Fine A55 Experience

[Rashkae]

1. Not necessarily, but in general, sony images are well-saturated - the usual complaint is "over-saturated". Is your monitor poorly calibrated? If you push saturation to +2 or +3, you may see some noise in certain scenes. All depends on lighting.

2. The right mode for the right purpose. All sony AF systems are very intelligent, though I usually save the camera the effort and set it to whichever mode i need at the time. For a "focus and recompose" requirement, usually only AF-S as i don't want the camera to try to be "smarter" than me.

 

[albertri]

Bro, I use the 18-250 at 18mm F4.

Oh no wonder. Try stepping down a bit.

yep 18250 at wide end the sweet spot I think f5 or 6 and up. if you choose 3.5-4 still tad soft.

 

[albertri]

1. Not necessarily, but in general, sony images are well-saturated - the usual complaint is "over-saturated". Is your monitor poorly calibrated? If you push saturation to +2 or +3, you may see some noise in certain scenes. All depends on lighting.

2. The right mode for the right purpose. All sony AF systems are very intelligent, though I usually save the camera the effort and set it to whichever mode i need at the time. For a "focus and recompose" requirement, usually only AF-S as i don't want the camera to try to be "smarter" than me.

yep for me at standard setting I just push Sat to +1 and sharpness to +1 but I think this doesnt matter much if you shoot in raw you could change all the setting later with doing PP using Sony softwares.

 

[aaron80]

Bro u do your PP with the provided Sony softwares? Are they useful? Coz I dun have Photoshop also..

yep for me at standard setting I just push Sat to +1 and sharpness to +1 but I think this doesnt matter much if you shoot in raw you could change all the setting later with doing PP using Sony softwares.

 

[tokrot]

Bro u do your PP with the provided Sony softwares? Are they useful? Coz I dun have Photoshop also..

You can use Picasa.. Free software from Google. Very easy to use.

 

[cthep2]

You can use Picasa.. Free software from Google. Very easy to use.

PhotoScape too

 

[albertri]

Bro u do your PP with the provided Sony softwares? Are they useful? Coz I dun have Photoshop also..

I mean bro before I convert my RAW files to TIFF (for Photoshop) I play around with exposure/WB etc using the Sony RAW files application very usefull

PS I do shot jpeg+raw I find having this I am more flexibale example I've made a wrong WB I could change that in the RAW file before converting it to tiff for Photoshop processing... but to be honest I hadrly retouch using Photoshop maybe if I want to add effects such as filters abd create muliple exposure on a single TIFF file for HDR thats the most I've do on my photos I hardly do heavy retouching

 

[Ghostfit]

try standard profile with contrast0, sat+1, sharp+2 for nice colours with good skintone.

Dro set to auto for indoor and outdoor set to +2. If using iso800 or more, setting dro higher than +2 will incur more colour noise.

:thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

And another question, what AF mode do you guys set to normally? When I was using traditional DSLRs last time, I alway set to AF-S. But I heard the A55 AF-C is very good. Should I continue using AF-S and switch to AF-C when I need the continuous focusing or I just set to AF-A so the camera can automatically switch when the need arises. I dunno how intelligent is the A55 AF system?

The A55 is good enough to shoot with AF-A, 80% of the time ...the other 20% is when I switch over to AF-C to shoot various flying objects at 10Fps :bsmilie:

 

[Ouverture]

Yup, AF mode is optional for different purpose.

Here's a video of Canikon arguments that turn into a fight, over some AF thingy...
http://www.photographybay.com/2010/10/19/canon-vs-nikon-debate-turns-violent-at-wedding/

 

[albertri]

Yup, AF mode is optional for different purpose.

Here's a video of Canikon arguments that turn into a fight, over some AF thingy...
http://www.photographybay.com/2010/10/19/canon-vs-nikon-debate-turns-violent-at-wedding/

wow hope I wont see such things in here hehe. I wont risk my ugly face into fist fighting and make it even uglier just over a camera, come to think they not even paying you anything :bsmilie:

watched the video oh man there goes thier cam and lenses...

 

[bogster]

ooo...the video is not that fine btw, you guys had shared nice tips and preference of settings. Im still gettign use to this cam with all the functions and all. Wat does DRO and HDR good for? Thank you in advance.

 

[avo]

My A55 + DT50F1.8 hunts a little and the focus is not tack sharp in low light. Anybody else experienced this?

 

[aaron80]

I think it will hunt abit in very low-light but focus was quite tack sharp when I took some pics in my room which isnt that bright. Will post some pics here when I reach hm tonite.

My A55 + DT50F1.8 hunts a little and the focus is not tack sharp in low light. Anybody else experienced this?

 

[Aimevous]

My A55 + DT50F1.8 hunts a little and the focus is not tack sharp in low light. Anybody else experienced this?

AF sensors for cameras will fail when there is not enough light. Thats why some cameras have AF assist lamps. What you can do is to flip up your flash as an AF assist lamp.

 

[tokrot]

Yup, AF mode is optional for different purpose.

Here's a video of Canikon arguments that turn into a fight, over some AF thingy...
http://www.photographybay.com/2010/10/19/canon-vs-nikon-debate-turns-violent-at-wedding/

LOL, the most innocent one is the busybody video cam man. LOL :bsmilie: I saw the video cam was being thrown by these 3 ppl.. :bsmilie::bsmilie:

 

[Royaux]

My A55 + DT50F1.8 hunts a little and the focus is not tack sharp in low light. Anybody else experienced this?

Send for calibration if problem persists for the sharpness issue, experiencing same problem. Will be sending in mine on Monday.