Sony A6000 – How To Shoot Action Photography – 3 Mandatory Steps by Gary Fong.
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Sony RX100/B Point and Shoot Digital Camera Review (Wrbdigitalcamerareviews).
Sony 18-105 f/4 OSS lens review at Betterfamilyphotos.
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Sony A7II review at DC.fever.
Ramesh: “We recently shot a 15 minute short film using A7r as the main camera and A6000/Nex 7 as camera B. It is an inspirational film in English and hope we can share with your community. We have more exciting projects coming our way, so would like to get feedback from the community too. http://youtu.be/62HH8N_SlWI“
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Sony claims 3 goals for 2015
Ultimate resolution, dynamic range and speed.
Also allthe major cameramakers are known to have been developing foveon like
You stopped in mid sentence?
Technical difficulty beyond my control.
They’ll keep squeezing everything they can out of CMOS sensors until Canikon forces their hand. Until then, color sampling sensor probably stays under wraps.
Nikon will use Sony sensor so they are not actual a factor in the Sony decision
Canon will probably have no choice but to reluctantly buy Sony Color Sampling sensors.
I expect it would be difficult to have both a moving microlens/color filter array and PDAF pixels on the same sensor so I would guess this technology will not appear first on mirrorless E mount cameras.
This may actually have raised A mount from its grave!
Also both Canon and Nikon, while still talking abought ff mirrorless, are talking about it for some time in the distant future.
This may be the second life for SLR and SLT.
I do hope Admin posts more on this topic as it is quite likely to have a major impact on the future of cameras and how we take pictures.
Nikon uses non-Sony sensors in several cameras…
Neither Nikon or Canon are willing to be fully dependent on Sony sensors.
Canon makes thier own sensors for thier more important high end products…therefore will probably not be using the 46mp Sony sensor.
Nikon does not make thier own sensors but chooses to use multiple sources so as not to become dependent on Sony.
They use Sony’s best sensors for thier high end products..such as the 36mp D810 and use other manufacturers for lower level products suxh as the Nikon 1 system.
They will almost certainly use Sony’s best available new sensor and are of course very very very unlikely to use the new Canon sensor.
Sony is therefore to some degree competing with Canon sensors but they are definitely not competing with Nikon sensors.
Nikon is therefore not a factor in Sony’s choice of when to release thier new sensors.
If Sony is developing a Color Sampling sensor with a rapidly moving filter array that the biggest question ishow durable is this sensor that relies totally on moving parts?
This would certainly require very extensive, time consuming testing to determine how long this sensor will last.
When I first heard of this sensor I thought it must discriminate the signals based on wavelength and use all colors ssimultaneously
Instead it relies on an on pixel switching device syncronzed to the movement of the color filter array.
If Sony can somehow manage to seperate the signal portion generated by the differrent wavelength and simaltaneously channel them to seperate channel….and of course miniaturize this wave discrimator to fit on pixel…
The entire color filter array can be eliminated, efficiency would increase at least 400%, and there would be no moving parts so durability wold be increased.
Of coarse I do not currently know of a way to do this…it would need to be invented.
Is it just me or gary’s autofocus demo isnt convincing at all? Lots of misses there and he still praises even though the autofocus lose track already.. Dont get me wrong im not saying af on a6000 is bad, just the video 🙂
His videos are always a bit of a mess and makes me wonder why he doesn’t edit them. To be honest after watching a few of his videos I’m thinking: he should stick to photography, his videos are crap. But when I started with the mirrorless they did give some nice info. He just suffers from the same disease most of the free tutorials do: talktomuchcantbebotheredtoedit syndrome.
He was using the video to demonstrate focus tracking, and that was accomplished rather well. Don’t understand the complaining, as it wasn’t meant to be an entertainment video.
The autofocus does track pretty well, however closer to the end of the video the autofocus isnt tracking properly, yet he kept saying very positive words.. It just doesnt match up to the video he is showing, i would prefer if he honestly say something like “oh look sometimes the autofocus dont work as expected” instead of saying opposite from what he ia showing
Perhaps this part is too concrete for you ‘makes me wonder why he doesn’t edit them.’ so let me explain: He has 1, perhaps 2 minutes of info and demo and does it in7 minutes, he could have cut out the 5 minutes of non info, why do you want his videos to be entertaining this is suppose to be a informative video?
I like your straightforward approach. Totally agree on that last part.
Canon 5D Mark III Compared to the Sony a6000 Focus Test
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9I9ir6k8tw
Does anybody know how good SELP 18-105 G is on Full Frame cameras like A7S? For example, does it provide image circle somewhat large enough to be used in full frame mode? This lens seems like a good option for video, even for full frame cameras (we can use crop mode). I just want to know if I can use it for stills in full frame mode without much vignetting. Thanks!
Sony glasses can be used for photography as well. Just like an app without a phone. Id like to use it for composition with frame lines corresponding to different focal lengths, exposure estimation, etc.
Sony Announces the Development of a Compact, Lightweight Single-Lens Display Module with OLED Technology That Enables Superior Image Quality (Sony.net). >>>Add tracking of users eyes point of focus and voila: automatic AF hands free camera that doesn’t even require isolated computed focus tracking of subject to work. NOT on IPHONE2020 ‘just shoot on’ trolls XD
“Why Sony is better than Leica.” Not if you talking about resale value, that’s for sure.
There were more than a few Leica’s engineered by Minolta and a few of those engineers still work at Sony/Minolta. From an innovation standpoint the A7 platform has already outstripped that of Leica.
I’m aware. I’m strictly speaking of current resale value of gear.
You will loose more money when you sell a digital Leica than a Sony, as long as we’re talking actual dollars and not obtuse percentages of resale versus purchase price.
I’m not a dxomark kind of guy, but I find some of their data helpful. It seems hard to find good objective reviews on Leica glass. I find that dubious at best. I doubt in comparison to some of the higher end glass from both Zeiss and Sigma over the past few years- I doubt Leica has much to offer at this point. But, people faun over the glass- and the glass holds its value.
The funny looking dude is talking about economics of purchase vs. resale. WTF are you going on about.
The previous post- I think I’ve moved beyond the funny looking dude.
You think? You think what? Tell us about Sigma LOL…