After a few years of waiting,
my wish for a "suitable" professional digital camera tool has arrived
in the form of the Sony 7R2M.
I bought it and went on test drives to see if it really meets my requirements.
My first test is to see if high quality images can be achieve
shooting very fine and colourful art pieces in very low ambient lighting situation
without using a tripod or mono-pod.
My choice of engagement is the Paranakan Museum currently displaying Nyonya needlework.
Reasons being the Paranakans are more than perfectionise and proud people.
They love doing things the hard way.
Every thing they do must be one up and difficult to achieve to show sincerity.
Watch out for that pride that is embedded in their needlework.
Namely extensive colour range and hues, very fine and unique stitching techniques,
layering of materials, durability in design, craftmenship, etc.
Most of the displays are kept behind glass enclosures
with plenty of reflections from spot lights and surroundings.
Exposure reading is around f4 at 1/25 sec at ISO 12800.
This give rise to restricting to short focal length lens usage
due to depth of field requirement against usable hand held shutter speed.
Original plan is to use the 90mm f2.8 macro lens,
but now limited to using my Canon 17-40mm f4L zoom
with Matelbone E-mount adaptor.
Using super wide angle lens did solve the DOF issue,
but result in serious cropping(at least 50%) of original images composition area.
This is where the 42MP sensor can earn it's keep.
Traditional Paranakan's dresses are very sensuous in design.
It's "womanly flavour" can be a little too pungent for me in real life encounter.
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Needlework and colour details looks solid.
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Metallic color looks okay.
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| Enlarge section of boot. |
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| Enlarge section of shoe. |
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Good colour reproduction that looks 3D.
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| Enlarge section of design. |
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| Enlarge section of wallet. |
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| Enlarge section of vast. |
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| Enlarge section of butterfly. |
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| Enlarge section of gold fish |
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Tools of Nyonya needlework trade.
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Overall I'm quite happy with the 7R2M still objects capture
but what about erratic moving objects in same low ambient light situation?
Well, that's my next 7R2M performance review,
sharks challenge at the SEA aquarium.
Note: All above images captured in jpeg, processed with Lightroom and downsize to 1500k resolution..
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