Sony Lounge Thread MKIII (All Sony cameras welcome)

MedicineMan4040 wrote in post #18419775
You guys are way too kind.
But know I'm down for at least an hour. I was out back setting up bird shots for Poof and a macro
set up and discovered an underground Yellow-jacket nest the hard way. 15 hits before I could get away
and I half-way up a ladder when the hits started. The worst one on the big toe, a jacket was trapped in my
sandal!
So be careful out there.

We dont have yellow jackets in phoenix ...... just killer bees

eriet30 wrote in post #18419912
We dont have yellow jackets in phoenix ...... just killer bees

.......which you casually brush off as they massively swarm and sting you while hiking in 120° heat through terrain densely packed with wildly aggressive rattlesnakes and charging gila monsters and screaming-agony-inflicting scorpions and man-eating impaler cacti and dozens and dozens and dozens of merciless heavily armed blue crystal meth drug-runners.

I've always thought life in the Phoenix has got to be pretty extreme. Critters I can cope with. Extreme heat? Nope. Can't do that. Would love to visit some time though - a part of the country I've never been too.

APS-C (a6500) question.
Just received a Touit 12mm e-mount today....bought used off FredMiranda.
AF not working...only peak focusing...never can get a focusing square. Dud?
So I'm manually focusing using peaking and in DMF it automatically zooms in for critical
focus, I'm good with that, but I thought the Touit line was AF.
Thoughts please.

MedicineMan4040 wrote in post #18419919
APS-C (a6500) question.
Just received a Touit 12mm e-mount today....bought used off FredMiranda.
AF not working...only peak focusing...never can get a focusing square. Dud?
So I'm manually focusing using peaking and in DMF it automatically zooms in for critical
focus, I'm good with that, but I thought the Touit line was AF.
Thoughts please.

The Zeiss Touit 12mm f/2.8 Lens (Sony E-Mount) is a wide-angle prime lens designed specifically for use on APS-C-sized image sensors, and as such provides a 35mm-equivalent focal length of 18mm. This lens is compatible with Sony E mirrorless cameras and supports all camera functions, including autofocus and exposure control.

Ha! not yet on mine...hoping I'm missing a simple menu setting.

Oh yeah menu help please. Just put the Touit on the 6300 and instant focus with green square
as I'd expect. Can't be that hard. Will have to compare menu items between the a6500 and a6300.....always
a puzzle.

Dadgummed switch to MF was up.

Ok that's my second big dummy moment of the day! Sorry to waste your time guys all is good

David Arbogast wrote in post #18419918
.......which you casually brush off as they massively swarm and sting you while hiking in 120° heat through terrain densely packed with wildly aggressive rattlesnakes and charging gila monsters and screaming-agony-inflicting scorpions and man-eating impaler cacti and dozens and dozens and dozens of merciless heavily armed blue crystal meth drug-runners.

I've always thought life in the Phoenix has got to be pretty extreme. Critters I can cope with. Extreme heat? Nope. Can't do that. Would love to visit some time though - a part of the country I've never been too.

I grew up in the beautiful lush green NW Oregon and Washington. Thought desert people were crazy.

The only other place I would want to live now is here or the east side of the Baja. The desert is so much more alive than the forests of oregon. Painful yes harsh yes dry dry dry yes. but amazing everytime you turn around.

In the NW I used to hike miles through trees beautiful and big.... to get to a spot where I had a view of something. Here you just find views everywhere.

I am heat adapted now, and walk with cactus points stuck in me without noticing. However I have seen my death. While taking pictures of petroglyphs on a rock cliff I shall die with all my fears...... being stung by killer bees... running and flailing my arms i will run into a rattlesnake and get bit..... fall backwards off the 800 ft cliff bouncing all the way down.... landing in a germ and bug infested pool of muck that used to be a raging river. There I will die a slow and ugly death.

But better than getting hit in the head by a falling fir branch in the Oregon forest (actually knew a guy that died that way)

MedicineMan4040 wrote in post #18419927
Ha! not yet on mine...hoping I'm missing a simple menu setting.

detach..... reattach.

Yep seeing 16-35gm sunstar pics.

Just cant do the 12-24 or 16-35 because of those.

Going to figure this out though spending the day and going to list all of this for sale

A6000 Infra Red; 70-300G, 150-600v1, 24TSE, Old lenses Vivitar Series 1 90 2.5 macro; Tamron 200-400; Canon FD 200/4 & 2x TC; Vivitar 28/2.8 FD; Nikon 70-210; Micron 35; topcon 58 1.4

Going to keep the 10 / 21 getting the 100-400 next week (adorama thinks stock on the 14th)
Then get the A9 selling the 6500

Then downstream picking up a used 24-70GM and moving out the 28 / 55 /and 90 maybe

That will hopefully get me 2 years before I go shopping again...... I hope. Just want the A9 before Fall grrrrr

eriet30 wrote in post #18419947
Yep seeing 16-35gm sunstar pics.

Just cant do the 12-24 or 16-35 because of those.

Do you have a link where you saw the 16-35 gm sunstars?

I think at least once daily I make a self-convincing case for getting each of the three new zooms (12-24, 16-35, 100-400), and subsequently roundtripping back again to the happy-with-what-I've-got place. I've never had such a bad case of almost-GAS.

David Arbogast wrote in post #18419949
Do you have a link where you saw the 16-35 gm sunstars?

I think at least once daily I make a self-convincing case for getting each of the three new zooms (12-24, 16-35, 100-400), and subsequently roundtripping back again to the happy-with-what-I've-got place. I've never had such a bad case of almost-GAS.

near bottom of page http://www.fredmiranda​.com/forum/topic/12552​48/2345?b=2

eriet30 wrote in post #18419950
near bottom of page http://www.fredmiranda​.com/forum/topic/12552​48/2345?b=2

Ok, I see it. Looks good to me. Not near as cool as a Loxia/CV sunstar of course. Tthe extra aperture blades makes it busier, but I still like the look of it just fine.

Speaking of Loxia and CVs, though, that thread is also always tempting me to sell my Batis 18 and 21 and going with the superior Loxia 21 and the superb CV 15.

eriet30 wrote in post #18419932
I grew up in the beautiful lush green NW Oregon and Washington. Thought desert people were crazy.

The only other place I would want to live now is here or the east side of the Baja. The desert is so much more alive than the forests of oregon. Painful yes harsh yes dry dry dry yes. but amazing everytime you turn around.

In the NW I used to hike miles through trees beautiful and big.... to get to a spot where I had a view of something. Here you just find views everywhere.

I am heat adapted now, and walk with cactus points stuck in me without noticing. However I have seen my death. While taking pictures of petroglyphs on a rock cliff I shall die with all my fears...... being stung by killer bees... running and flailing my arms i will run into a rattlesnake and get bit..... fall backwards off the 800 ft cliff bouncing all the way down.... landing in a germ and bug infested pool of muck that used to be a raging river. There I will die a slow and ugly death.

But better than getting hit in the head by a falling fir branch in the Oregon forest (actually knew a guy that died that way)

Great post. Very funny - I'll still have to google Yellow Jackets though

David Arbogast wrote in post #18419973
Ok, I see it. Looks good to me. Not near as cool as a Loxia/CV sunstar of course. Tthe extra aperture blades makes it busier, but I still like the look of it just fine.

Speaking of Loxia and CVs, though, that thread is also always tempting me to sell my Batis 18 and 21 and going with the superior Loxia 21 and the superb CV 15.

I almost had the 18 and didnt get the 21. If I had I think I would have been happy that it had the AF. 21 is just a beast....in the right hands mine still need to pull its full potential but I dont think the 12-24 or the 16-35 really match what it can do

Ah Yellow Jackets are Hornets. We have them in UK though our native ones are more russet coloured than yellow. If you meet one of these in an enclosed space the sound is enough to warn you. If a Wasp is a Lynx helicopter, the Hornet is a Chinook

Having said that take a look at what's arrived in Britain. The Giant Asian Hornet...

http://www.express.co.​uk …r-wasps-uk-invasion-sting

I know peeps don't like links so ...

eriet30 wrote in post #18419950
near bottom of page http://www.fredmiranda​.com/forum/topic/12552​48/2345?b=2

Honestly that looks good. As long as they are skinny and pointy, I'm good. I can show you bad stars, SY 14..... 24-240...