The Official Head-Case Photography Thread.

[blessingx]

Kinda interesting to compare size of the full frame Sony RX1R III f/2 and the $200 cheaper medium format Fuji GFX100 RF f/4.

[n_maher]

Work has been continuing to use photos that I’ve been shooting for publicity and Congressional communication so I decided that rather than keep shooting with my personal camera that it was high time to request a replacement.  They asked what I wanted so I spec’d the following:

1. Body - Sony A7R5 - I’ve gotten used to the Sony ecosystem through my A7IV and figured what the heck, might as well have all the megapixels.  I don’t need 120FPS so the A9 series was not compelling and while it would have been fun to shoot with an A1II budget was somewhat of a consideration.

2. Lenses - I’ll continue to shoot my A7IV with it’s 24-240mm so figured I should cover an expanded range with this rig and be able to shoot high(er) quality.  So a 24-70mm F2.8 GMII and a 100-4000mm F4.5/5.6 coupled with a 2x teleconverter round out the bag.  

I’ve got the whole shebang with me on vacation to get used to the platform and find its limits (me) but sheesh, 60MP is a lot to work with.  Initial impression is that it’s all very similar to the A7 but doesn’t shoot low light as well.  That won’t be much of a concern at work and if/when night time becomes the right time I’ll switch back to my A7 for those situations.  The 100-400 has as lot of pull and with the 2x, it’s pretty absurd. 

That was lightly touched in LR and just a quick handheld at sunset.  I’ll have to contribute more to the HC coffers if I start pushing up 40MB drink photos.  And 12,800 starts to get a bit noisy so I’ve reduced the max ISO to 3200 for now to see what I can still grab.

And [EDIT] seems like the forum software intelligently down-sampled that image to a more manageable 5MB.

 

It is wild what you can do for fun crops with this much real estate.

[blessingx]

Congrats and nice shots! Curious how the low light noise would compare if you shot the A7R5 in 26MP or 15 modes (or even downsampled the 60MP to 24)?