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I think the main upgrade in the a77 II is the autofocus, though there is supposed to be some new noise reduction scheme for high iso shooting. Though, coming from an a300 you'll see a big difference going to the regular a77, or any other of the higher model DSLR's.
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The A-58 will be a nice upgrade, but do know you're moving to the SLT line. Sony's OLED viewfinders are really good, but expect a transition. Also it has a more traditional hotshoe, so you'll need a converter or something if you have a Minolta mount flash.
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There's not any adapters that catch the aperture arms in the older MF lenses as far as I know. The NEX and A7 have an exposure guide in full Manual mode though. On the lower right, above the ISO in NEX mode is a box with M.M on it, and when the number next to it is -0.3 or 0.0 your picture is most likely exposed correctly. As a fellow glasses wearer, with the EVF on the mirrorless cameras I can just take my glasses off to use it since the screen inside it is close enough that it's clear.
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Jun 26, 2014 13:45
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Yeah, it also does the obvious changing of how the preview looks too. He might have that setting off, or bright sun can keep the viewfinder/screen from being accurate. I was just pointing out the other alternative.
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Jun 26, 2014 23:43
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Pretty sure he's talking about how the rear screen has crazy glare making it nearly unusable in sunlight. If you can't get your eye just right on the viewfinder with glasses you can get too much light in there and get equally bad glare. e: You can also just shoot in Aperture priority mode and let the camera do all the work and adjust the aperture with the lens ring. Karasu Tengu fucked around with this message at 15:27 on Jun 27, 2014 |
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Jun 27, 2014 15:24
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They should still work with normal TTL mode, just the fancier ADI mode will be automatically disabled.
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You really wouldn't want an older full frame camera for birding, I'd look into an A77 or one of the other newer crop SLT cameras. They've made big improvements to autofocus and ISO performance recently, and you won't have to deal with cropping out 60%+ of the frame to get the image you want.
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 Here's a graph of about what the camera decides in the auto modes.
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KEH gives a good price most of the time, and it's a quick and easy process to do. I did sell one of my lenses to Amazon through their trade in program, since they gave $100 of Amazon credit, while KEH would offer me $40 cash. Amazon's trade in also worked pretty easily.
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KinkyJohn posted:Has anybody here switched over from canon to sony entirely? If so, what would you say are the pros and cons? Do you think it is worth investing in a sony system in the long run (as in, is the general consensus that they will stick around for a while and keep innovating like they are?) They're sure to stick around and keep innovating since they're supplying sensors to at least half the market right now. The main thing to look out for is that they really really like to release 60 camera bodies a year, and maybe two firmware updates. What exactly are you using it for though?
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Autofocus is slow as gently caress, a few lenses don't really work right. Otherwise it should be fine.
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Nov 11, 2014 18:49
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Metabones has a list for tested lenses, the cheaper knock off ones can be expected to basically be the same but possibly slower AF and maybe aps-c only.
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Nov 12, 2014 07:47
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It should from something like the A or EF adapters, but what would it read from a Leica M dumb adapter?
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Combat Pretzel posted:Apparently the display on the back of the A7II has RGBW pixel structure. I hope it isn't that terrible poo poo that failed hard on these Motorola smartphones two years ago. Almost every portable LCD screen uses that now, except for Samsung's RGBG array. Maybe this means the A7ii will be the first that can actually be read in the goddamn sun.
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Yeah, the display has been used a lot, and the issue with the Motorola ones is that they had awful DPI anyway. With higher DPI screens most of the issues aren't present. Presumably the actual viewfinder will still be the OLED RGB array/display they used in the previous viewfinders so it shouldn't affect actual shooting much.
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Nov 30, 2014 18:30
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That's probably how Sony's works too, since you can generally only pick 200/400/800 etc, though auto ISO will sometimes step in and say 320 or whatever.
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It's mostly comparing it to Fuji's constant updates and adding new features. The part that's skipped over is that Sony cameras don't really have much that needs to be added, and most of the Fuji features are things that Sony's had since the e-mount launch.
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That looks like you got a really bad copy, it shouldn't fringe like that at all.
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Sounds to me like you don't need fullframe, save some bucks and get the a6000 and a good lens/adapter with it instead of an a7 and a mediocre lens.
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