Sony Lounge Thread MKIII (All Sony cameras welcome)

Anyone using a peak design everyday 5L sling? Care to post a photo of your setup with it?

navydoc wrote in post #18817233
My neighbor gave this bottle of Mogan David to me so I thought I'd take a photo of it.

No flash, just my bar lights, ambient light, and a small video light from behind to light the liquid a bit.

Oh, this is also a blend of two exposures due to the shallow DOF at f2.8. One for the bottle label and one for the front rim of the glass.

IMAGE LINK: https://flic.kr/p/R8Cp​FZ Mogan David by Gene, on Flickr

Excellent reminder of how good your sig and the 55/1.8 is.

xpfloyd wrote in post #18817309
Anyone using a peak design everyday 5L sling? Care to post a photo of your setup with it?

my last setup, tam 28-75 + CV 35, rode mic, pixi table tripod. My kids were performing for lunar new year, thought I might sit close, but ended in the back. Thank goodness I had my 7' monopod to get over the crowd

I've always got the pro pad and clip on it, on longer trips, I'll holster the camera.

TRhoads wrote in post #18816629
I have a love/hate relationship with SF...my first trip out there was in 2000, and I have been back at least once a year since...and now every year...there are parts of that city I really like and parts I hate...and with everything that I have read, and the amount of homlessness in that city...crime is kinda high...and walking about with a few grand in camera gear on your back makes you a target...so I always feel like I have to have my head on a swivel and it makes me uneasy at times...and since I can't carry there...even more so...LOL...but I still go back...going in April for a week to work and spend time with friends...

my favorite place to be...my friends apartment...has the most excellent sunrise view...I love waking up in that space...cool breeze...cool air...great view...

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We were there in January. I didn't like it that much, didn't feel that safe walking around with all my camera gear.
We stayed at a hotel on the corner of Post and Jones St. Didn't like the walk up there from Union Square. Wife and kids were a little uncomfortable. We walked from Union Square down to Samy's, should have got an Uber

We were in New York just before that and felt fine the whole time.

Saying that, parts of Leicester, in the UK where I am from and we visited were very rough now. 20 years since I've been there. I was really glad to to back in New Zealand

Dlee13, hoping to hit Bombo early April for some astro. Got a mate down in Wollongong so will be staying there

gaabnz wrote in post #18817345
We were there in January. I didn't like it that much, didn't feel that safe walking around with all my camera gear.
We stayed at a hotel on the corner of Post and Jones St. Didn't like the walk up there from Union Square. Wife and kids were a little uncomfortable. We walked from Union Square down to Samy's, should have got an Uber

We were in New York just before that and felt fine the whole time.

Saying that, parts of Leicester, in the UK where I am from and we visited were very rough now. 20 years since I've been there. I was really glad to to back in New Zealand

Dlee13, hoping to hit Bombo early April for some astro. Got a mate down in Wollongong so will be staying there

I didn't feel too unsafe with my gear, but there was a bunch of homeless always approaching me asking for money.

If you ever go again, you should check out The Donatello hotel, it's 1 block from Union Square on Post street. You just have to be careful as they try to scam you with a free breakfast that's actually a timeshare presentation.

Sorry where is Bombo? I never heard of it haha. Believe it or not, I never been to Wollongong either haha. I rarely leave the CBD you going to be staying in the city too?

This lens was mentioned on the Sony Alpha Rumors website. Is there anyone here interested in the William Optics RedCat 51 Apochromatic refractor lens for astrophotography? At $658.00, it seems to be reasonably priced.





It looks like it could be a good birding lens too.

Bombo is in Kiama, just a bit further south than Wollongong. Awesome place and amazing for photography. I love the south coast down there, beautiful.

One thing we found when booking out trip was the cost of accomodation in San Fran. It was pretty much triple the price we paid in both Hong Kong and New York, which was why we ended up in the hotel we did. It fit our budget. The hotel was actually ok, but the walk up to it, that was not the best.
First day there as we went for a walk, the concierge told us to only turn left out of the hotel, and do not turn right !

Dlee13 wrote in post #18817356
Sorry where is Bombo? I never heard of it haha. Believe it or not, I never been to Wollongong either haha. I rarely leave the CBD you going to be staying in the city too?

This is bombo quarry

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"Leaning Into The Morning Light"

A peaceful scene at Lost Maples State Park, Texas during sunrise.

FE 16-35 GM

Note: I tried a new method to sharpen for web. Hopefully the image looks fine.

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digital_AM wrote in post #18817259
^ All tell a story Carlo. Well done!

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I updated my website to include a landscape page. I uploaded some of my favorites. I'll continue to tweak it over the next few days (ie dropping some images and adding others). It was hard picking around 20 images for my portfolio.

https://www.alfredomor​a.net/landscapes

TY alfredo!

You have a killer portfolio on there. Really nice work.

mystik610 wrote in post #18817397
TY alfredo!

You have a killer portfolio on there. Really nice work.

Thank you for checking it out!

gaabnz wrote in post #18817370
Bombo is in Kiama, just a bit further south than Wollongong. Awesome place and amazing for photography. I love the south coast down there, beautiful.

One thing we found when booking out trip was the cost of accomodation in San Fran. It was pretty much triple the price we paid in both Hong Kong and New York, which was why we ended up in the hotel we did. It fit our budget. The hotel was actually ok, but the walk up to it, that was not the best.
First day there as we went for a walk, the concierge told us to only turn left out of the hotel, and do not turn right !

Damn looks nice! The only place I been even remotely close to there was Bald Hill Lookout if you've heard of it.

Yeah I find things in the US to be quite expensive in general. Some clothes and electronics I was looking at are actually cheaper after conversion, colognes and perfumes too.

We spent so much on this holiday so we plan to go places like HK and Singapore more too, we spend less on accommodation and food.

Funny they told you that because we actually walked all the way from our hotel down Post street to get to Japantown then from there to the Painted Ladies. We didn't see anything bad along way, it was only after this we went through Tenderloin and were very cautious where we walked for the remainder of the trip lol.

gaabnz wrote in post #18817375
This is bombo quarry

IMAGE LINK: https://flic.kr/p/LXCp​Hf Bombo Quarry re edit jpg by Gary Ashton, on Flickr

Amazing shot! I still haven't tried any Astro, always too lazy to go far enough for a decent shot.

David Arbogast wrote in post #18817296
Good thing you made the right decision. What brought you to your senses? Zoom is too big? Too boring?

I thought it would be good for landscape - which it no doubt is. Wide enough to fairly telephoto without the need to be swapping lenses...... But, i always found the 24-105L boring, it never wowed me, it gave me some good shots, but I didn't enjoy using it..... Then there is the size and weight too.

It was that vs the CV40 1.2E come the end and for me that wasn't even a contest!!

navydoc wrote in post #18817089
Oh man, does this mean I'm going to have to clean house?

Haha I was stuck in Disneyland all day

David Arbogast wrote in post #18817095
That’s great! Planning to get the 17-28mm as well?

Yes! I currently have been adapting my Canon 16-35mm F4L and have been happy with the performance and IC but if the Tamron is priced right it would be hard to pass on that f2.8

Charlie wrote in post #18817329
my last setup, tam 28-75 + CV 35, rode mic, pixi table tripod. My kids were performing for lunar new year, thought I might sit close, but ended in the back. Thank goodness I had my 7' monopod to get over the crowd

I've always got the pro pad and clip on it, on longer trips, I'll holster the camera.

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Thanks Charlie. I hate bulky bags. Currently use an F stop Shibata and a think tank retrospective 5. Both bags will hold my a7riii, B25, B85 and a third lens. I was trying to work out if the 5L sling would allow slightly more than that but it looks like it wont. The 10L sling looks really big though. Ideally I would be carrying rx1rii, a7riii, B25, B85 and either cv15 or lox 21 in the absolute smallest package possible. I have a backpack that fits it all but looking for a sling style if possible for on my travels

Edit - Charlie, what bag do you use when you carry two bodies? Or is that when you switch to your modular setup?

Edit 2 - think I’ll order the 5L and 10L from Amazon and see what one suits best