Sony A7x lounge

vipergts831 wrote in post #17819975
One from a very foggy day this week in NYC

IMAGE LINK: https://flic.kr/p/BEd2​gz NYC on a foggy day this week... by CiclismoNY, on Flickr[/IMG]

Nice watercolor painting! Very cool image.

TRhoads wrote in post #17819775
I wasn't sure what that was at first.....monitor calibration...a definite must! I don't like being on non-calibrated monitors.

Definitely! I used to just think it wasn't necessary, but now I can't imagine editing on an uncalibrated monitor.

That reminds me...I should re-calibrate soon.

Ive never calibrated my monitor. Keep meaning to sort that out. Will have to wait until July due to my GAS embargo

xpfloyd wrote in post #17819994
Got another two questions about adapted lenses and AF. Is it normal that I only get the really small focus box going green and not the larger one I get with native lenses? and also my steadyshot goes to Auto but how does it know its an 85mm lens? (or is that info sent as its a smart adaptor?)

Which Focus Area are you using?
Do you have Face Detect ON?

With an adapted lens, if you are using WIDE focus area, and you have enabled face detect, you will get a Big Green Square if a Face is recognized - otherwise you will get one or more small green squares when focus lock is achieved.

At least with a MB iv T adapter, the FL data is passed from the lens through the adapter - so it is automatic.

wallstreetoneil wrote in post #17820032
Which Focus Area are you using?
Do you have Face Detect ON?

With an adapted lens, if you are using WIDE focus area, and you have enabled face detect, you will get a Big Green Square if a Face is recognized - otherwise you will get one or more small green squares when focus lock is achieved.

At least with a MB iv T adapter, the FL data is passed from the lens through the adapter - so it is automatic.

Im using flexible spot small and face detect is off. I can see my small square that I use to select the focus point but when focus is achieved its even smaller squares inside the main one that go green. When I use native lenses its the flexi spot itself that goes green.

This may be standard but ive not used AF on adapted lenses until now so just wanted to check

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EDIT - Just went to a 45 min break!

Thanks David. Hard to believe but that is what the day looked like. I was walking across the George Washington Bridge to pick up my new bike, look over and said wow.

navydoc wrote in post #17819921
What ever you do, DO NOT LET YOUR SONY GET WET!

IMAGE LINK: https://www.flickr.com​/photos/navydoc45/2369​0021561/
Don't go near the water by Gene on Flickr

That little USB is brilliant

xpfloyd wrote in post #17819916
Thanks Charlie. Im just ordering a Metabones. An expense I didnt want but seems like I need to now

EDIT - Ordered. Estimated Delivery Date 22/12/2015-28/12/2015

I got the metabones iV T for free from BH. I also ordered the Saker Falcon Lite, it half the price of Metabones, it can be updated by Bluetooth. Plus it also does Eye AF, AF in Video, and Automatic AF, which Metabones doesn't do.

And supposedly works with Canon 85L Mark I, Metabones doesn't.

Flexible Spot Medium can be significantly better in lower contrast situations.

I only have a 28F2 native lens so almost all my experience is with adapted Canon L lenses for the most part.

My standard setup would be Flexible Medium and then a quick switch of the MF AF switch on the lens, 2 quick presses of the C2 key that I mapped magnification to, if I want to nail a wide aperture, then click.

I have experimented with WIDE AF zone with Face Detect if I'm shooting F4 or smaller apertures and it works well as long as there aren't too many competing faces.

nekrosoft13 wrote in post #17820093
I got the metabones iV T for free from BH. I also ordered the Saker Falcon Lite, it half the price of Metabones, it can be updated by Bluetooth. Plus it also does Eye AF, AF in Video, and Automatic AF, which Metabones doesn't do.

And supposedly works with Canon 85L Mark I, Metabones doesn't.

The Saker has got a lot of reports saying the build quality is poor. Thats what put me off that one

navydoc wrote in post #17819921
What ever you do, DO NOT LET YOUR SONY GET WET!

IMAGE LINK: https://www.flickr.com​/photos/navydoc45/2369​0021561/
Don't go near the water by Gene on Flickr

Lol man this photo is giving me the stupidest case of GAS.

I want a mini a7rII UBS drive to display on my desk!

Sigma 85. All I can give you just now until I get my replacement adaptor as its really annoying.

IMAGE LINK: https://flic.kr/p/BLPr​gy

Nice and sharp! Ugh my personal preference on bokeh is clashing with the onion bokeh in the light blue light circles

vipergts831 wrote in post #17820124
Nice and sharp! Ugh my personal preference on bokeh is clashing with the onion bokeh in the light blue light circles

Yeah it seems to be round centre frame then onion as it goes to the edges but on other shots its mainly round. Not sure how the onion is introduced, I was tilting the camera up towards the light in this shot.

What I do like is that when my adaptor actually works the AF nails focus every time. None of the frustrations I had the first time I owned this when I had a Canon