Cars & Coffee - first time out with new A7RV

[khollister]

Long time photographer (late of Nikon and Fuji), first time Sony user 🙂 I went out yesterday with my new A7RV and 16-35 GM II/24-70 GM II to a local cars & coffee event locally for the first field use of the Sony. These were shot RAW but with fairly heavy processing in LrC, DXO PureRAW and Nik ColorFX. The lighting was pretty brutal and the backgrounds largely crap due to location and how close the cars were parked.

I was amazed at how the Sony files stood up to the processing compared my previous cameras. I'm also blown away by DXO PureRAW 4 in terms of both noise obliteration and sharpening/detail improvement with no apparent adverse effects. I was a Capture One user with my Fuji files but I prefer the current Lightroom conversion.

 

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[Cameratose]

Nice work! I'm a car guy too!

Looks like you shot all of these at ISO 100/200. Don't be afraid to push the envelope with your Sony, I shoot 12800, 16000, and 20000 more than I like due to the venue I spend most of my time in, they turn out great! I too use DXO, but just Deep Prime for NR. I don't even bother denoising for anything below ISO 3200 unless something weird happened and I need to lift a lot. Processing is with Darktable.

Keep in mind too your camera has a dual-gain amplifier. ISO 320 is slightly better noise-wise than ISO 160.