Sony A7x lounge

mystik610 wrote in post #18120777
Off-topic (maybe not since Apple uses Sony sensors). I'm going to order the new iPhone for my wife at midnight tonight. Not going to lie...I'm excited to play with the new dual camera they put into it....particularly the DOF effect. I had an HTC one at one point that used a dual camera to produce composite image with one camera defocused and the other in focus, but the execution wasn't so great. I personally use android devices, but Apple's execution tends to be more refined, so maybe they've done a better job with this.

Samsung is not a good example of Android phone, they put way to much of their own crap in that in the end ends up causing more issues.

Pure Android is where its at, I have Moto X Pure Edition, no more Samsung

navydoc wrote in post #18120878
Here's a new edit on an older image. I wanted to remove the sign and other distractions from this version. The banding in the sky is due to the gif compression. It isn't there in the jpg shot.

So, here's the before/after and a link to the larger 5683 x 3197 after shot.

https://c2.staticflick​r.com …07489090_1dd494​7ef0_o.jpg

[GIFS ARE NOT RENDERED IN QUOTES]

what did you use to blur the background?

invi2003 wrote in post #18120882
That's me. a7ii + sel50f14z

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you got the new 50 1.4 ZA? how do you like it?

Charlie wrote in post #18120914
may not seem like a huge thing but anyone use family sharing?

well my school requires that kids use an ipad, and so I have to buy apps for the kids to use. With family sharing, they can all share the same purchase. It's pretty darn nifty in practice and a good way to lock a whole family into one camp whether apple or android. My wife is using the iphone 5, and she's due for an upgrade, didnt know you could preorder, so will be checking that out.

My kids are pretty much a lock with apple, they already have their icloud accounts for school, however for me, I'll give up my nexus 6p as soon as apple makes a decent fingerprint reader, it's just so useful to have an ultra fast and reliable fingerprint reader, I cant even believe it's this good (try using any iphone/ipad finger reader for a period of time, it totally sucks in comparison). I hate putting in a passcode and at the same time need that feature to keep my phone secure, I keep dropbox on my phone, which has high security stuff I rely on. The usb 3C charging is amazing as well, so fast.

My whole household is Apple except my phone. iPad, macbook, Apple TV, iPhone for the wife etc etc. It is annoying that my phone doesn't interact with the rest of the house hah.

nekrosoft13 wrote in post #18120957
Samsung is not a good example of Android phone, they put way to much of their own crap in that in the end ends up causing more issues.

Pure Android is where its at, I have Moto X Pure Edition, no more Samsung

Except I was talking about HTC lol. I had HTC one M8 Google Play edition with stock Android....great phone but I smashed and fixing it is a very onerous (expensive) process.

I am using an S6 edge plus right now, however, and honestly don't find samsung's tweaks to the OS to be too intrusive at all. Some of the stuff is really useful...like the edge controls, which I use to change tracks on my phone while working out, since the edge controls are active even if the main display is off.

24-70 GM

Apparently my daughter's height is >95th percentile. Projected to be over 6ft tall

IMAGE LINK: https://flic.kr/p/L4Cy​GK

nekrosoft13 wrote in post #18120959
what did you use to blur the background?

In photoshopCC 2015.5, I used the tilt shift blur filter found in the Filter>Blur Gallery. First, I selected the car and put it on its own layer, filled in where the car was using content-aware fill and removed the distractions from the background like the sign.

mystik610 wrote in post #18121008
24-70 GM

Apparently my daughter's height is >95th percentile. Projected to be over 6ft tall

IMAGE LINK: https://flic.kr/p/L4Cy​GK _DSC2645 by Carlo Alcala, on Flickr

I know the feeling...mine is 5 and is 48" tall...projected to be 6' tall...

SIGMA ANNOUNCES E-MOUNT CINE LENSES - COULD THIS BE A PREVIEW OF NEW SIGMA E-Mount Photo Lenses???

for those like me that don't know...what makes a "cine" lens...what is the difference?

TRhoads wrote in post #18121044
for those like me that don't know...what makes a "cine" lens...what is the difference?

as far as I'm aware instead if F Stops they use T Stops.

And Focus and Zoom rings have "gears" like feel so it can be integrated into rigs to move the focus/zoom easier.

example of cine lens

nekrosoft13 wrote in post #18120961
you got the new 50 1.4 ZA? how do you like it?

This lens is amazing. I was using the 55 f1.8 but ended up selling it to fund this purchase. I shot lots of family pictures with this lens and even my wife is impressed with it.

invi2003 wrote in post #18121062
This lens is amazing. I was using the 55 f1.8 but ended up selling it to fund this purchase. I shot lots of family pictures with this lens and even my wife is impressed with it.

i'm really considering of getting a 50 1.4, due to price so far i'm leaning towards the Samyang, 50 ZA also looks amazing, but that price.

How is the size weight of it compared to the 55ZA you had before.

TRhoads wrote in post #18121044
for those like me that don't know...what makes a "cine" lens...what is the difference?

They have a number of features that make them easier to use for video production. Generally they have de-clicked apertures so that you can smoothly change exposure while your shooting, they will have geared rings(focus, aperture, zoom) so that you can use them with follow focus rigs, they give their aperture values in T-stops instead of F-stops which is a measure of the amount of light that passes through the lens instead of the size of the aperture opening, and they usually try to minimize focus breathing to as high a degree as possible.

nekrosoft13 wrote in post #18121054
as far as I'm aware instead if F Stops they use T Stops.

And Focus and Zoom rings have "gears" like feel so it can be integrated into rigs to move the focus/zoom easier.

example of cine lens

see the "gears"

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wow...thanks...I had no idea. I saw somewhere that Canon now has a power zoom attachment...not sure how it works...but I think it does that and is for video presumably...

TRhoads wrote in post #18121084
wow...thanks...I had no idea. I saw somewhere that Canon now has a power zoom attachment...not sure how it works...but I think it does that and is for video presumably...

power zoom attachment is for ameateur work... people shooting pro/commercial video won't use that.