SLT mirror removal made easy (Dpreview forum)
[shoplink 3003]Sony NEX-5[/shoplink] and 16mm at ISO 6400 on the Light Rail! (Steve Huff)
LA-EA1 adapter
The new Silkypix
SLT mirror removal made easy (Dpreview forum)
[shoplink 3003]Sony NEX-5[/shoplink] and 16mm at ISO 6400 on the Light Rail! (Steve Huff)
LA-EA1 adapter
The new Silkypix
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Bad story about the LA-EA1 adapter. How difficult can it be for Sony to hire some decent engineers like those Minolta used to have in the 80s?
They should hire me 🙂 *the one that founds out this issue*
Oh… wow… that’s awesome, that you can so easily take the mirror off 🙂 Looks like A55 just became almost the dream for astrophotography 😀 😉
So my out of focus circles aren’t perfect… yawn!
Seriously? this is the kind of thing photographers are worries about these days. How about we start focusing on things that are IN FOCUS, rather than things that are OUT OF FOCUS.
We might start getting better photos that way.
“bokeh quality” It’s sad that this is even a topic to discuss… uneven light circles… gimme a f@#$ing break
Warning: Doing it often might cost you focus accuracy.
Avesta : some photographs like to have full control of everything when they take a photograph, including out of focis areas. You might be the kind of photographer who don’t care about what your camera/lens does provoded you don’t notice it immediately in your everyday photography, but please let perfecionnist photographers care about what they want.
If the photographer is that picky, what are they doing with a NEX? The NEX is a great camera, but really, if one is that picky, get an A900.
I agree with chrisb… The nex is just the portable camera I use, and I’ve used it with both the 85mm 1.4 zeiss as well as the 24mm 2.0 zeiss. I don’t see any of the cut-offs in my pics that are referred to in the examples, and even if they were there I wouldn’t really care. All my energy as a “perfectionist” goes towards the objects/subjects being photographed as well as the lighting.
Being a perfectionist that worries about round blurry dots doesn’t necessarily make you a good photographer either… and isn’t that really what cameras are for in the end, taking photographs?
I think the a850 or the a900 would indeed suit you more.
Well, I’m so picky I even prefer APSC sensors with FF lenses, so no A900 for me.
Why ? Because on FF, FF lenses (apart from 135 STF) have what is called mechanical vigneting that ends up adding vignetting (I don’t care about that) and -more importantly- turning out of focus ligths into cat’s eyes shapes I don’t like.
And I love liveview, tilt screen, discretion,compacity and rangefinder lenses. The only reason I still have a reflex is for fast AF and viewfinder for some sports, and good flash capabilities the Nex doesn’t have.
And my energy as a perfectionist takes everything in account, even out of focus blur. Don’t assume I think -only- of that.
So, from all that I assume you still support the NEX5 considering it’s giving you everything you want… regardless of a line that cuts off your circles in the extreme background
Nice seeing my video on SAR, hope you enjoy. Only one note: DO NOT ever let your screwdriver slip under the grey frame. It will scratch the plastic mirror and this wil set you back 93 euros in Italy (the good news is the part is available for sale on request)
If you respect that i can assure you that shooting a video of it is way, way more difficult than removing the mirror.
Cheers
C
My dream is Sony offering the options of video removal, HDR removal, scenes mode removal and many other useful removals. I’ll buy such camera the moment it comes out!
It’s here already! It’s called the a900
And what use would removing the HDR & scene functions have? removing the scene modes from the *dial* — that’s a big plus, but otherwise it really is pointless, as with HDR feature removal. If you don’t like that feature, don’t use it. 😛
It’s all about money, dear colleagues.
In some happy future time people won’t buy ready-made cameras, but they’ll pre-order the features they need, and each feature will be separately paid for. To hell with bells’n’whistles. Every user’s camera will fit him like a glove and he’ll be able to afford more.
Nice dream, isn’t it?
Hope you understand it doesn’t work like this.
Probably never will.
1) There are only so many camera models a company can develop and manufacture (you can’t have the same camera in 10 versions, even 2 versions, like a33 and a55 is a bit too much, so it seems);
2) There are time constraints – must release a new camera once in a while (say, every 6 month), or the competition takes the lead (in market terms, at least);
So the management must make these decisions: if feature X costs Y to develop (in terms of engineers and time required), adds Z to the camera cost and is estimated to boost sales by A percent, is it worth it?
Also must take into consideration that for many improvements, benefit/cost ratio is non-linear. I’d guess it is much harder to decrease high ISO noise by 10%, then by 1% – probably much more then 10 times harder.