diii but way less on a7r.
3) It features feel like the Russion version of the 5diii. It all works but not smoothly
- it seems to have more vibration on shutter release than the 5diii on mirror lockup.
- it does not time off to save battery easily or at least I have not found it easily
- I found a infared remote shutter release for alpha and of course I can\'t get it to work
- finding the magnify on liveview was tiresome - the manual is useless and cryptic
- I cannot sync for remote shutter release with my iphone 4s - don\'t know if not supported or just can\'t figure out - no manual
- The canon wired remote shutter has an easy plug in. The sony equivalent feels like it will break at first slight touch. Ditto on sd card cover and battery cover.
Dec 02, 2013 at 10:35 PM
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