New to Sony System

By -

I was completely oblivious to the advancement in digital photography as I concentrate mainly the results than the tools. I shoot medium and large format films and till recently shot with Olympus 4/3 systems in the digital world. I heard about the world of mirror less cameras and how they make using legacy lenses on digital cameras an easy process. I decided to check out the Sony A7 series and bought a used Sony A7RII.

I'm super impressed by this system. It was very intuitive to learn and there are plenty of custom button that I can customize, so I didn't have to go digging around the menus. It has very good video feature and I think it'll be a new skill for me to learn! I don't have any "digital" lenses yet and decided to adapt Konica Hexanon 57mm f/1.2(pictured below) and a Pentacon six 135mm f/2.8 (M42 screw mount). Both the lenses had ready made adapters available to the Sony system and were very affordable.


Untitled


There focus peaking and focus magnification in the camera body that makes it very easy to use these old manual focus lenses. Focusing is pretty accurate! I'm loving the initial results so far..

Untitled

As I shoot more, I'll post more pictures and document my learning in this system! 

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Travel Journal : Czech Republic

By -
Image
Check me out on social media  Instagram  and  Facebook  !  These pictures are from my trip to Czech Republic. I've been meaning to post these for a while but never got around to it. My wife and I drove from Vienna to Prague, stopped at small Czech town of Mikulov . It is such a quaint town with so much charm! Prague is very beautiful as well. We stayed in the old town area and walked around the town quite a bit! Please enjoy the postcards! 
Read more

Bokeh Machines

By -
Image
I have to admit, I'm an addict for lenses that produce quality bokeh. Those who are not familiar with the term bokeh, check out this Wiki article. Typically the lenses that produce very nice bokeh have large apertures - f/2 or lower in aperture number. When shot wide open (although not required) the circles of confusion these lenses produce in out of focus areas are a joy to look at. It creates that "dreamy" look at least that's how people with non photographic backgrounds have described it to me. There are some favorite lenses that I have in each format that I shoot with and I call them Bokeh Machines. Small Format - Typically 135mm film size or smaller. It's also known as "full frame" or "cropped frame" in digital world depending on the size of the sensor. Hexanon 57mm f/1.2 -  This lens is amazing and truly affordable compared to some of the other lenses that I own. It can be adopted to 4/3rds or micro 4/3rds format but it's t
Read more