Sony Lounge Thread MKIII (All Sony cameras welcome)

LeeRatters wrote in post #18850392
Have you another video on its way from this past weekend away?

I’ve not started editing yet but plan on doing one. Was too tired last night but hopefully get into it tomorrow

Charlie wrote in post #18850328
Sony would have to remove the hump and ibis to get the camera down to that size and weight...... which would be pretty painful. Not sure I can handle no IBIS, even with using a gimbal for video, IBIS gets you that extra smoothness. I do feel that sony should make it regardless, FF A6400 for $1300-1500, would be a huge seller.

this makes me think of the original a7. lighter and smaller. would need the updated resolution for evf and display and better af. and of course, better ergonomics. otherwise people will whine about buying a small camera and complain that it is too small :P

oh and would have to go back to the smaller battery.

xpfloyd wrote in post #18850400
I’ve not started editing yet but plan on doing one. Was too tired last night but hopefully get into it tomorrow

I have an easter egg hunt, not interesting enough to post, only one toddler and a bunch of middle aged kids fooling around. I have been getting into luts..... and wow, so much easier to edit gopro footage or anything TBH. Been doing more complicated edits back on Final Cut, and applying gopro luts on R3 footage, it's like really editing video sorta like editing photos. I can compound the clips and applying luts makes the workflow very fast and looks a whole lot better than SOOC.

DTBaan wrote in post #18850408
this makes me think of the original a7. lighter and smaller. would need the updated resolution for evf and display and better af. and of course, better ergonomics. otherwise people will whine about buying a small camera and complain that it is too small :P

oh and would have to go back to the smaller battery.

NOOOOOOOOO way I'm going back to the small battery

Smaller is better, but I dont want to deal with the smaller batteries, left the house with the camera @ 50% on sunday, didnt have concern.

Charlie wrote in post #18850411
I have an easter egg hunt, not interesting enough to post, only one toddler and a bunch of middle aged kids fooling around. I have been getting into luts..... and wow, so much easier to edit gopro footage or anything TBH. Been doing more complicated edits back on Final Cut, and applying gopro luts on R3 footage, it's like really editing video sorta like editing photos. I can compound the clips and applying luts makes the workflow very fast and looks a whole lot better than SOOC.

Interesting, haven’t tried luts or any grading for that matter. Do you have to shoot in the flat GoPro profile to use luts?

Meant to mention, I used the Tamron 28-75 all weekend and I am now totally sold on it, its awesome. Really sharp from wide open, has a nice bokeh to it the majority of the time and its light

Charlie wrote in post #18850415
NOOOOOOOOO way I'm going back to the small battery

Smaller is better, but I dont want to deal with the smaller batteries, left the house with the camera @ 50% on sunday, didnt have concern.

haha

dont worry. sony will create a solar panel that will also act as an lcd top display for the top portion to recharge battery ;P

xpfloyd wrote in post #18850418
Interesting, haven’t tried luts or any grading for that matter. Do you have to shoot in the flat GoPro profile to use luts?

I'm shooting a flat profile with the gopro, however the files from the R3 or A9 seem so strong, I leave them as is, I havent touched luts on lumafusion and not sure if possible. With final cut, simply have all your luts in a single folder, and then in the effects panel, choose custom lut, it's real simple once you do it. After I figure my lut, I mess with color wheels/curves/sharpeni​ng, lut strength, then save the entire preset as my own flavor. I have two presets, gopro, and sony mirrorless. Drag and drop the effect and done. With indoor scenes, I may need to adjust white balance, but that's it for color grading.

Doing my own wheels, brightness, ect, just wasnt taking very well compared to the lut. I just tried a lot of luts until I found one that worked. It may be oversaturated, but you can tone down the strength. If you ever watch the gopro promo videos, they have impeccable video, and the luts get you halfway there , they give you a look that's much better then phone video, even though that's essentially the quality you're getting.

SAR claims that Sony will release a A9II later in the year but I personally don't think it will happen. The firmware updates make all the bodies practically new so aside from sensor changes, I don't see much that could be improved.

36MP 16-stop DR sensor, 7.6 billion ISO, 8K recording at 120 fps, fully articulating screen, insect eye-AF, mind-reading AF point selection, but quirkily absolutely no support for slog just to give reviewers something to freak out about...............wh​ere do I pre-order my new a9 II?

TMaG82 wrote in post #18850240
Who’s ready for the a9ii? Lol. Start saving now. Only about... $800 a month?

Nah. AR7iii + Mini a9 would be idea, in which case I'd ditch the a9 if the mini has same specs, just APS-C.

Charlie wrote in post #18850328
Sony would have to remove the hump and ibis to get the camera down to that size and weight...... which would be pretty painful. Not sure I can handle no IBIS, even with using a gimbal for video, IBIS gets you that extra smoothness. I do feel that sony should make it regardless, FF A6400 for $1300-1500, would be a huge seller.

Oh yeah...get rid of IBIS and the hump, and go back to old batteries to keep the form factor small. Price it near $1k. It will sell in volumes and that is the point.

Lots of reasons us gear heads would scoff at this, but Sony needs this if they really want to be a market leader in the camera space. If they want to capture market share, they need a broader product mix than what they offer now or Canikon will pull the rug from underneath them because Canikon has the branding. Everything Sony releases is bigger, more upscale and expensive, and they're lacking in terms of entry level/compact offerings. We still don't have that mythical FE 35 F2 that Canikon launched their mirrorless systems with!

xpfloyd wrote in post #18850429
Meant to mention, I used the Tamron 28-75 all weekend and I am now totally sold on it, its awesome. Really sharp from wide open, has a nice bokeh to it the majority of the time and its light

I'm ready to jump on the 17-28 when Tamron gets it out....wish it would before out big trip end of summer.

David Arbogast wrote in post #18850513
36MP 16-stop DR sensor, 7.6 billion ISO, 8K recording at 120 fps, fully articulating screen, insect eye-AF, mind-reading AF point selection, but quirkily absolutely no support for slog just to give reviewers something to freak out about...............wh​ere do I pre-order my new a9 II?

'insect eye-AF', OK I might be interested now.

Dlee13 wrote in post #18850466
SAR claims that Sony will release a A9II later in the year but I personally don't think it will happen. The firmware updates make all the bodies practically new so aside from sensor changes, I don't see much that could be improved.

Bring it on. I'll take one of those obsolete a9's off someone's hands