r/SonyAlpha

I’ve accumulated a lot of gear and a few good pictures over the last few years. This hobby really got me out the door!

Some of the most dramatic lighting I’ve ever experienced while out shooting!

All of these were shot on the a5000 with a dirty and scratched up kit lens. This camera has seen a lot.

📍Canada B.C.

All of them taken with the tamron 28-75mm F2.8

Enjoy

Marsh Creek State Park - Oct 2026
Under October Skies

All of the little boats, kayaks, and canoes, sit ready for a beautiful Fall Saturday. Shot with a Sony A99II and CZ 16-35 f/2.8 lens using a Lee100 GND filter. Camera was mounted on a RRS tripod & head with a 3 Legged Thing universal mounting plate.

First week with this combo and I gotta say, I’m impressed.

Impressed with how sharp this lens is.

While I have had to crop into most of these photos (1. Because you can’t really handhold this lens easily and 2. Because there is not enough range, even on a6400) I have been impressed with how much cropping I’ve been able to do.

Some of these photos are cropped 100-2000% which on an apsc sensor is impressive.

I’m not saying these are Sony a7RVI quality photos but they are still good for the price.

And another thing that similar Sony lenses don’t have is macro mode (Yes I’m talking about the 200-600).

I’ve been able to get really flipping close to insects, birds and basically anything tiny. It’s genuinely crazy how at 150mm you can focus at 60cm.

Saw this in a facebook group, looks like it might be an F2 instead of an F2.8 that was rumored the other day. Doesn't look to be AI so fingers crossed this is legit.

Hi there Reddit! First things first, I'm not a pro, or an expert or anything. I just enjoy taking pics to no end. Sometimes I do some video but photography is my fav. I do macro, animals, street and still life, and some landscapes.

This isn't my first Sony camera, it's actually my second. I started with a Nikon DSLR then 2 Nikon mirrorless cameras and then Sony. I bought this one for the retro looks (silver top model, as can be seen in the last shots). Paired with the right lens, a dark brown leather case and wrist strap, and maybe a square lens hood, it looks amazing to me at least.

But its main strength is the sensor. 61 MP FF sensor with a ton of photographic DR, and excellent noise performance. Paired with a sharp enough lens, it's basically stills on cheat mode lol. It's not particularly fast so if you shoot sports it's probably not the best but image quality and the flexibility to crop and recompose in post are epic and kinda shocked me at first since the is my first 40+ mp cam. And I prefer not to take long bursts with this anyway cause with a V90 memory card I get 25 to 28 61 MP lossless compressed L RAWs before it slows down. One such burst alone can be up to 2 gigs. These pics eat up storage fast and with fast storage costing about an arm and a leg currently it's better to be methodical. I heard some people didn't like the ergonomics but I have big hands and I have no issues especially with the leather case that makes it a bit bigger.

Overall, if you need to shoot a lot of video then there are much better options probably. But if you're a stills shooter first and foremost like myself, I can't recommend this thing enough. It made me want to go out and take pics and that's the best compliment you can give a camera.

PS: the lenses used for these pics are sigma 105mm f2.8 art macro - Viltrox 35mm f1.8 Evo ii - Tamron 24mm f2.8 - Nikon 50mm F2 pre AI (1970s film lens).

Tried a bit of a different edit on these pictures from the weekend.
Feedback on thoughts and advice welcomed!

Shot on A1 II and 300mm 2.8

Some of the photos I took with my Sony Alpha A7 IV + 24-70 GM I during the protests in Madrid against the house price raising.

📸 Borja Muñoz Gallego

The weather looked promising for a spot of astrophotography so my buddy and I headed out to Talybont Reservoir to get set up.

I had my smart telescope trained on M33, The Triangulum Galaxy but whilst that was busy I broke out the Sony a6700 with the 11mm f1.8 on a star tracker and had some fun experimenting.

I was experimenting with stacking with mixed results (new to this) so parked that for now and I put this shot together from two images - one 30s untracked capture to get the foreground and a tracked 45s shot with the star tracker enabled to cut out star trailing.

I like a cooler, slightly blue colour temp (personal taste) and a more natural look to the Milky Way, not too overdone.

I've wanted to capture this composition at this location for a little while. It's not perfect, but I'm super happy with the result!

Had Sally 3 months and she is like a different dog from the one we brought home, scared, hated other dogs (still has scared moments) awful on the leader, amazing at retrieving and seeking. Since we lost our 2, 16 year old dogs over a year ago something was missing but we weren't ready for another dog. Then along came sally (not polly) and we saw her on the rescue centre page, love at first sight but a lot of hard work for us and her, shes amazing and im rambling now so thanks for looking and I hope ive done her justice.

taken with 18-135 kit lens