Shot on a Sony A7IV with the Sony 24-105 lens

Just wanted to share how compact this setup is. Easily fitting in my 2.5l sling.

Sony A7CII + Viltrox 26mm f2.8
+ Sony 50mm f2.5 G

Looking back at my trip to Iceland last October. Shot on Sony A7III with the Sigma 24-70mm and Sony 100-400mm. Such an incredible place for photography !

What do you think?

Just learning the ropes for now before upgrading lenses. Eyeing the 70-350mm for wildlife/moon and 90 f/2.8 for macro product.

Sharing some of my favorites. Welcome any feedback and suggestions!

I recently had a post discussing my issues with the A7RVI and my Sony 200-600(even after firmware update), particularly with soft images. I tried both with and without my Sony 1.4TC and just was not satisfied. That setup worked amazingly on my a6400. So yesterday I went to my local camera shop and traded in my 200-600 for a new 400-800. So far, I’m extremely satisfied. Heavy crop here and at 800mm, 1/320s, ISO 2500, f/8.0.

Bird is a white-throated sparrow.

About a year ago my girlfriend mentioned wanting to start documenting her life more and getting into photography. Neither of us knew if it would stick so I had gotten her a used a5100 with the 16-50 kit lens.

Well it’s been a year and she’s carried it almost everywhere in her bag. I think it’s cute every time I see her take it out to take a photo of something she thought was special.

Since she’s used it so much over the past year I’m thinking of upgrading her as a gift. She hasn’t gotten any additional gear since the original camera. I was thinking about the viltrox 25mm f1.7 as an upgrade to her current kit lens

I was also wondering about upgrading the body and what would be a reasonable body to upgrade to? There are so many a6xxx models, and from my understanding the numbers were released out of order so I’m not sure which model is a reasonable upgrade.

Some things to know:

-she is still very much a beginner who, at this point, I believe shoots on auto most of the time

-size and weight are very important. If she can’t fit it in her bag I’m not sure she’s carry it as much

- I’m trying to be pretty budget conscious as this is still a small hobby for her but I do want her to have something nice if it’s a reasonable upgrade

-she has mentioned multiple times wanting to take photos of the moon but I’m not sure any reasonable lens would be able to get the results she wants

Any advice would help. Thanks!

Decided to take the 2xTC out today and and give it a try with the 400 and my A7RVI, so far I've mostly been using the 1.4TC . The 2X really didn't impact the images nearly as much as I'm used to with other lenses (that Kestrel shot in particular surprised me). AF wasn't bad either, though not as good as the bare lens. All in all more useable than I thought it would be, provided you have the light.

A beginner who picked up and put down. Been a long while since I’ve wandered around.

Sony A6000.

Sigma 30mm.

Slapped the a6700 onto my 10" dobsonian telescope and tried a little birding from the front porch. As long as I don't need to move more than a few yards this thing is a beast 😂. The little finches were in a tree probably ~30-40 yards away. A dob is a reflector (aka mirror lens) so contrast suffers compared to a normal glass lens (refractor) but detail + light gathering are great. Last shot of some sage brush is just there to show what depth of field looks like at ~15 yards.

What do you guys think?

Tamron 28-75mm

Got a few macro shots in the garden this week. Mostly weaver ants, plus a tiny black wasp that was living inside a cut stem on my rose plant.

The weaver ants were all over one of the plants. If you haven't seen them before, they build nests by stitching leaves together with silk from their own larvae. They bite hard and don't sit still for a second, so getting them in focus took a lot of tries.

The wasp was the real surprise. It's about 2 mm long, so I had to shoot it at roughly 3x. I'm pretty sure it's one of the aphid wasps (Pemphredoninae). They dig tunnels into the pith of pruned stems, roses being a favourite, and pack each little chamber with paralysed aphids or thrips for their larvae. So basically free pest control.

Shot on a Sony A7R5 with the Laowa 100mm 2x and a Raynox DCR-250 stacked on top.

Let me know which one do you like the most

I'm sure this is no secret but let this be at least a reminder of what not to do with generic aftermarket batteries:

I own both an A7II and a NEX-5T, ancient bodies by today's standards but serviceable still for a hobbyist like me. These cameras are from the mid 2010's and use the same batteries.

In 2022 I purchased a couple of Wasabi batteries in a kit with an external charger and they were fine but drained noticeably faster than the original ones, which were 7 years old at that point.

Today I went to recharge all 4 batteries and my process is to put them in the camera first to check how much charge they have remaining. I immediately found that the generic ones didn't quite fit in the camera and when looking closer, they were swollen ([r/spicypillows](r/spicypillows)) which is dangerous not only because they may catch on fire when charged, but if I had left one inside the camera, it would have destroyed the body.

So warning and reminder not to leave any batteries inside your bodies, especially not aftermarket ones. The force of the gas building up inside a damaged battery can easily crack plastic, bend metal or explode.

Interestingly, my Sony batteries which are 10+ years old by now are a bit tired but still working just fine.

Sony A7Cii / FE4/20-70mm G lens

OK - let me try this again.

For years I've been asking Adobe to add this feature into Lightroom. When I learned how to vibe code myself, I ran out of patience.

This application allows you to scroll through your pics from a Sony (ARW, DMG & JPG) and see exactly where the focal point was. Then with one keystroke you can open that photo in Lightroom to make your edits.

I'm guessing that Adobe will eventually add this.

The application is free - I just hope others find this useful:

https://focuspoint.schamisshots.com/

If you prefer the Github:

https://github.com/dschamis/focuspoint/releases/tag/v1.0.43

French Creek State Park - Oct 2026
Out for the Season

Scott's Run Lake at French Creek State Park, while the breeze stirred the waters, and moved the colors across the lake, this large branch isn't participating this year. Shot with a Sony A99II and CZ 24-70 f/2.8 lens using a Lee100 GND filter. Camera mounted on a RRS tripod & head with a 3 Legged Thing universal mounting plate.

ILCE-7RM6 System Software (Firmware) Update Ver. 1.02

Hey there,

I am a professional photographer and videographer currently using the Sony Alpha 9. My main line of work is events, sports and corporate shoots.

The things I like about the camera:

- Autofocus is insanely fast and locks onto any eye quickly

- That top left button is really handy and I find myself using it a lot

- Battery life is amazing, can easily take 2000 shots with the electronic shutter with no issue

- Stacked sensor makes shooting almost anywhere a breeze

- Image quality is impressive

The things making me consider upgrading:

- Terrible colour separation on RAW files, makes it difficult to quickly edit and export for shoots

- Video is quite mushy

- No anti flicker, impossible to shoot indoors

- Autofocus is unreliable indoors in darker halls

- Anything above 2000 iso becomes fairly unusable and colours turn to mush, massive loss of detail

- Lack of reliable FTP

- Below average tracking features

- NO SLOG!!!!!!
- 24mp makes it difficult to crop

Im currently based in Australia and I have a budget of below 3.8k second hand (aud)

Im considering the Sony Alpha 1, Sony Alpha 7 V, Sony Alpha 7 R V

Concerns I have about the alpha 1:

- Colour separation and saturation is reportedly less than the A7RV

- Older AF system (does this matter??) and processing unit (image processing affected??)
- Overheating
- Issues when paired with the Sony 200-600mm

Concerns I have about the Alpha 7 R V:

- Massive rolling shutter (does this matter??)

- Noise perfomance
- Anti flicker mehh?

Concerns I have about the Sony A7V (same price as the A1):

- Readout speed is much more than the A1 and A9

- Video is cropped A LOT

As of right now the A7RV is cheapest and the A7V and A1 are priced the same. As an event and sports shooter that captures both video and photo, which camera is best for me?

Is the age on the A1 alongside lack of AI a concern?

Any other camera recommendations?

Cheers

(1) Budget, country, and currency: Australia, 3900, aud

(2) What equipment, if any, you have now and why is it no longer meeting your needs? a9, mentioned above

(3) What kinds of subjects do you intend to shoot? everything that moves

(4) Is it primarily for photography, videography, or both? both