Sony Lounge Thread MKIII (All Sony cameras welcome)

MedicineMan4040 wrote in post #18862709
Thanks DLee, EXIF doesn't show in the composited image but I used the a9.

Yeah I checked the EXIF on Flickr too but couldn't find it haha. I was surprised when I seen 1DX II on one of your recent pics too

So I got a new lens lately, but for various reasons haven't gotten much chance to use it yet. Last weekend my upper front tooth, which had a root canal 35 years ago, decided to chip 50% off. Got a temporary tooth put in on Tuesday and I'm just now feeling good.

I did get out to take a few pictures, but the light was really bad for the most part. Things I like about the Sony FE 100mm GM is it's just insanely sharp. The background obliteration is mostly limited, but it has a look that I like.

To be perfectly honest about my primary motivation in getting the 100GM is that I've decided, for quite some time, that I want a three lens prime kit of 24mm, 50mm, and 100mm. There is, of course, a Sigma 105mm, but that is too ridiculously huge for what I want. The 90mm G is another consideration, but I'm fixated on at least 100mm. Other options are the Zeiss Makro Planar 100mm and the CV 110mm, both amazing lenses, but they have no AF. I want my 24, 50, 100 kit to be all AF.

Naturally the FE 100 GM is light-limited (max 5.6), so I'll probably be keeping my Batis 135mm for when I want to shoot longer, but need the additional stops. OTOH it's entirely possible that I don't need a faster t-stop than 5.6 for my long lens.

Here are a couple of hastily captured images to show a little rendering. The detail the lens picks up in the wood chairs or flower petals is pretty great imo. Although the background blur behind the chairs is subtle, it's also smooth and clean. I hope to give the lens a lot more work tomorrow.

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Dlee13 wrote in post #18863008
Yeah I checked the EXIF on Flickr too but couldn't find it haha. I was surprised when I seen 1DX II on one of your recent pics too

DLee I've still got lots (too many) shots from my EOS days, and every now and then clean out the files on the hard drive. Don't miss
the 1DXii at all by the way I think it is a great camera IF you plan on having a football linebacker slam you to the ground; other than that the a9 is way way way more advanced.

David Arbogast wrote in post #18863146
So I got a new lens lately, but for various reasons haven't gotten much chance to use it yet. Last weekend my upper front tooth, which had a root canal 35 years ago, decided to chip 50% off. Got a temporary tooth put in on Tuesday and I'm just now feeling good.

I did get out to take a few pictures, but the light was really bad for the most part. Things I like about the Sony FE 100mm GM is it's just insanely sharp. The background obliteration is mostly limited, but it has a look that I like.

To be perfectly honest about my primary motivation in getting the 100GM is that I've decided, for quite some time, that I want a three lens prime kit of 24mm, 50mm, and 100mm. There is, of course, a Sigma 105mm, but that is too ridiculously huge for what I want. The 90mm G is another consideration, but I'm fixated on at least 100mm. Other options are the Zeiss Makro Planar 100mm and the CV 110mm, both amazing lenses, but they have no AF. I want my 24, 50, 100 kit to be all AF. Naturally the FE 100 GM is light-limited (max 5.6), so I'll probably be keeping my Batis 135mm for when I want to shoot longer, but need the additional stops. OTOH it's entirely possible that I don't need a faster t-stop than 5.6.

Here are a couple of hastily captured images to show a little rendering. The detail the lens picks up in the wood chairs or flower petals is pretty great imo. Although the background blur behind the chairs is subtle, it's also smooth and clean. I hope to give the lens a lot more work tomorrow.

IMAGE LINK: https://flic.kr/p/Sa2z​q8 Garden Rest by David Arbogast, on Flickr

IMAGE LINK: https://flic.kr/p/TN2t​ou Up Close with a Hydrangea by David Arbogast, on Flickr

Woot for you and new glass. Sorry about the tooth. I'm self medicating a cut gum (flossing error big time)....no fun.

David Arbogast wrote in post #18863146
So I got a new lens lately, but for various reasons haven't gotten much chance to use it yet. Last weekend my upper front tooth, which had a root canal 35 years ago, decided to chip 50% off. Got a temporary tooth put in on Tuesday and I'm just now feeling good.

I did get out to take a few pictures, but the light was really bad for the most part. Things I like about the Sony FE 100mm GM is it's just insanely sharp. The background obliteration is mostly limited, but it has a look that I like.

To be perfectly honest about my primary motivation in getting the 100GM is that I've decided, for quite some time, that I want a three lens prime kit of 24mm, 50mm, and 100mm. There is, of course, a Sigma 105mm, but that is too ridiculously huge for what I want. The 90mm G is another consideration, but I'm fixated on at least 100mm. Other options are the Zeiss Makro Planar 100mm and the CV 110mm, both amazing lenses, but they have no AF. I want my 24, 50, 100 kit to be all AF.

Naturally the FE 100 GM is light-limited (max 5.6), so I'll probably be keeping my Batis 135mm for when I want to shoot longer, but need the additional stops. OTOH it's entirely possible that I don't need a faster t-stop than 5.6 for my long lens.

Here are a couple of hastily captured images to show a little rendering. The detail the lens picks up in the wood chairs or flower petals is pretty great imo. Although the background blur behind the chairs is subtle, it's also smooth and clean. I hope to give the lens a lot more work tomorrow.

IMAGE LINK: https://flic.kr/p/Sa2z​q8 Garden Rest by David Arbogast, on Flickr

IMAGE LINK: https://flic.kr/p/TN2t​ou Up Close with a Hydrangea by David Arbogast, on Flickr

Sorry to hear about the tooth! As someone who has a root canal and crown a little over a year ago, I feel your pain.

At the same time it's impressive to hear your root canal lasted that long!

MedicineMan4040 wrote in post #18863173
DLee I've still got lots (too many) shots from my EOS days, and every now and then clean out the files on the hard drive. Don't miss
the 1DXii at all by the way I think it is a great camera IF you plan on having a football linebacker slam you to the ground; other than that the a9 is way way way more advanced.

It's always good to review old RAW files, new techniques can sometimes get you results you couldn't get before
I'm not a brand loyal person, I would own a camera or every brand if my budget allowed it (except Nikon, have 0 interest in them). But in saying that, I would take an A9 over a 1DXII any day. I did one wedding before with this company who did location shoots like on top of snowy mountains and swore by the 1DXII we they said when they were in snowy mountains here and all bodies wouldn't work in those conditions except for those. Performance wise, I think can easily match or exceed the Canon.

Jared done a really good and quite comprehensive video on Eye AF on the big 3.




In terms of Eye AF, Sony is much better than both Canon and Nikon. Jared has issues with the Nikon focusing on the eyelash too much and it appears to be as the focus box for Canon/Nikon is too big compared to Sony.

But Nikon absolutely destroys Sony and Canon in its all new Tree AF haha

David Arbogast wrote in post #18863146
So I got a new lens lately, but for various reasons haven't gotten much chance to use it yet. Last weekend my upper front tooth, which had a root canal 35 years ago, decided to chip 50% off. Got a temporary tooth put in on Tuesday and I'm just now feeling good.

I did get out to take a few pictures, but the light was really bad for the most part. Things I like about the Sony FE 100mm GM is it's just insanely sharp. The background obliteration is mostly limited, but it has a look that I like.

To be perfectly honest about my primary motivation in getting the 100GM is that I've decided, for quite some time, that I want a three lens prime kit of 24mm, 50mm, and 100mm. There is, of course, a Sigma 105mm, but that is too ridiculously huge for what I want. The 90mm G is another consideration, but I'm fixated on at least 100mm. Other options are the Zeiss Makro Planar 100mm and the CV 110mm, both amazing lenses, but they have no AF. I want my 24, 50, 100 kit to be all AF.

Naturally the FE 100 GM is light-limited (max 5.6), so I'll probably be keeping my Batis 135mm for when I want to shoot longer, but need the additional stops. OTOH it's entirely possible that I don't need a faster t-stop than 5.6 for my long lens.

Here are a couple of hastily captured images to show a little rendering. The detail the lens picks up in the wood chairs or flower petals is pretty great imo. Although the background blur behind the chairs is subtle, it's also smooth and clean. I hope to give the lens a lot more work tomorrow.

IMAGE LINK: https://flic.kr/p/Sa2z​q8 Garden Rest by David Arbogast, on Flickr

IMAGE LINK: https://flic.kr/p/TN2t​ou Up Close with a Hydrangea by David Arbogast, on Flickr

Really interesting looking lens David. Congrats on the new lens

You know how anal I am about how OOF foliage renders and you're right, it's really smooth despite the quantity of the blur not being at the level of a really fast f-stop. The thing is because the DOF is larger, you get more detail out of the chairs and pot. Usually when selectively focusing on something outdoors you're trying to balance having enough DOF and detail on your subject without the background getting all gnarly.....Looks like its less of a compromise here.

David Arbogast wrote in post #18863146
So I got a new lens lately, but for various reasons haven't gotten much chance to use it yet. Last weekend my upper front tooth, which had a root canal 35 years ago, decided to chip 50% off. Got a temporary tooth put in on Tuesday and I'm just now feeling good.

I did get out to take a few pictures, but the light was really bad for the most part. Things I like about the Sony FE 100mm GM is it's just insanely sharp. The background obliteration is mostly limited, but it has a look that I like.

To be perfectly honest about my primary motivation in getting the 100GM is that I've decided, for quite some time, that I want a three lens prime kit of 24mm, 50mm, and 100mm. There is, of course, a Sigma 105mm, but that is too ridiculously huge for what I want. The 90mm G is another consideration, but I'm fixated on at least 100mm. Other options are the Zeiss Makro Planar 100mm and the CV 110mm, both amazing lenses, but they have no AF. I want my 24, 50, 100 kit to be all AF.

Naturally the FE 100 GM is light-limited (max 5.6), so I'll probably be keeping my Batis 135mm for when I want to shoot longer, but need the additional stops. OTOH it's entirely possible that I don't need a faster t-stop than 5.6 for my long lens.

Here are a couple of hastily captured images to show a little rendering. The detail the lens picks up in the wood chairs or flower petals is pretty great imo. Although the background blur behind the chairs is subtle, it's also smooth and clean. I hope to give the lens a lot more work tomorrow.

IMAGE LINK: https://flic.kr/p/Sa2z​q8 Garden Rest by David Arbogast, on Flickr

IMAGE LINK: https://flic.kr/p/TN2t​ou Up Close with a Hydrangea by David Arbogast, on Flickr

interesting, that was not the lens I was expecting...I was thin king about trying it out tomorrow at the BeAlpha event...but I don't know if they will let me have two lenses...the 135GM has to be one that I get...I will be there early to do my best to snag one for a while...

This past week marked the start of my 19th year at my current employer...I tend to make that the week that I update my profile picture for the various places that I have one...and I am learning lighting still, and wanted to play around with the AD400, the new Imaging Edge App on the phone...and mirroring my phone to my new TV...that app made getting myself in front of the camera the right way a lot easier, and it meant I could see the resulting image right away...if only it wouldn't crash so much...anyway..thought I would share one of my favorites, I had to remove my glasses to get the a9 to find my eye, and then without moving much put my glasses back on...at f/1.4 it kept finding the corner of my glasses and that left my eye way OOF...I have never cared for pictures of myself...like most photographers, but I have been trying to learn more about posing methods to improve the look of the person in front of the camera...the Peter Hurley tutorials have been incredibly insightful.

mystik610 wrote in post #18863308
Really interesting looking lens David. Congrats on the new lens

You know how anal I am about how OOF foliage renders and you're right, it's really smooth despite the quantity of the blur not being at the level of a really fast f-stop. The thing is because the DOF is larger, you get more detail out of the chairs and pot. Usually when selectively focusing on something outdoors you're trying to balance having enough DOF and detail on your subject without the background getting all gnarly.....Looks like its less of a compromise here.

This lens is like having a distance-based Photoshop gaussian blur built into the lens because that’s exactly how it renders. It’s not a proper bokeh, but I do appreciate how that effect has the potential to pop a subject out of its background. Not precisely a ‘3D’ pop imo, but more like a subject cut-out pop.

TRhoads wrote in post #18863321
This past week marked the start of my 19th year at my current employer...I tend to make that the week that I update my profile picture for the various places that I have one...and I am learning lighting still, and wanted to play around with the AD400, the new Imaging Edge App on the phone...and mirroring my phone to my new TV...that app made getting myself in front of the camera the right way a lot easier, and it meant I could see the resulting image right away...if only it wouldn't crash so much...anyway..thought I would share one of my favorites, I had to remove my glasses to get the a9 to find my eye, and then without moving much put my glasses back on...at f/1.4 it kept finding the corner of my glasses and that left my eye way OOF...I have never cared for pictures of myself...like most photographers, but I have been trying to learn more about posing methods to improve the look of the person in front of the camera...the Peter Hurley tutorials have been incredibly insightful.

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Congrats on 19 years Travis! That's quite an accomplishment in this day and age.

I need to take some profile headshots too. I'm very rarely in front of the camera.

TRhoads wrote in post #18863321
This past week marked the start of my 19th year at my current employer...I tend to make that the week that I update my profile picture for the various places that I have one...and I am learning lighting still, and wanted to play around with the AD400, the new Imaging Edge App on the phone...and mirroring my phone to my new TV...that app made getting myself in front of the camera the right way a lot easier, and it meant I could see the resulting image right away...if only it wouldn't crash so much...anyway..thought I would share one of my favorites, I had to remove my glasses to get the a9 to find my eye, and then without moving much put my glasses back on...at f/1.4 it kept finding the corner of my glasses and that left my eye way OOF...I have never cared for pictures of myself...like most photographers, but I have been trying to learn more about posing methods to improve the look of the person in front of the camera...the Peter Hurley tutorials have been incredibly insightful.

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Nice portrait. Some don’t like the look of a thin dof portrait - especially if only one eye is in focus - I’ve always liked the look myself. I hope you find the 135GM to your liking.

19 years! Wow. I only worked at two companies in my career, but I worked each company twice.

David Arbogast wrote in post #18863346
This lens is like having a distance-based Photoshop gaussian blur built into the lens because that’s exactly how it renders. It’s not a proper bokeh, but I do appreciate how that effect has the potential to pop a subject out of its background. Not precisely a ‘3D’ pop imo, but more like a subject cut-out pop.

Yeah I was going to make a comment that it looks like a gaussian blur created in post. I don't mean that in a bad way...I often do that in post when I have to stop down in the field to get enough DOF.

3D pop is overrated IMO. More of a gear-head "OMG look what my lens can do!" (ahem FM forums) type thing but usually when people chase it in real photos in doesn't work for the composition. I personally have a habit of stopping down too much that I've been learning to break. More important to get enough detail on your subject 1st and keep the backgrounds from being too distracting second...that's why the 100GM has always piqued my interest.

From Carson's kindergarten graduation. He's a really emotional guy and was so proud of himself he was about to cry lol. Usually I find kindergarten graduations are kinda petty, but he had a particularly tough year. We started him at the highly stuck up privately school his older brother had been in for 6 years. Carson is a bit more 'unconventional' than his brother, and didn't fit the rigid mold that the head-master (that's what he calls himself) at his school. Instead of trying to work with him, they would deflect on their responsibilities as educators and blame his behavior on everything else and it took a toll on his self confidence. They went as far as to try to get us to test him for behavioral disorders, so we ripped both him and his brother out of that school in the middle of the year and put him in a montessori school where he's been flourishing. Academically, he tested at a second and third grade level.

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