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Of course Sony will emphasize this proprietary connection in their ads. After all the ads are there to sell more gear. The big question is if it makes any significant difference in real life. FWIW ...

Sony flashes works great on Sony cameras though they are also more expensive than third party flashes. However, I'm not sure what you mean when you say that third party flashes don't communicate ...

On ebay a seach for "flash diffuser" gives numerous pages with hits from Chinese sites with all kinds of diffusers available for a very sensible cost. That said, I myself haven't used Stofen type ...

Such pinkish spots covering more than one pixel (as it does in this case) is usually a sign that a laser beam has hit the sensor. These days there are lasers in many places (music venues not the ...

I use an A9 and normally I never use P mode. Having grown up with fully manal analog cameras, I have never bothered to figure out the not always intuitive ways P or Auto settings interacts with my ...

Actually, I think it's a skill that can be practised, also by you if you want it. It's a matter of watching the scene and the persons for a little while to see the repeating patterns and facial ...

Previsualising - seeing the finished picture in my mind before pressing the button, so to speak.

Posts like this always makes me wonder whether there is a difference between the mindsets of photogs brought up with digital cameras and those of us who are old enough to have shot on film. Are ...

I don't agree with this. When using a rocket blower you don't just blow air into the camera. An equal amount of air leaves the camera through the lens mount opening. If it wasn't so, you would ...

As for fill flash in daylight scenes, I have often disliked the results I have seen, mainly because of white balance mismatch beteen the daylight and the flash. Yes, flashes can be gelled, but ...

Exactly. That was basically what I tried to say, but you put it shorter. With the A9 one must use the mechanical shutter with flash and Igor was worried that the max 5FPS with mechanical shutter ...

But speedligths can't be used with the electronic shutter (which Igor wrote he would use a lot). It only works with the mechanical shutter. Apart from that, I agree with you. I love my A9 for ...

I swap lenses much more often than you and always get away with it. As for your choice of lenses - 24 and 40mm: You could just keep the 24mm on the camera and set a custom button up for toggling ...

Remove one lens from the camera. Put another one on the camera and you are done. Seriously: I swap lenses ever so often. I carry my camera on a short neck strap and try to hold the lens opening on ...

See my reply from december 2019 above. Same suggestion for you. Pink blotches is sometimes tell tale about laser damage to the sensor but the straightness of the line in your photo and the ...

I sounds like a studio job where the models don't move fast and erratically. Could good old manual focus be the least complicated in such a specialized case?

Now that you mention MS Optics, I remember to have read about them. However, they seem to be out of production by now and according to the Philip Reeves website, the optical quality is not on par ...

Oops. Double post.

Continued: All that said, the Leica lenses were still among the very best non asph lenses. The various Summicron 50mm were regarded as the standard others were judged against. The same can be said...

@ Mike42mm: They did. That was at a time when Japanese manufacturers began to make lenses with floating and aspherical elements, improving the wide open performance significantly. Leica was...