Sony A7R II impression and images

Putting together multiple 40mp files is not exactly fun. I'm starting to wish this camera had a mode for smaller raw files. But still with the same DR, so I keep using it.

xpfloyd wrote in post #17863415
I'd love to be able to help wallstreet but being from Scotland I dont know what a warm climate is

I was born in Glasgow - fled to Canada and went to Costa Rica on a honeymoon, got burnt to hell, drank way too much but worse my Metabones / Sigma 24-105 was acting up. All seems to be well back in climate controlled Canada but I don't want to take the lens on a wedding gig if it is going to act up. I came across another poster on FM that seems to have had issues with the Sigma 24-105 losing contact so I thought I would ask.

a7II + 85mm 1.2 L II.

OoDee wrote in post #17863525
Putting together multiple 40mp files is not exactly fun. I'm starting to wish this camera had a mode for smaller raw files. But still with the same DR, so I keep using it.

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I think you're making it harder on yourself than you need to. As a workflow alternative, why not downsample the 42MP images prior to stitching them? That's what I've been doing with my 5DS R and a7R II files...typically export/downsample the frames to around 12-14 MP before stitching them togther in Autopano. Makes the whole process a lot easier and still produces very high resolution very sharp results.

David Arbogast wrote in post #17865763
I think you're making it harder on yourself than you need to. As a workflow alternative, why not downsample the 42MP images prior to stitching them? That's what I've been doing with my 5DS R and a7R II files...typically export/downsample the frames to around 12-14 MP before stitching them togther in Autopano. Makes the whole process a lot easier and still produces very high resolution very sharp results.

I understand that would be a way to work around it. But to my understanding that would effectively reduce the dynamic range of the resulting image. I prefer stitching first and editing last. So I want to the full dynamic range available till the very end of my workflow, at least for now.

OoDee wrote in post #17865875
I understand that would be a way to work around it. But to my understanding that would effectively reduce the dynamic range of the resulting image. I prefer stitching first and editing last. So I want to the full dynamic range available till the very end of my workflow, at least for now.

Unless your final stitched image is still in a Raw format (such as the pano-merge in LR), it's not going to impact your DR to export to your stitching app regardless of whether the single images are 42MP or 12MP. You need DR to recover shadow and highlight detail - and you do all that prior to exporting the frames to be stitched anyway. Something really odd going on here...I want to understand more about your process. What are you stitching in?

Do what you want, of course.

David Arbogast wrote in post #17865889
Unless your final stitched image is still in a Raw format (such as the pano-merge in LR), it's not going to impact your DR to export to your stitching app regardless of whether the single images are 42MP or 12MP. You need DR to recover shadow and highlight detail - and you do all that prior to exporting the frames to be stitched anyway. Something really odd going on here...I want to understand more about your process. What are you stitching in?

Do what you want, of course.

I put the stitch together in LR. And I prefer editing the final frame rather than bits and pieces of it. I've done it the other way, and had no trouble producing good results. But this is the way I prefer it.