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)? 

Edited Monday at 01:45 AM by blessingx

[blessingx]

Iiu Susiraja’s Self-Portraits Are More Than a Dare 

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/iiu-susirajas-self-portraits-are-more-than-a-dare

https://web.archive.org/web/20250721014944/https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/iiu-susirajas-self-portraits-are-more-than-a-dare?mbid=social_bluesky 

 

[n_maher]

12 hours ago, blessingx said:

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)? 

I’ll have to tinker a bit more and see.  For now I’m just shooting native to see what comes straight out of the camera.  I’d love to have enough time to tinker with raw files but reality is that I don’t, so I try not to kid myself into taking them and then having to deal with the massive file bloat.  

Honestly, if they’d followed through with the A7IV this year like originally planned that probably would have been the camera of choice.  The A7IV has been game-changing for me.  It’s got all the resolution that I need, exceptional low-light capabilities, and was not hard to adapt to coming from Nikon.  This stuff is still mind-numbingly expensive but life has moved on to the point where it was not an impossible reach to pick one up. 

[Knuckledragger]

I used to have a friend from .ca who lived outside of the Toronto area.  His parents owned a BMW dealership, so I called him "The Torontonian Trustafarian."  TT for short.  He endured a good decade of "TT" jokes.  If we were still friends, he'd be extra annoyed with me today as all three TTArtisan lenses I bought during prime day arrived.  I made it a point to use all three.  I favored the 75mm F/1.5 the most, to the surprise of no one.  The 100mm F/2.8 Bubble Bokeh is odd and I need to use it more.  The 11mm F/2.8 Fisheye is neat, but I have no idea what I'm doing with a fisheye lens.

75mm, wide open.  This wood pile is my new favorite subject.

 

100mm wide open, I think.  The aperture ring is in an odd spot on all of the TTArtisan lenses and was not used to adjusting them.

 

My neighbors across the street are and old Vineyard family.  Mr. Norton died earlier this year at 93.  His family do a top not keeping up the farm.  They replaced half a dozen rails in their fence (which are expensive AF.)  I think I mentioned I have no blinkered idea what I'm doing with a fisheye.