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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
09-23-2014, 10:23 PM
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X marks the spot
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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
07-29-2014, 01:39 AM
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Is that your daughter? Looks lovely.
Discovered this cat in Annandale - it was very curious about me, but as soon as I pressed the shutter button a few times, it became nervous.
Okay, so sometimes the shutter noise on the A7r can be a tad intimidating!
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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
07-30-2014, 12:51 PM
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Winner of this year's Harbour Sculpture exhibition at Clarkes Point Reserve - "Meeting Places"
Captured this with a 10 second exposure - the horizontal lines at the back are from a boat passing through
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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
07-25-2014, 03:41 PM
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After the apocalypse:
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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
07-21-2014, 07:44 AM
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Mulan #1 by jenkwang, on Flickr
CZJ Biotar 75/1.5
A monthly project that I just keep failing to keep up with.
The idea being that rather than spend so much money on gears, I might as well spend a little on a costume and prop for my children.
Weather was never agreeable these past few months or schedule just did not permit.
Finally, packed the bag on Sat, and got my girl out the house to the nearby park.
I had brought a bag of lighting with me, but sometimes, the best light is the god given one. :D
Opened up a silver umbrella on a lightstand as a reflector and that was it.
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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
07-05-2014, 01:28 AM
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DSC0074520140628ILCE-7_1 by jenkwang, on Flickr
A7+Pentax A50/1.4
Maybe I don't really need a FF for a shot that is stopped down, but with small houses we have here, the working distance of a 50mm on FF makes it a bit easier
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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
07-17-2014, 08:16 PM
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Photototo IMO, sums up the problems of the A7/r very well in his review :
Photototo: Sony Alpha A7 (ILCE-7) and Sony Alpha A7r (ILCE-7r) Part 9 - Final Showdown
No camera is perfect.
Its just getting the info and weighting if it affects you as the user.
To me, the A7 is the best camera for MF lenses at this point in time (warts and all)
1. Auto ISO changing when thumb wheel is nudged (it sits where your cheek rests).
>> Yes its like this, but it can be customized to another button
2. Lenses stop focusing and you need to take them off, take off the adapter, turn the camera off, turn it on, then it works for a few more shots.
>> No comment; not using AF adapters and seldom use the only AF lens I have for A7.
3. To review an image, you have to zoom into the image to a pixel level, then spend a lifetime zooming out to the desired level.
>> A bit silly, yes and there are lots of such little silliness in the A7/r that give me the impression that Sony knows how to make good tech, but not well thought out cameras.
4. The menu button is the size of an electron.
>> Ok to me; But my hands are small
5. It confused shutter priority with aperture priority. Set it to A, it lets you adjust the shutter, not the aperture - sometimes.
>> Perhaps his camera had issues
6. The battery life is shit!
>> Indeed so if using AF lenses with Wifi and pre-AF turned on. (close to 3hrs if not less); and poor battery discipline
I use purely MF lenses at batt lasts 5-6hrs.
7. The firmware updates from Sony are useless. Lucky if they fix anything remotely problematic.
>> Agree.
8. Bracketing is limited to 3.
>> And it its sillier than that. Its in rigid options of 3 frames of 1ev or 2ev (no in-betweens) . 5 frames of 1ev (which ends up to be the same as 3 frames 2ev... duh... ) :D
As I said, good tech, not well thought out photographically
9. Menu system is awful and stolen from point and shoot camera. Important stuff is buried deep within the menus, superfluous stuff is in the top level.
>> Works ok to me (every brand camera menu is a clunk of stuff :D )
10. No battery charger, usb cable to camera (so can't use camera whilst spare is on charge.
>> Yes; Have to get a 3rd party one on ebay
11. The metering of this camera is a pure guess (one moment it guesses 1/20th, then 1/500th).
>> Metering is good in fact.
Its again the lack of attention to detail photographically speaking that Sony decides that the camera should prefer 1/60 as a default shutter speed if the camera can afford to do it .
12. Only 1 SD slot (its already killed 2 SD cards).
>> Er... just get more cards? Never had and issue.
I hate putting all my eggs in one basket (or SD card) anyway, in case it got corrupted, lost, damaged on a tour.
13. Needs an adapter to use any lens of worth.
>> FE lenses are fine, though limited in range
14. The adapter is huge!
>> So was any DSLR with that adapter built in. :D
15. Startup time from cold is 4 seconds (even with firmware update).
>> Yes, not too good here.
16. AF is bad!
>> Its ok in good light.
Can go for the wrong thing if its contrast is higher though.
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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
06-14-2014, 03:33 PM
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Would really like to try those thanks! Hope you get well soon and we should go somewhere and shoot. Maybe the Blue Mountains Winter Festival?
Captured at the Graffiti Tunnel at Sydney University:
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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
05-28-2014, 03:22 PM
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Wow, I woke up this morning and my video of the Lighting of Sails that I posted yesterday has been reposted by Vivid Sydney - so far viewed over 1200 times and reshared about 400 times.
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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
05-02-2014, 03:23 AM
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Lovely autumn colours
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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
03-02-2014, 02:59 PM
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Some shots of bicycles in the city - so who said Sydney has a road racing culture? :-)
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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
03-01-2014, 07:58 PM
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Beautiful colours on those shots - well done.
It's been raining here for nearly a week
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Forum: Pentax K-r
01-05-2012, 01:47 PM
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Now this thread has interested me since i too have just brought my first ever slr, a Pentax K-r. This issue had given me some cause for concern, especially since one of the reasons i got this camera was because of many independent reviews stating that the kit lens was particularly good when compared to lens supplied with other entry level dslr's. Today i actually had the chance to test it for myself and see how much of an issue this softness was. The results are below:
Now this is my first outing with an dslr (let alone this K-r) and lets be honest there is nothing amazing about the pictures. However i think (that should read hope) that you will agree that these pictures are relatively sharp, or at least more so that the one the OP posted at the start of this thread. It just took some time to fine tune the settings to accommodate the dull and windy conditions (set the shutter speed and aperture manually and up the ISO) and a bit of patience and perseverance. With more favourable conditions and more practice i imagine these could be even better.
Hopefully this proves decent sharpness can be achieved with the 18-55mm kit lens, although please feel free to comment otherwise as after all I am new to this :)
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Forum: Pentax K-r
01-05-2012, 04:56 PM
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I have to say Mr Spocko, for someone who has such a downer on a piece of kit, I'm surprised you spend so much of your time on this forum. The world is full of opinions and opposing views and that's fine. There comes a time though when endless repetition becomes a bit of a crashing bore to many and it's time to either sing a new song or pick a fresh audience.
There is life here, but not as you know it.
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