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Hey, I really need advice here because I'm clueless I have owned my Sony a7iii for over 3 years now. For about a year now, I've been noticing a loss of quality in the pictures. At my last wedding, however, the pictures were so horrible that I couldn't hand over many of them. People in the pictures are sometimes completely out of focus and even though I used face detection and eyes auto focus. F/2.5 was used. They are shot with a sigma 35mm 1.4 dg hsm. There are pictures of the same shoot that I took a few seconds later with the same settings, but they turned out relatively sharp. For this post, I've converted the image to jpeg. Pay particular attention to the man in the picture. They were not moving fast or anything just standing there and smiling but he is totally blurry. And even she is not very sharp. I also notice that a lot of my pictures are super noisy. Even with low iso and in relatively good lighting conditions, for example in the middle of the day. Sometimes I wonder if I'm doing something wrong because something like this has never happened to me in 5 years of photography. In addition, I also notice in the recently photographed pictures that my presets, which I have put together over the years, do not look good on the pictures. Although I would certainly have more than 10 presets that used to fit perfectly for the lighting situation and circumstances. I have often checked whether my pictures were really taken in RAW or whether I accidentally took pictures in jpeg. But no, I always had shoot in RAW. Maybe someone has had the same problems and can help me further. I am grateful for any advice. My equipment used: Sony a7iii (Version 4.01) Sigma 35mm 1.4 Art dg hsm (Version 2) RAW uncompressed Settings: ISO 50 Shutter: 320 F/2.5
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I just recently bought a Sony Zeiss 35mm f1.4. Yes it big and heavy but I got work to pay for me buying a used one. Every time I power on the camera (A7ii), it sounds like a motor expanding and then relaxing the aperture. Is this normal? Other than that, it works just fine and pics a crisp as expected. The sound/motor does not persist during operation. ALSO: Because I bought that lens on a whim I am wanting to know its capabilities in general. I just came over to Sony mirrorless and got the A7ii used which came with the Zeiss 35mm 2.8. Love the combo because its so small. Here are the types of photos I want to take seriously: landscape, environmental portraits (mainly rock climbing and mountaineering - so a need to have good clarity on the subject and also show their surroundings, and traditional portraits. The reason I bought the 35mm f1.4 is that it is supposed to be "the best e-mount lens available". Wouldn't want to take the risk if it were my own money so took advantage of the offer. Now I am in a strange predicament. Because I'm always climbing, do I just stick with the 35 2.8 and get a portrait lens, or keep both? Is the image quality that much different? I guess my other option would be to trade the 35mm f1.4 for a great portrait lens. If I go that route, what should I choose?
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