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AlexKarasev ![]() Senior Member ![]() Joined: 27 March 2007 Location: United States Status: Offline Posts: 874 |
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Actually I think it goes well with Minolta's (and now SONY's) philosophy of adding value to all lenses with camera body function. Think of in-body SSS vs. one that has to be built dedicated in each lens that is to have this function. It is pretty clear the advantage is to have a common function in a common place, strengthening the system overall. That's what drives the market share and profits and economies of scale for further R&D investment - not any individual instrument. If SONY had added STF in-body plus sensor tilt (at least along the long axis) in-body (thus making every lens a tilt lens e.g. for DOF control in macro and product photography), they could further strengthen the system's appeal and reinforce the value they are already delivering with SSS being applicable to all lenses due to being implemented in the body. -- Alex Karasev |
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albnok ![]() Senior Member ![]() Joined: 01 October 2007 Location: Malaysia Status: Offline Posts: 1018 |
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Did somebody say Zeiss 135mm F1.8 through the Dynax 7's STF?
![]() Dare I say that from memory (since I did not shoot a reference F1.8 shot) that the DOF seems deeper due to the apodization on the OOF areas. This might also explain why the STF lens itself doesn't seem to have an easily shallow DOF at times. (While the Minolta 135mm F2.8 would scream bokeh in your face.) Probably will revisit this subject with my A900 and 135mm F1.8 as I'm sure it would yield a shallower DOF. |
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tuanle ![]() Senior Member ![]() Joined: 18 January 2009 Country: United Kingdom Location: NY, US Status: Offline Posts: 419 |
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I did use this idea on my A350 with the CZ 16-80
f 4.5-10 ![]() My conclusion: I should not use f > 7 :D Edited by tuanle - 04 November 2009 at 08:58 |
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Alanbrowne ![]() Senior Member ![]() Joined: 17 May 2009 Country: United Kingdom Location: Canada Status: Offline Posts: 1056 |
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Hardly. The STF is really in its element doing portraiture and there is no way to use the simulated STF mode for that unless the subject is embalmed waiting for the wake to end... |
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Alanbrowne ![]() Senior Member ![]() Joined: 17 May 2009 Country: United Kingdom Location: Canada Status: Offline Posts: 1056 |
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I notice a couple places where the highlights exhibit a harsh ring in them (upper left in phots as well as upper right). Not "STF" class, alas. |
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matthiaspaul ![]() Senior Member ![]() Joined: 08 September 2006 Country: Germany Status: Offline Posts: 940 |
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This is exactly how it should work, slowly close the aperture in a defined way during the exposure. It may not work for the shorter shutter speeds (the shortest emulated shutter speed the Dynax 7 STF mode can work with is 1/500s), but for the longer speeds (say 1/20s and longer) it should be possible to implement it this way. Actually, this is on our list of improvements for (Konica Minolta and) Sony for quite a while, but so far they didn't even bother to reintroduce the Dynax 7 STF mode at all. :-( http://www.mi-fo.de/forum/index.php?showtopic=9250&view=findpost&p=130071 [de]
It may depend on the camera. In the Dynax 9, closing and reopening the aperture (DOF preview) requires to flip the mirror as well (but not to open the shutter). In cameras implementing "silent" DOF preview (since Dynax 7), the aperture is driven independent of the mirror and shutter mechanism, thereby also providing means to change the aperture in DOF preview. Moving the mirror without opening the shutter is possible with other cameras as well, for example the MLU mode of the DSLR-A900 and DSLR-A850 works this way, when it resets back to normal after some idle time (unfortunately). You may be right about recocking the shutter without moving down the mirror being mechanically impossible, though. However, if so, it shouldn't be to hard to implement it in slightly different way so that both actions can be decoupled. Regarding multi-exposures on DSLRs further up in this thread, of course, I meant Sony Alpha DSLRs, which don't provide this feature. Providing a buffer large enough for x frames for a generic multi-exposure might be a problem, but this would not be a problem for an STF mode unless combined with very long shutter speeds, because Sony won't need 7 buffers to combine the shots in camera. Instead, in perfect analogy to a film multi-exposure they could just fire the shutter 7 times in short succession (and as per STF program) without reading out the image, so the sensor will work as a charge buffer (that's what an imaging sensor is designed for, after all ;-). Since STF mode normally finishes within less than 2 seconds - at least in the range of short shutter speeds where the above approach to slowly close the aperture during a single exposure might not work - the dark current may not become much of an issue in STF mode, but if it does, the camera could utilize the dark frame subtraction method just as it does for normal long exposures.
But the combination of many such features makes up what can convince users to buy into the Sony system, whereas now, many such features are driving users into the Nikon system... Sony will just have to get their act together and significantly fine-tune their products to make them more attractive to users. In the past year, however, they have worked in the opposite direction, removing one useful feature after the other. This is how I see Sony's offerings such as the DSLR-A900 right now: Raw cameras, capable, but still very basic in the feature department. A good hardware base to improve on, but still missing alot of detail-refinement and customization. Greetings, Matthias Edited by matthiaspaul - 06 November 2009 at 00:26 |
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kiklop ![]() Admin Group ![]() Dyxum owner Joined: 14 July 2005 Country: Croatia Location: Rovinj Status: Offline Posts: 10564 |
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And i second all of the above. Sony DSLR's Achilles heel isn't high image quality as many do imply but rather lack of features and options that modern DSLR cameras should provide. |
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kefkafloyd ![]() Senior Member ![]() Joined: 04 July 2006 Country: United States Location: Massachusetts Status: Offline Posts: 2455 |
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The a500/550's auto HDR is a multiexposure mode. I do not see it as unlikely that more multiexposure modes may come in the future. Of course, people forget that it wasn't Sony that took the STF feature away from us - it was Minolta, because it was missing in our old KM 5D/7D too. Edited by kefkafloyd - 05 November 2009 at 14:28 |
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TallPaul ![]() Senior Member ![]() Joined: 17 March 2006 Country: United Kingdom Status: Offline Posts: 2824 |
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now kefkafloyd, we all know that Minolta are saints and Sony are evil, stop confusing the matter
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6tyNine ![]() Senior Member ![]() Joined: 04 April 2007 Location: Canada Status: Offline Posts: 1580 |
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this is brilliant. i'm gonna try this tonight.
edit: just remember reading about this a looong time ago. 2 years actually... seems like PP has come a long way since then. STF mode on Dynax 7 another related thread... http://www.dyxum.com/dforum/maxxum-7-stf-mode-experiments_topic26328_page1.html?KW=stf+mode Edited by 6tyNine - 05 November 2009 at 23:08 |
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AlexKarasev ![]() Senior Member ![]() Joined: 27 March 2007 Location: United States Status: Offline Posts: 874 |
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:-) With the benefit of only having waited a few days I can smugly reply that apparently SONY is not above releasing a firmware update, even for a single and somewhat obscure (to average user of the cameras in question) feature, that nobody has even particularly complained about.
I think you are absolutely right on this one. It is clear SONY is willing to update firmware, but if it is for something WE want the burden is on us to unite and collectively tell SONY in an organized way that this is in fact what we want and we are prepared to be the ambassadors / marketers of the feature's benefit to make it worth their while. And if this past firmware update is any indication, SONY's threshold to justify a FW isn't even very high - they probably just want to hear it from a few warm bodies around the world with non-zero online reputations and experience/portfolios. -- Alex |
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beline ![]() Senior Member ![]() Joined: 11 October 2007 Location: United States Status: Offline Posts: 614 |
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Alex. What are you talking about?
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kefkafloyd ![]() Senior Member ![]() Joined: 04 July 2006 Country: United States Location: Massachusetts Status: Offline Posts: 2455 |
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The KM 7D/5D also missed out on a lot of neat stuff that the Film 7 had, like the metering readout display, or the focus distance with DOF calculations on D lenses, etc. These are things that IMO are less useful in the digital age because instant feedback destroys a lot of their need. They're toys, doodads. |
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sybersitizen ![]() Senior Member ![]() Joined: 04 August 2006 Country: United States Location: California Status: Offline Posts: 14457 |
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He's talking about the recent firmware update being discussed in this other thread. I agree that it was an unnecessary update and I can't help wondering if Sony also implemented some other change(s) that they aren't mentioning. |
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