Framedlight

Very proud of my new camera acquisition I took it to Standen House, near East Grinstead, West Sussex, for an outing. This house belongs to the National Trust and was designed by the architect Philip Webb and built for the Beale family in 1891, a true 'arts and crafts' home. I had Hettie the dog with me so could not go into the house which has rooms designed by William Morris. A further visit is needed. I still had not got any lenses to fit the E mount of the Sony camera so was using Nikon 50mm and 28mm lenses and an adaptor. This meant I did not have autofocus but I could use aperture priority exposure. Here follows a number of mainly flower shots. I was very pleased with the dynamic range of the camera although the day was pretty grey, with a flat lifeless sky.

In August the weather was good and harvesting had begun. Here are some pictures of the fields round my house taken with the new Sony, still without a dedicated lens but using my Nikon lenses and an adaptor. I have photographed this scene a number of times before but the light is always different. I also took the camera to Thaxted where by way of a contrast I produced these monochrome pictures. The dynamic range of the Sony A7R11 is well able to cope with difficult lighting conditions.

It seems so long since I posted anything here but I have been busy.  Back in August I bought a new camera - the Sony A7R11, and this outing was it's first official trip. At this stage I had no specific lenses so I coupled it to some Nikon lenses with an adaptor. Manual focussing but the exposure worked OK. In fact manual focussing with the Sony is not too difficult as there are a couple of ways the camera helps you. Firstly you an really expand the view in the eyepiece and then there are indicators on the screen to tell you what is in focus, (I have since turned this off as it does not help composition). I found that shooting at a high ISO was no problem for the Sony.  The resulting images here are probably not worth the investment!