The Sony A73/A7R3/A7S3/A9 Thread

Greebo · 8 Oct 2018 at 16:30

Raymond Lin said:
I'd love to give that a go with the Sigma 20/1.4, 2 more stop of light which will take it down to 12,800 and would look really clean on web size.

Except sadly the sigma 20mm is notoriously poor for astro shots. Otherwise I would have bought it. The 14mm is meant to be good. Same with the sigma 24mm f1.4. Terrible for astro work. That's why I'm looking forward to the sony 24mm F1.4

Raymond Lin · 8 Oct 2018 at 17:29

I heard they, but I have it anyway so would be worth a shot.

Captain · 8 Oct 2018 at 17:34

Is the Sony 24mm 1.8 good for Astro photography?

sHo0sH · 9 Oct 2018 at 10:20

Clov!s said:
Is the Sony 24mm 1.8 good for Astro photography?

Take a look at this guy's channel Clov!s - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCu37IhZOWNoPDFdyk98rc4g I think it would be a good source for you. Very informative, and clear and concise with what he has to say - no waffling on.
I'm definitely going to make my way through the lot - even though some is a bit basic it's a great refresher.

Captain · 9 Oct 2018 at 19:34

sHo0sH said:
Take a look at this guy's channel Clov!s - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCu37IhZOWNoPDFdyk98rc4g I think it would be a good source for you. Very informative, and clear and concise with what he has to say - no waffling on.
I'm definitely going to make my way through the lot - even though some is a bit basic it's a great refresher.

That's awesome, thank you.

Very clear video and no ********.

Spleen Sauce · 10 Oct 2018 at 10:51

New firmware out for the A7iii and A7rIII - hopefully fixes the playback instability issues I've been having occasionally (where the camera will just freeze up for around 30 seconds when trying to simply view stored images).

Greebo · 10 Oct 2018 at 10:55

Oh hope they have added new features. Would love Sony to add live composite and focus stacking and pro capture. They won't but you live in hope

Spleen Sauce · 10 Oct 2018 at 13:00

Nah none of those. They haven't even fixed the near-invisible focus point colour issue that just about everyone has complained about.

sHo0sH · 10 Oct 2018 at 14:32

Is it still nigh on impossible to do with a Mac?

Greebo · 10 Oct 2018 at 15:41

Spleen Sauce said:
Nah none of those. They haven't even fixed the near-invisible focus point colour issue that just about everyone has complained about.

Sad panda. I at least thought they would have fixed that. Plus putting all those really useful features onto the menus rather than they only work if you assign a custom button to them.

Spleen Sauce · 10 Oct 2018 at 16:14

sHo0sH said:
Is it still nigh on impossible to do with a Mac?

Think so yes, I did have some success using VMWare Fusion with a Windows 10 VM previously though.

Greebo · 11 Oct 2018 at 07:14

Nice to see all focus modes now work with the sigma mc-11 and meta bones adaptor for those people using canon or Nikon glass.

sHo0sH · 11 Oct 2018 at 08:52

Damnit! I sold my lovely 24-105 because they didnt!

Raymond Lin · 11 Oct 2018 at 08:54

Greebo said:
Nice to see all focus modes now work with the sigma mc-11 and meta bones adaptor for those people using canon or Nikon glass.

It's strange that it is Sony who makes it all work, rather than updates from the adaptor makers. Does that mean Sony has either locked it out until now and saw the Canon/Nikon Adaptors works better so they thought they must do something to improve the ones on their mount even if it is made by a 3rd party?

Or it's just co-incidence.

footman · 11 Oct 2018 at 09:21

sHo0sH said:
Is it still nigh on impossible to do with a Mac?

I gave up trying to do it on the Mac despite following the Sony instructions for Mac installation. Did it on my loathsome Win10 laptop very easily.

GSXRMovistar · 11 Oct 2018 at 10:12

GSXRMovistar said:
No they don't have stock and don't know when they are getting them back in, ordered from instashot-store, not heard of them before but seems to be the same sort of setup and they have a good rating on TrustPilot (plus credit card used). If they can't deliver by mid next week I'll just order from the UK with next day delivery.

Instashot-store were full of crap, showing stock numbers and taking orders for stock they don't have. Now cancelled and fingers crossed WEX will be delivering tomorrow.

Raymond Lin · 11 Oct 2018 at 10:23

footman said:
I gave up trying to do it on the Mac despite following the Sony instructions for Mac installation. Did it on my loathsome Win10 laptop very easily.

Oh great....now I need to find a windows machine........

The_Abyss · 11 Oct 2018 at 11:14

Ffs, I don't have a Windows machine, or access to one!

Raymond Lin · 11 Oct 2018 at 11:19

The_Abyss said:
Ffs, I don't have a Windows machine, or access to one!

I have a netbook, remember those? from 2010 running Windows 10, which I installed as an experiment...but that takes about 10 mins to even boot up so not really ideal.

sHo0sH · 11 Oct 2018 at 11:21

I've also been having issues with the tamron lens firmware that I think may be down to the mac as well. Will have to borrow the sisters windows machine to sort by the looks of it.