{"id":957,"date":"2007-10-01T02:18:05","date_gmt":"2007-10-01T02:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=957"},"modified":"2014-01-15T05:53:43","modified_gmt":"2014-01-15T05:53:43","slug":"the-day-before","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=957","title":{"rendered":"The Day Before"},"content":{"rendered":"

And so, I tried the Sony Alpha 700<\/b> with the Carl Zeiss 135mm F1.8<\/b> with AF-C and Drive High (5 fps); that thing felt like a… photon-blasting… submachine gun as I focus tracked a customer walking about Sony KLCC.<\/p>\n

Gotta love the approach Sony is taking (or had to take) with the A700; put all the upgrades in the body (anti-shake, direct manual focus, fast AF), since they don’t have that many lenses out with built-in motors or full-time manual focus.<\/p>\n

This link shows the A700 with Minolta 600mm F4G with 1.4x teleconverter, shooting birds in flight:
\nhttp:\/\/www.dyxum.com\/dforum\/forum_posts.asp?TID=21005&PN=1<\/a><\/p>\n

I also went down to Sungei Wang Plaza, where I tried my Tamron 200-400mm F5.6<\/a> on it. Focus was indeed a lot faster, with a lot less hunting, and I tried focus tracking while panning the crowd walking outside the shop.<\/p>\n


\nTamron 200-400mm F5.6 at 200mm F5.6 ISO1600, with shutter speeds from 1\/40 to 1\/60 seconds. Wide AF, continuous AF mode, Drive High (5 frames per second).<\/p>\n

What I really liked is how another person walked in front of him but the camera did not jump to focus on him instead.<\/p>\n

Frankly, I cannot wait to get the A700 and use ISO6400 paired with the Tamron 200-400mm F5.6 and 1.4x Tamron teleconverter and 2x Kenko teleconverter (for indoor stalking) and the Minolta 50mm F1.4 (for extreme low-light situations.)<\/p>\n

There’s also the improved Dynamic Range Optimizer, which in addition to the Sony A100’s DRO off, DRO on, and DRO+ modes, has 5 selectable levels of DRO. At DRO Level 5, everything is literally a High Dynamic Range image. It looks fake in the same way too, heh!<\/p>\n

The HDR-like capabilities of the Sony A700 will make my Peleng 8mm F3.5 circular fisheye<\/a> a lot more usable in scenes where there are a lot of bright lights, which made the Sony A100 prone to underexposing everything else.<\/p>\n

Even with DRO turned off, the camera seems to bring in a lot more detail in the moderately dark areas, quite like looking at a LCD monitor instead of a CRT monitor. You can even see it on the 640×480 3″ LCD, the same one used on the Nikon D300.<\/p>\n

The Sony A700 is not for everybody though; if you’re a daylight shooter you’ll appreciate the weak anti-aliasing filter of the Sony A100. That, paired with the superb, sharp, contrasty, extremely resolving Carl Zeiss lenses, make for pixel-peeping goodness.<\/p>\n

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And so, I literally, honestly, am going to eat cup noodles to save money. I’ve been doing so for 3 weeks already. People can say they’ll eat bread\/noodles, but who really does?<\/p>\n

So what if I lose hair? I have a bit too much of it at the moment, and I refuse to let a pair of scissors touch it, so this is a natural<\/i> way to lighten my mane.<\/p>\n

(It’s also better than the food they serve at the mamak at my new office<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

And so, I tried the Sony Alpha 700 with the Carl Zeiss 135mm F1.8 with AF-C and Drive High (5 fps); that thing felt like a… photon-blasting… submachine gun as I focus tracked a customer walking about Sony KLCC. Gotta love the approach Sony is taking (or had to take) with the A700; put all […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek","category-pictures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=957"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2597,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957\/revisions\/2597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}