1 April 2023
Melbourne 12
It is April fools day, so I replaced my 2 x broken (dust, water, failed repair) Ricoh GR III's with a cheapy Sony ZV-1. This camera is much like my old old Sony RX100 Mark 1, which I took more photos with than all other cameras combined. I have come full circle, back to a 1 inch sensor. The Ricoh GR III is my favourite camera of all time, but too fragile, I will buy version IV if they fix the dust issue for $anything. OK now onto the first shots from the cheap Sony.
First shot that was not a test shot of my keyboard in front of me.
Trams, zoomed in a bit, nearly all my cameras have been primes, so thinking of zooming at all will take a while.
Zoomed all the way in, the lens is apparently 24-70 equivalent, so it does not zoom in far, but it stays bright at 70mm, f1.8 to f2.8 across the range. I notice a bit of noise in the shadows already.
Less noticeable noise in the brown bits here, I suspect iso800 is as far as I would ever want to go, but that depends on how well the stabilization works. Alternatively, shoot jpeg and go for multi frame noise reduction, which is a fantastic feature of sony cameras.
I am taking a few shots in familiar locations to compare, comparisons to the sharpness of the Ricoh will not go well.
The colors and exposure metering are both good. This spot has tinted glass on both sides and in reality it does kind of look weird like this.
Kind of gets a bit of a 3d look, the real scene was perhaps a bit darker than this. Tricky due to the big window behind, but highlights through the window are ok.
Lots of mirrors and glass. I would prefer this to look, matte, which I know I can easily do in lightroom.
Zoom works well here.
The mario brothers banner makes comparing this to previous shots from the same spot difficult.
Very contrasty. Surprising amount of motion blur on the pedestrians and escalators for 1/30.
I have taken a roof dome shot many times. There is no apparent vignetting and the corners look good to me. The Ricoh had vignetting even with lens correction applied... which I kind of liked! I can do it in lightroom of course.
The profile is 'built in' to the Sony raw files in lighroom. I think this does more than the lighroom profiling of cameras and lenses without built in profile data, I will read more about that.
Useful zoom.
Probably a but too blue, but the blue building is tricking it.
Scene compression, will be useful for Taiwan street scenes at the night markets etc.
A bit of zoom and a bit of crop on this one.
I think the photos are less distorted than my Ricoh, I will read about that too, it is confusing to undertand if it actually bakes in changes to Raw files or not, if the profile is applied in camera I am not sure how to see it un-fixed. That's all for now.
More of the same
Just some more walking around the river since the sun came out the day after buying the camera.
Meh photo, full zoom.
Taken to look at leaf detail.
I often take a photo in this spot, this time with a bit of zoom.
Slightly different angle, trains were not using the correct line for me to get a train in view.
Shit photo, but taken to check for vignetting, even once corrected my Ricoh GR3 had a lot of vignetting, I am not seeing any here.
Full zoom again, not a lot of contrast in the cloudy areas, I could fix this with a mask, I often mask the sky, or shoot under exposed, here I am leaving exposure compensation on 0.
This looks good, even the detail in the trees behind across the river.
Wide end on the zoom, the aperture at 6.3 like the photo above, looks sharp.
Fully zoomed in, still looking good at f/6.3.
Shadows boosted.
Full zoom, but looks a bit soft here at f/8.
Brown water.
Passing boat, slight crop, just noticed the bird.
I like the colors, the concrete in the foreground is making the rest of it look contrasty.
WEll, the focus worked great here at full zoom.
I am happy with this shot.
Good detail in foliage, good sky.
Good colors again, it is full sun here, so in reality it was probably a bit brighter than this in the highlights.
Very fast accurate focus, comparitively at least.
Sky looks good contrasted to the whites of the tents.
This one is a bit disappointing. In reality it looked more saturated. I did not hang around, the people at the end were smoking meth!
Slightly better representation of the graffiti colours.
Very popular spot for photos. I like the Movida red sign in this one. This is where having zoom works well. Thats all for now, maybe some night shots to come.