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Re: Sony A7r + Rangefinder Lenses: Images
I tried to shoot yesterday. Unfortunately, there\'s no support for A7 in DxO Optics Pro yet, and Darktable which I participated in development for has no proper color profile yet. I tried to use custom ICC instead built upon CMP4 color target, but either I set flashes focal length too long (105 or so), or there were problems with synchronization and electronic first curtain (top of the target was dark), so failed to do this properly. Thus end up with flat colors what won\'t allow to make color rendition assumptions and make images looking not as good as they could be.
Lux 50 ASPH @ f5.6
Lux 35 ASPH FLE @f1.4
And I am afraid the real shooting experience turned to be even worse than I firstly imagined. Inspite they improved zone choose interface (first choose a zone with little rectangle, then magnify) it isn\'t near as fast as using touch screen. There\'s a feature with AF lenses: you can press middle button and camera will track an object that was in focusing area. IMO it is even better than touch screen, but unfortunately it doesn\'t work with manual lenses, which is silly: it looks like it uses pattern recognition only, so nothing would prevent it to be used with lenses with unknown focal length. In this case camera will be highly usable for me, I could leave even with fixed EVF (and one used in A7 is excellent: large and clear, it\'s hard to miss focus with it).
Using EVF in case of quite widish lenses (50 and wider) is not I find acceptable: distortions become too pronounced shooting from eye level, the camera need to be move down to the chest or stomach level.
Dec 03, 2013 at 05:39 AM
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