Wash Over Me

The sails of the Sydney Opera House in stark contrast to the sky behind.
The sails of the Sydney Opera House in stark contrast to the sky behind.

A month or so ago I had the opportunity to try out the Sony Alpha ecosystem thanks to Sony Australia. This was the first time I had handled a mirrorless camera, and I was very impressed! The image quality is incredible, and the image size is just mind-blowing.

They took us down to Mrs Macquaries Point for a photo session, and I quickly grabbed their 100-400mm G Master lens. I'm a sucker for long lenses and this is one I've wanted to try for ages!

As had been the case for pretty much every sunset the last few months, it was a cloudless evening, so I focused on the details of the Opera House and thought it would work really nicely as a simple black and white image against the bright sky background.

I love the detail you can capture with this sensor size - but it came with a cost… my computer almost couldn't handle the file size (mind you, I chose uncompressed so the images were about 80MB each).

I'm not switching over, but it was still a very tantalising taste into the world of mirrorless.

The details for this image are as follows:

  • Sony A7R3 with Sony 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 GM OSS
  • f/5.6
  • 1/1250s
  • ISO400

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