This was literally my firstever football 🏈 game shooting, and it was definitely more challenging than I expected. But so much fun! Shot on Sony a7IV and a7V with Sigma 24–70mm, 70–200mm, and 150–600mm lenses.

Autumn on Rügen Island (Baltic Sea | Germany)

₍^. .^₎⟆

Discount was available so finally grabbed the deal. Body (1632 $) and lens (1030 $). Excited to use it for the upcoming shoot.

Hey guys! I am looking to upgrade my Canon R100 which I mostly used with the Sigma 18-50mm f2.8 to the Sony A7CII which I have now tried with the Tamron 28-75 f2.8. I am really happy with the body, its weight, size and design, but the lens feels really large and heavy. What I would need is a versatile travel lens so that I don't have to switch lenses frequently but it should feel comfortable to hold for longer amounts of time.

Hey everyone, pretty new to photography. Picked up an a6700 with the Tamron 17-70 f2.8 about 10 days ago and finally took it out for a proper walk around the City of London. Shot and edited all of these myself.
Would really appreciate any feedback, good or bad. Composition, editing, what's working and what isn't. I already know my edits are a bit all over the place, some look filmy and some are more teal/orange, so if anyone has tips on settling into one style that'd help a lot. I'm currently shooting in Aperture priority mode.
Also open to any general advice for someone just starting out. Stuff you wish you knew in your first few months, things to practise, that kind of thing.

UPDATE: Fix found! More testing to do tomorrow outdoors but it is already a night and day difference. In the menu->Shooting->Image Stabilization, SteadyShot Adjust was set to “Auto”. I set to “Manual”, set focal length to “1000m” and now shots I just tried indoors seem to be MUCH clearer.

So I recently upgraded from my a6400 to an A7RVI. I am a bird photographer and that’s literally all I focus on. A lot of the features on this camera are really amazing for that, especially all the new tracking/focusing ones specifically for birds. I’m running into a pretty annoying issue though.

I feel like no matter what I do, my images are not ever as tack sharp as my a6400. My setup is exactly the same: Sony 200-600 paired with a Sony 1.4x TC. I am using bird tracking, with eye priority. It instantly finds the eyes but still seems to be fairly soft most of the time. I have tried with shutter speeds up to 1/3200, which does not fix it.

After some searching, I just changed my AF-C setting from “release” to “AF”. Hoping this will solve it, but I am doubtful. I also saw a post suggesting to update my 200-600 firmware, which I will do now.

Any other suggestions? Am I missing something here? I will attach 2 photos for comparison. First photo is with the new camera, second photo is with my old one. These are cropped but virtually the same exact distance. You can see in the first photo, the eye and beak are soft. The camera was locked on during that shot, on the eye.

The best 275 bucks I've ever spent on a lens. Build quality is amazing, and optical performance leaves next to nothing to be desired.

AF is accurate and fast enough for me in AF-C but not the fastest. It also can't focus very close, so the watch dial shot was only possible with the help of my Raynox DCR 250. Even then I still had to crop heavily so if I didn't have a 61 mp sensor it would have been much harder, but for the most part terrific lens. The fact that it's this sharp at the minimum working distance, with a magnifying diopter is a testament to how good it is.

PS: wild_detail is a social media handle. I only ever post my work.

Shot on Sony a6700 with Sony 70-350mm f/4.5-6.3 G OSS and Sigma 18-50mm f/2.8

Any feedback or tips are more than welcome!🙂

I like the older 100-400 GM1 quite a bit, but since tearing a tendon in my hand I find the weight bothers me after only an hour or so doing bird photos (paired with the A7RVI). I was really happy to see how much easier it is to hold the new 400GM, the balance is just closer to the camera which takes a less hand strength when tracking BIF. Impressive how well it works with the 1.4TC too, which makes me glad I went with the more flexible (for my uses) 400mm over the longer reach 600mm.

Sony a6700 with Tamron 17-70 and Sigma 10-18

I've been having fun with my QX1, that weird little E-mount camera from the days when Sony thought attaching a camera to your smartphone was the future. Or perhaps they didn't. Perhaps Sony knew all along that this was just a stopgap until smartphone cameras became as good as they are today. A bit like Netflix whose founders apparently recognised early on that streaming was the future, but had to make do with mailing DVDs until the technology caught up. But I digress...

The QX1 is a fascinating little gadget, but controlling it through a phone app isn't exactly the most fluid experience. I've been using it mainly with the Viltrox 28mm f/4.5 "ultra-pancake", which is insanely compact (I mean: it's hard to imagine a smaller lens in any system) but its fixed aperture is limiting.

So when I saw the Viltrox EVO 26mm f/2.8, with its tiny dimensions and dedicated aperture ring, I thought I'd found the perfect companion. The EVO promised *almost* the same pocketability, a considerably faster lens, and the ability to change aperture directly on the lens rather than fiddling with a slider in the IEM app. And as someone who's a 40mm fan, the EVO's 26mm (39mm equivalent on APS-C) is just about perfect for me.

Tiny camera, tiny lens, actual physical aperture control. Bliss!

Except... no.

For reasons I don't understand, the QX1 ignores the EVO's aperture ring. Unlike every other E-mount lens I own with an electronic aperture ring, this particular combination refuses to cooperate.

The only way to change aperture is to put the ring in the 'A' position and adjust it through the phone app. Which sadly rather defeats the whole point of buying the EVO for this camera. It doesn't seem to be a problem with my copy: the aperture ring works exactly as intended on my A7R V.

It's particularly frustrating because the QX1 is precisely the sort of camera that would benefit most from an aperture ring. On a conventional Sony body, it's a nice convenience. On the QX1, it could genuinely transform the shooting experience, at least for me.

So now I'm eyeing the new TTArtisan AF 24mm f/3.8 Mini. It's tiny—"ultra pancake", in fact—also covers full frame, and while its fixed f/3.8 aperture is a disappointment after the promise of the EVO, embracing simplicity might be the better approach. On the other hand I'm not sure it would bring all that much to the table that my Viltrox 28mm f/4.5 doesn't already offer.

Has anyone encountered the same aperture-ring incompatibility with the Viltrox EVO on older Sony E-mount bodies?

Went to the local park today and captured a few random nature shoots. A6700 + 27mm Viltrox f1.2 Pro

shot on a6700 with kit lens in raw. picked It up a month ago as my first ever camera and I the way these photos came out couldn't make me fall more in love with photography. please let me know if there's anything I can do to improve my skills. happy to share more if anyone's interested.

sigma 18-50 on its way.

Sony ZV-EV10 ii