Davey

The a6500 smokes them both for autofocus, with the Olly performing terribly at times. Just a shame that the Sony makes Max's brother look like the Hulk.

The original PDF had a BETA set of instructions for the fs7 with a note saying 'partial comparability'. The updated PDFs omitted these.

Exactly what I was thinking

I envied the photographers at my last wedding the other week. Dirty big pro looking Nikons - covering 24-200 at f2.8 between them and shooting RAW with only one lens change each to contend with the entire day. Not a care in the world about exposure and WB (within reason). And then there was me with four lenses, a7s, a7sii, dying batteries, changing WB and exposure between the main hall, outside, the glass reception area, back into the main hall, outside again, do please remember to change WB by 2000k when setting up on the tripods at the last moment and don't blow the dress out. First time I shot RAW photos was an absolute revelation and I lost my respect for the generic wedding photographer charging £800 for what he does. ALL you have to think about (outside extreme conditions) is the art of composition - you either have that or you don't - and then clack, clack, clack away with your massive flash ruining all my slow motion footage with your white bars across my screen. I might keep videography as a hobby and switch to photography when it comes to weddings. Or save up and film weddings in RAW video...

Saw that footage weeks ago - it looks like it has been stolen, borrowed, doctored, changed. Just check the guy's YouTube description for that video. Anybody doing that is just looking for short term views. Utterly ridiculous.

All I know is that Google Drive only allow 5GB individual file sizes. Whenever mine are bigger I just trim them into smaller files using Quicktime (not losing any footage) and upload them sequentially with some overlap at either end of each file so as to be sure that I have everything. Perhaps Dropbox is referring to folders containing individual files being of any size - I have folders containing clips with a total value of 20GB plus but with no individual file bigger than 5GB.

Very impressive. The acting was so good that I forgot to look for any issues with the camera. I guess that if the story is good enough, the vast majority of people will not care one jot for anything else.

Let me know if somebody finds a way. My perfectly balanced £600 DS1 still doesn't work properly after a year and many calibrations. For the time being I have returned to the stone age and bought a £35 SureShot off Amazon. Within ten minutes of slicing the box open yesterday I had my A7sii and 28mm lens gliding around the house, up stairs, around corners without a single problem.

To be fair, images that I have shot look worlds apart on my mid 2011 iMac, Note 4, late 2015 5k iMac, 37" LG television, the wife's Galaxy and the kids' iPads. I much prefer the originals that existed before I hit the record button - never over saturated, over sharpened, perfectly exposed, no chromatic aberration. I just wish we could reteieve the data directly from our memories. Without compression artifacts, of course. The closest we get to that is when we replay those images in dreams.

Probably a Canon of some description. Never used one but their images are the best I have seen for flattering people - and it is people that I tend to film more than, say, aardvarks or buildings.

They have good reviews from buyers on forums. The subject of SLR Hut always comes up in the context of whether or not they are legitimate due to the low prices. To do what they do has led people to suggest they deal with grey imports, which could potentially cause problems with returns and warranties. I ended up paying £500 extra for my a7sii by going through Wex because I simply wanted some peace of mind.

Mushy at 3200 even with a low shutter speed and 1.4 glass in what is a well lit scene as far as 'low light' tests go. 1600 looks passable, mind, after YouTube has done its compression. Either this is faked to make things look worse than they are or some of those clean 6400 examples out there have employed some trickery.

CVP and Wex Photographic. That's in my experience - not necessarily anybody else's. I particularly like Wex because whenever I have ordered from them (apart from one item that I knew wasn't in stock when I ordered it) the delivery of the goods has been lightning fast.

Yep. When I did my tests I was desperate to just have a tiny pinch of raised highlights or to move the red luminosity slider in Color Finale 0.002%, but that would have defeated the object of the tests. What I did find out is that I have a minimal (and I mean minimal) amount of work to do to correct images BEFORE I go about applying a look, whereas previously I would have to spend a tonne of time just getting the right base from which to work.

There are tonnes of plug-ins out there for around the £40 mark - just look on YouTube.

Mine arrived within a minute. Seemed automatic to me, but I might have just timed it right.

That looks like the only lens many will ever need.

That's how I used to work. Got some great shots sometimes because the wind would gently blow the camera around and I would just pivot around the vertical axis with my feet. Nimble footwork, hand position, subtle wrist rotation and keeping your body at the same height to the floor using your knees are as important as getting perfect balance. A slightly off balance steadicam will always produces better results in experienced hands than a perfectly balanced unit in inexperienced hands. Just a warning for any newbies - the learning curve for both balancing and operating can lead to alcohol dependence.

Will check it out later but counsel you to check every review going for the Merlin - some right horror stories out there and I have never seen any seller with any more than three star averages. I got great results using a Hague MMC for years, able to balance it in seconds and practically dance with it. The Merlin was just a cosmetically superior steadicam but without the ease of balance and very few good demos on YouTube - always swinging off balance, lurching, bobbing.

When you watch ICE by Griffin Hammond, it must be fair to assume that they don't have a clue at DP when it comes to actually filming anything on both a technical and artistic level. Good job I am not a conspiracy theorist because I would swear that their effort was sabotage on behalf of other camera companies they have a good relationship with.

Used EOSHD Pro Color at a wedding on Saturday - Phase 0 on the a7sii and the a6500 settings on the a7s. Worked a treat under poor lighting indoors in the day and mixed lighting indoors at night with both cameras producing results that needed little work in post. Probably saved me about 20 hours trying to correct everything and generally making a mess of things.

Sorry, but that looked drab to me. Perhaps it was the many browns and awful production, but it looked (apart from a couple of shots) like it was shot on a bog standard bridge camera. The focus transition mode shot was nice but all the hand held shots looked like they were filmed by a complete novice.

I have 350GB of archived material on Google Drive, as well as on three separate external hard drives and some footage that is edited down saved as private videos on YouTube (three of which are already 45yrs old). i guess that if I die before ever putting the footage on discs, then nobody will know how to get it all off the cloud. The wife wouldn't have a clue, though she knows there are thousands of photos and dozens of hours of 1080 and 4k video floating around in the ether. Perhaps I should do what I was going to suggest - to put all your stuff up on the cloud and leave instructions / passwords in a safe deposit box. Certainly do not rely on any kind of physical storage lasting any great length of time.

That's what I did for the DS1. The branded batteries came in a good 5mm short of the Chinese made '18650' batteries that came with the unit. So I would advise caution when buying any extras ahead of getting exact specifications and measurements for anything that comes from tiny Chinese factories.

Yes, my a7s is cleaner at 25,600 than at 3200. I just cannot shoot everything at 25,600. Really disappointed with the camera. My A7sii is clean across the board. Edit - I turned noise reduction back on (was advised never to use it) and the difference is startlingly noticeable at 3200 through 12800. I am happy again. I used the 55mm f1.8 on my A7sii just ten hours ago at a wedding reception party, as it happens. The autofocus is poor (I have long been aware of this) but there are times when I have to use it over manual focus. Fortunately, I only needed montage shots of five seconds length - people moving all over the place at high speed on a dancefloor where ISO8000 was needed at around f2.2 and ten feet distance. Five seconds is about the longest it held focus in the same plane, and that was with the shutter half depressed. Still my favourite lens for more controlled conditions.