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| Posted: Sat Apr 9th, 2022 17:20 |
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Iain
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I am impressed with the Sony A9 but the menu system!!!
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| Posted: Sat Apr 9th, 2022 21:09 |
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Eric
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Iain wrote:I am impressed with the Sony A9 but the menu system!!! Yup you HAVE to make your own MY menu of key parameters for easy rapid recall. The good (but expensive) news is… they changed it on the A1. It’s much much better. I would keep an eye out for upgrades to the A9 body. I am certain they will transfer the A1 menu system to the next A9 generation.
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| Posted: Sun Apr 10th, 2022 19:18 |
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Iain
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I read that Eric. I'm sorting out what I need to change in the menu and that should be that, maybe 
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| Posted: Tue Apr 12th, 2022 11:47 |
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Graham Whistler
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Ian you should be very happy with that I have a family member with one and he is a serious photographer and advised me to go Sony and A1. All good news but agree about menus. I now have 5 Sony lenses and all have very good autofocus and are pin sharp. The Judge at our local camera club the other night said my pictures are too sharp!!!! This was the photo, A1 with 200-600mm lens plus x1.4, he also said he did not like the out-of-focus background. Click here to comment on this image.
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| Posted: Tue Apr 12th, 2022 16:09 |
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Eric
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The only annoyance I have encountered with Sony is the 100-400 lens. Really sharp fast focus lens but why oh why does it have a creeping zoom? Seriously, in this day and age to have a prestige lens ‘zooming itself’ when you hang the combo downward. That was a problem with amateur zooms back in the 80s, to find it on this lens was a frustration. A self moving zoom is a pain. Doesn’t happen on the 200-600….so why the 100-400?
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| Posted: Tue Apr 12th, 2022 16:18 |
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Eric
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Graham Whistler wrote:Ian you should be very happy with that I have a family member with one and he is a serious photographer and advised me to go Sony and A1. All good news but agree about menus. I now have 5 Sony lenses and all have very good autofocus and are pin sharp. The Judge at our local camera club the other night said my pictures are too sharp!!!! This was the photo, A1 with 200-600mm lens plus x1.4, he also said he did not like the out-of-focus background. I confess Graham, I am not a fan of the complete fuzzed out backgrounds either.  I mentioned this a while back on the shots that Jeff did of the shorteared owl ‘suspended’ in a featureless gel like background. It seems like a modern trend as lots of people do it. Personally I like more habitat detail albeit a tad out of focus, in the background.
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| Posted: Tue Apr 12th, 2022 17:00 |
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Iain
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Graham Whistler wrote:Ian you should be very happy with that I have a family member with one and he is a serious photographer and advised me to go Sony and A1. All good news but agree about menus. I now have 5 Sony lenses and all have very good autofocus and are pin sharp. The Judge at our local camera club the other night said my pictures are too sharp!!!! This was the photo, A1 with 200-600mm lens plus x1.4, he also said he did not like the out-of-focus background. It will be a bit by bit change for me. Its good to see that the TC works so well with the 200-600. I like the OOF back ground.
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| Posted: Tue Apr 12th, 2022 23:12 |
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Eric
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Iain wrote:It will be a bit by bit change for me. Its good to see that the TC works so well with the 200-600. I like the OOF back ground. I am not saying the background shouldn’t be out of focus. I just like to see more detail rather than a ‘colour wash’ effect. To me this effect is unnatural…..not the sort of bokeh you would get from a wide open lens.  Click here to comment on this image. This is a much more natural look, with a semblance of discernibility in the background….  Click here to comment on this image. To me it is the difference between photography and painting. We capture the image in front of us….a painter has poetic licence to ‘make bits up’. Digital software enables us to grey the delineation between what we actually see with our eyes and what we decide to see through effects. Just a personal feeling.
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| Posted: Wed Apr 13th, 2022 06:49 |
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chrisbet
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Yes - very personal, I find the first has to little detail in the background and the second too much!
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| Posted: Wed Apr 13th, 2022 13:40 |
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Eric
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chrisbet wrote:Yes - very personal, I find the first has to little detail in the background and the second too much! Agreed. There wasn’t enough separation between subject and background in the image I used, and the background was very busy. I also went ott with the blur mask. But without some degree of definition in the background the bird loses its connection with the habitat and as my friend Mike asserts ‘it becomes a postage stamp’. I suppose I agree with him.
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