Sony Lounge Thread MKIII (All Sony cameras welcome)

idsurfer wrote in post #18911197
I think it's toast. The sensor isn't blocked and I tried cleaning it. still nothing. Pretty lame.....This now makes for an even less fun camera to use. In reality, the only think I have ever liked about this camera is the size and images. Everything else totally sucks. It's the most awkward I've ever used.. I really hope Sony announces something this month that interests me in a big way.

Later this month there's a aps-c announcement isn't there?

LeeRatters wrote in post #18911200
Later this month there's a aps-c announcement isn't there?

Supposed to be.

I just got off the phone with the Sony repair people. Quoted $380 for the average repair and maybe more. No freakin' way am I going put money into this POS. Pretty lame really....less than three years old with not a lot of miles on it. We'll see what Sony comes up with later this month but who knows....I might have to start thinking outside the box when looking at replacements.

idsurfer wrote in post #18911205
Supposed to be.

I just got off the phone with the Sony repair people. Quoted $380 for the average repair and maybe more. No freakin' way am I going put money into this POS. Pretty lame really....less than three years old with not a lot of miles on it. We'll see what Sony comes up with later this month but who knows....I might have to start thinking outside the box when looking at replacements.

I would try KEH or local repairs.

Charlie wrote in post #18911213
I would try KEH or local repairs.

Thanks....I was thinking local as well.

xpfloyd wrote in post #18911183
Got an email to say my FE35 will be delivered Monday. Exciting!

Nice! I got a backorder notification from adorama today. I preorderd the second it became available

navydoc wrote in post #18911190
Not the most photogenic but here's a shot of a Skipper butterfly at 560mm using the 1.4x on my FE 100-400mm lens.

IMAGE LINK: https://flic.kr/p/2gYq​PdX Skipper by Gene, on Flickr

Why do you always best me! Great one Gene.

LeeRatters wrote in post #18911195
Must be true. I've just read the same, somewhere else, from someone else

Yeah got an email from the actual courier so sounds like it’s already been dispatched from the shop

MedicineMan4040 wrote in post #18911243
Why do you always best me! Great one Gene.

Thank you for saying that but it isn't nice to tell fibs. Your images best mine in just about every category with maybe the exception of spending a lot of time fiddling with editing them.

idsurfer wrote in post #18911214
Thanks....I was thinking local as well.

I tried KEH before, the $100 repair seemed like a great deal, but I think they rejected my particular item. It was fairly quick and I would try them again if I wasnt under warranty. I have a local guy that can do any sort of repair, and it seems he just enjoys that type of thing, not much money involved. He's on top of things, very knowledgeable and a nice resource for camera repairs. He goes beyond a repair and explains things in high detail, he really likes cameras. Hope the fix is trivial, and good luck.

This Skipper was shot using the FE 100-400 only. The screenshot beneath shows why I need to shoot high resolution cameras. The crop is still only 54% of the total image size.

IMAGE LINK: https://flic.kr/p/2gYu​SUL

idsurfer wrote in post #18911214
Thanks....I was thinking local as well.

I had a lens worked on here in town at the local chain. They f’d it up even more and I ended up selling it to KEH for less than $50.

xpfloyd wrote in post #18911183
Got an email to say my FE35 will be delivered Monday. Exciting!

Congrats, I’m so jealous

eriet30 wrote in post #18911160
I was all about "hey I dont need this lens" mostly because I love that the 100-400 does such great macro...... Then you post THAT!!!!!

Eriet, unless you are always wearing a TC on the 100400 keep it. The 200600 is for those of us who constantly need the reach and then some.

Gene second skipper is even better.
Needing more pixels....we're in the same boat.
SOOC and the crop.
Even at 840mm only 972 pixels on the wide side.

For the a9 just not enough pixels for good resolving....at this distance.

Here's one more fully processed