lwliam: Happens on both LCD and EVF, unfortunately. It is perceptually 500 milliseconds from what you see, to what you capture, and around 1/6th of a second from other tests.

More reading here:
http://www.dyxum.com/dforum/a55-shutter-de...0779_page3.html

I can't find the post from sybersitizen which describes how he came to the 1/6th of a second delay though I remember reading it.

Bear2bear: Brilliant street shots! I love #2!

epo: First, make sure that you are not re-composing after focusing:

http://www.mhohner.de/essays/recompose.php

Secondly, make sure you are steady - some people after half-pressing move the camera forward/backward a bit, causing misfocus.

Sony does not recalibrate for backfocusing, even if they say that they do - some of us have sent it in and found it not fixed at all. What camera body and lens combination are you using that is causing this?

This post has been edited by albnok: Sep 26 2011, 03:32 PM

67zai: Are you shooting RAW and then loading it in a RAW processing program? You are meant to tweak it again after that.

If it's JPG and it doesn't match, your PC screen is probably not calibrated. If it is an LCD, it is probably too bright by default (that's why printed photos are darker for most people, but it matches the screen.)

There is an option in Windows 7 somewhere in the Display Properties to quickly fix this.

This post has been edited by albnok: Sep 26 2011, 04:50 PM

Also, Lightroom's color profiles are weak in the reds, making your pictures look like they came out of a Canon. Sony's IDC processor, and DxO Optics Pro, by default, make the reds more vibrant.

Technically the reds are too vibrant on Sonys and Lightroom is being "true" but I find the reds are what I like about the Sony color.

Well I prefer to be able to autofocus in video and manual focus in video.

Autofocus for above-the-head or frogs-eye-view candid videos (as well as when you need to pass your camera to someone), and manual focus for planned videos.

Better than having only manual focus lah.

lwliam: Don't forget the E-mount users! As they are using Sony Alpha NEX cameras they are part of the Alpha family too.

Honestly, I don't think we should say "oh don't troll us here because we don't troll you there". That sounds like something from a Malaysian news site, quoted from a politician LOL. Whatever it is, it should be fair game and equal opportunity. Either everyone trolls everywhere, or nobody trolls anywhere.



I didn't laugh at this camera. I found the "1 Nikkor" wording to be funny, though! Also a bit odd that the pancake doesn't manual focus. The collapsible 30-110mm is killer, as you can sneak it in to a concert and pretend it's a kit lens.

lwliam: Well there's Rocktoberfest on the same day. Argh!

ieR: Yes, there is that writing delay. For some reason it is longer when in normal Aperture Priority with 7 FPS mode, than it is in 10 FPS mode. Same for the A77 pre-production v1.00. The writing times of course become shorter with faster memory cards.

EvanKeat: Congratulations on your 14mm, and for being able to release your pictures!

ieR: Got, but the locking out happens first before the screen eventually comes on - that's when you can shoot while it writes the rest in the background.

So if you're not sure you'd better keep the shutter pressed until you know the action is over.

porkchop: It looks like rudimentary Hue/Saturation/Lightness tweaking. Try it!

ahpingko: Congratulations! Nice Dogathon #2!

jimlim007: Whoa, poisonous! Crap I just bought the Sandisk 45MB/s UHS-1. I guess it will take a while to reach Malaysia, if it ever does.

fansoption: Nice rain shot, though it does look like it was shot by the street at night.

ahpingko: Not sure if you've done this, but if you're on Windows 7, run the built-in calibrator tool in Display Properties. Also are you shooting RAW? RAW won't have the same vibrance since it will start 'flat' and you add the vibrance manually. Lightroom is less reddish by default compared to DxO Optics Pro.

lwliam: Unless you get an Eizo you'll find out-of-box monitors to all be uncalibrated. Even the Macs.

ahpingko: We can TT and you can try my Samyang 85mm F1.4.

ahpingko: Nope though I'm sure somebody here has one.

Zicron: Not sure yet.

zstan:

http://www.sony.com.my/product/dslr-a900

Still in sale in Malaysia.

dtdw: Did you mean the flash bracket? The thing that holds the microphone up so it is at the same level as the external LCD? Is it this?

Sony VCT-55LH bracket from http://mhohner.de/sony-minolta/flashcomp_acc.php.

The external microphone uses a standard ISO cold shoe (cold shoe = no pins, hotshoe = has pins to trigger flash).

However, it comes with an adapter to mount on the Alpha cameras. The Alpha's flash hotshoe is known officially in manuals as the "Auto-lock Accessory shoe" (though over at Dyxum we'd call it the iISO hotshoe.)

The NEX-C3/3/5 flash hotshoe is called the Smart Accessory Terminal while the NEX-5N uses the Smart Accessory Terminal 2 (with a hole to fit the extra peg on the FDA-EV1S electronic viewfinder.)

On the contrary, while I can't say with statistical accuracy, I'd say the feeling is the same when Nikon released the V1/J1 with 1Nikkor lenses.

jimlim007: Please translate!

That is common with flourescent light.

Flourescent light flickers at the same frequency as your alternating current electricity.

When you shoot at a faster shutter speed in a room with flourescent light, you'll see white and brown areas. The white areas are flourescent light. The brown areas are ambient light (as if the light was off.)

You will only notice this if say, you have a F1.8 lens and ISO1600, and you shoot burst mode - you'll see the flourescent light 'travelling' across the room.

Also, can you please explain this to that n00b? Since his comments are disabled and you can explain to him in Chinese...

dtdw: There is no stereo mike jack on the NEX-5 so you'll need to get the ECM-SST1 mike since that's the only one that will fit on the Smart Accessory Terminal.

mastering89: Why can't the AF confirm chip confirm for non-center AF points? I believe it did, at least I remember it doing so. (My AF confirm chip fell out of the Opteka 85mm F1.4 and I can't find it.)

kysham: The Fn QuickNavi is actually the same as it was when re-introduced on the A550, except the A550 had only one dial.

porkchop: Nice #3!