Sony A7x lounge

If you can create a wireless bulb timer you would be on to a winner. I'm sure many would purchase one. I've got an arduino and all the components required to build a barn door tracker but haven't got round to putting it together yet. Saying that though I'm a novice to coding these things and am basically following an online tutorial for it. I was supplied the arduino sketch by someone on potn

I could write a bulb timer script in about an hour for this. I could make one with an LCD screen with a few buttons (or even a 10 button pad) to give basic features.

Puckman wrote in post #17688301
Here you go. Both taken w the FD 135/2 at 2.8, I believe. MF seems to have nailed the eyes pretty well.

you nailed it perfectly. nice.

mystik610 wrote in post #17688448
FE 90mm f2.8 + a7rII

Undecided if I should get one of these for myself or not. Phenomenal optic, but for loosely framed shots the focal length is too short and/or the aperture is too small to throw distracting background elements out of focus like a 'proper' portrait lens (fast 85, or a 135mm or 200mm lens) can.

On the other hand, I've never really shot macros before, and this might be a good gateway into the world of macro photography.

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it certainly fun for macro. for a paid gig portrait, i would go outdoor and make sure the background is really far. If the location is really nice like an awesome white beach, i personally don't like melting the background away. It doesn't make sense going into that place then if you'll just throw it away with a creamy bokeh. my preference.

but you're right with "loosely random frame shots with distracting background, it's not a background eraser like the 135mm or the 200mm.

Right, I am shooting an event all day now (urgh) for a good 13 hours so can not really play with this till tomorrow. But here is a quick video.

Hey all What have I missed...?

Any news on an A7S2 for me yet?? lol

You leave this thread for a second, you will miss a lot...

this thread is growing fast...

LeeRatters wrote in post #17688527
Hey all What have I missed...?

Any news on an A7S2 for me yet?? lol

Loving the 55 mate, thanks again

No kidding! Good to see new names in here to.

vinmunoz wrote in post #17688517
it certainly fun for macro. for a paid gig portrait, i would go outdoor and make sure the background is really far. If the location is really nice like an awesome white beach, i personally don't like melting the background away. It doesn't make sense going into that place then if you'll just throw it away with a creamy bokeh. my preference.

but you're right with "loosely random frame shots with distracting background, it's not a background eraser like the 135mm or the 200mm.

Well for environmental portraits where I want to pull the background into the frame, I'll reach for a 50 or 35...so it falls into the category of not wide enough either.

I dunno...the lens is kind of awkward for portraits for me. Personal preference though!

It is a very good 'casual' medium telephoto though. The macro ability gives you a lot of flexibility in terms of working distance. 85mm lenses are usually a pain to work with outside of controlled portrait shooting, since the minimum focus distance is pretty far.

mystik610 wrote in post #17688571
Well for environmental portraits where I want to pull the background into the frame, I'll reach for a 50 or 35...so it falls into the category of not wide enough either.

I dunno...the lens is kind of awkward for portraits for me. Personal preference though!

It is a very good 'casual' medium telephoto though. The macro ability gives you a lot of flexibility in terms of working distance. 85mm lenses are usually a pain to work with outside of controlled portrait shooting, since the minimum focus distance is pretty far.

I actually picked up some auto extension tubes on Amazon for $25 and going to see if they'll work as a low budget option for when I want to get close.

vinmunoz wrote in post #17688531
You leave this thread for a second, you will miss a lot...

this thread is growing fast...

Been on holiday for a week. I'm not reading through 665 unread posts.... lol

xpfloyd wrote in post #17688537
Loving the 55 mate, thanks again

Excellent Eddie Glad its getting used!! I've just spent the week with the FE35/2.8 and aside from only being 2.8 its been nice having a small light lens the whole family can use on these occasions.

mystik610 wrote in post #17688571
Well for environmental portraits where I want to pull the background into the frame, I'll reach for a 50 or 35...so it falls into the category of not wide enough either.

I dunno...the lens is kind of awkward for portraits for me. Personal preference though!

It is a very good 'casual' medium telephoto though. The macro ability gives you a lot of flexibility in terms of working distance. 85mm lenses are usually a pain to work with outside of controlled portrait shooting, since the minimum focus distance is pretty far.

the reason i choose the nikkor 135 over the samyang 85mm(returned), the MFD is really far on the 85. I'm sure it's the same as the Batis 85.

In Photoshop, you can import a video clip as "video frames to layers". That way, you can make a frame animation from those layers. Here's one I did using a clip from my touch-tip lighter video. This is just the wand being struck. I've slowed the animation down so that each frame can be seen. This was originally 3840 x 2160 (4K) but I reduced the size to 1280 x 720 so I could post it here as a .gif.

my trustee test model for all my lenses....

all at f2.8

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