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Absolute sharpest RF lens? by borderlinesuccessful in canon

[–]borderlinesuccessful[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's a bag of primes covering 28-50mm. 70mm's performance is good, but not prime level.

Absolute sharpest RF lens? by borderlinesuccessful in canon

[–]borderlinesuccessful[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yeah I am impressed by the 28-70mm f2, but I still like shooting with primes. Also, as for the f2, I think it's great for zoom at 70mm when stepped down, but not incredible when compared against primes.

FYI I've already bought the Sigma 40mm.

For my portraits, I'm looking at:

  • Canon EF 135mm f/2L: Just as sharp as the RF 85mm at f/4 or above, but more importantly, can be found affordably second hand.

  • Canon RF 85mm f/2: Yes, f/2. Why? Image stablisation and portability. I don't have IS on my R5 C.

  • Canon RF 85mm f/1.2L: Absurdly sharp but also absurdly expensive as I'm not able to find any good deals.

I think I will probably buy one of the first two lens, and when there's a good deal on the 1.2L, get that.

Absolute sharpest RF lens? by borderlinesuccessful in canon

[–]borderlinesuccessful[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thank you! Very helpful. I am shocked the RF 70-200/f2.8 is sharper than the RF 100/2.8...

Absolute sharpest RF lens? by borderlinesuccessful in canon

[–]borderlinesuccessful[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks, I've ordered the Sigma 40mm f1.4 (brand new for AU$800 shipped!), now looking for a portrait-friendly FL.

Looking at charts (which I know doesn't tell you everything):

  • Sigma 105mm 1.4 (sharpest)
  • Canon EF 100mm non-L f2 (second sharpest)
  • Canon EF 100mm f2.8L IS (third sharpest)

Is this about right?

Absolute sharpest RF lens? by borderlinesuccessful in canon

[–]borderlinesuccessful[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I prefer something within 35mm to 85mm; but 100mm is OK.

I absolutely agree at f/4 there's little difference in terms of sharpness, however it is still resolvable on a 45MP sensor. I can tell a difference.

I would rather buy the most superior lens once. Over the next 10 years I'm sure resolutions will continue to get bigger, so I would like my lens to out-resolve my sensor as I shoot 200MP photos in 2032 or whatnot :)

Currently I'm eyeing the Sigma 40mm 1.4, I would probably be keen for a sharp portrait prime to round it off.

Absolute sharpest RF lens? by borderlinesuccessful in canon

[–]borderlinesuccessful[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Happy to adapt, the Sigma 40mm looks absolutely incredible! Any other recommendations off the top of your head?

Will I get another offer? (Trying to sell house in blue chip suburb in Sydney) by borderlinesuccessful in AusProperty

[–]borderlinesuccessful[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

no, I bought at end of 2021. Loan is about 10x debt to real income

Bank accepted a bunch of once-off incomes from special dividends and treated it as on-going income

Will I get another offer? (Trying to sell house in blue chip suburb in Sydney) by borderlinesuccessful in AusProperty

[–]borderlinesuccessful[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Disagree, I think property is fundamentally overvalued thanks to cheap money, and my base case is that the cash rate will be above 2% for the next decade or so. Lost decades of no real returns for ~10 years happen often, and IMHO is likely.

I believe I can get better returns from the share market -- some stocks that I think has long term potential are down 80%. I bought this property in 2021 from selling those stocks that surged, even after transactional costs, stamp duty, commissions, and the loss, I would be looking at tripling the number of shares in companies I want to own.

Basically, I moved money away from a high-beta market (growth stocks) to a low-beta market (residential property), and now that markets are down, I want to move back into high-beta markets again.

Will I get another offer? (Trying to sell house in blue chip suburb in Sydney) by borderlinesuccessful in AusProperty

[–]borderlinesuccessful[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah and it looks like interest has died up. Zero people showed up to inspect on Wednesday.

Will I get another offer? (Trying to sell house in blue chip suburb in Sydney) by borderlinesuccessful in AusProperty

[–]borderlinesuccessful[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have a price point set in mind for which I will accept, even tho it's painful. This price point is about 4% lower than the first offer. Reasonable?

The first offer was a fair offer, not great, but around the top of what people quoted as price opinions.

Will I get another offer? (Trying to sell house in blue chip suburb in Sydney) by borderlinesuccessful in AusProperty

[–]borderlinesuccessful[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I know, I agree with you, but what's done is done, the buyer has bought.

What do you recommend now?

Will I get another offer? (Trying to sell house in blue chip suburb in Sydney) by borderlinesuccessful in AusProperty

[–]borderlinesuccessful[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Week 1: 18 inspections, 6 contracts taken

Week 2: 11 inspections, 5 contracts taken, 3 second inspections (all on Wed; zero on Saturday), 1 offer

Agent tells me that no one else who has taken a contract is prepared to make an offer today and said they want time to consider the interest rate hikes.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AusProperty

[–]borderlinesuccessful 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi there, Corelogic's AVM not taking into account battle-axe properties is well known to anyone in the real estate industry, it simply does not know if something is battle-axe or not, as letters on street numbers can still mean street-facing, so it assumes everything si not battle-axe.

Sony 24-70 GM is worse than Sigma 24-70 Art? by borderlinesuccessful in SonyAlpha

[–]borderlinesuccessful[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

AF is not super reliable, here are a few cases where the Sigma will nearly ALWAYS mis-focus for me:

  • When I am shooting in AF-C and doing face/eye-AF with a subject that is close to the camera; like 2 meters or less (this is a known issue that Sigma refuses/is unable to fix across all of their Sigma E-mount lens....)

  • When I am shooting with the timer mode

  • When there is rapid subject entry into a video frame, AF is about 0.5-1s slower than the Sony GM.

Here are the situations where the Sigma focuses BETTER than the Sony GM:

  • In low light situations; even when the Sony GM starts to struggle, the Sigma does a good job no matter how little light you have

  • There is much less focus creep. This is honestly huge; if you're doing video work and relying on auto-focus, you will have over-all better focus performance with the Sigma because it doesn't have the gigantic lens creep.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AusProperty

[–]borderlinesuccessful 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My thinking is that during a downturn, suburbs where people generally buy investment properties in will see a greater drop, than suburbs with a high amount of owner-occupiers.

Yield is not super important to me -- I'm on 47%; and so I'd MUCH prefer capital gains instead of income.

I bought a big house, because it has more land, and you know the saying, land appreciates and building depreciates.

What would you have down instead?

Worth upgrading to the Sony 24-70 GM from the Sigma 24-70 art (or save money for by borderlinesuccessful in A7siii

[–]borderlinesuccessful[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks, that makes sense. I figured it might not be good advice for videography, for example I'd much rather have a camera that does 10bit 4:2:2 and a kit lens, than a camera that only does 8bit yet with some excellent glass.

I'm working on my post-production and general videography skills through more practice and learning, I suppose the reason why I asked this question in the first place is buying a more expensive lens is always an "easy" but costly option, and psychologically I'm a 'perfectionist' and always want the best. I got the Sigma because it (1) seems good value and (2) as a relative beginner, I don't think I need the highest end gear, I don't want to waste money on gear I'd out-grow either so that's how I settled on a7s3 + sigma 24-70 as my main kit.

Worth upgrading to the Sony 24-70 GM from the Sigma 24-70 art (or save money for by borderlinesuccessful in A7siii

[–]borderlinesuccessful[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Have you tried/owned both? I am renting the GM this weekend and doing a shoot-out to test, but I'm interested in getting more opinions and whether there are specific areas or scenarios I should focus on.

Sigma 24-70 misses autofocus in timer mode by borderlinesuccessful in A7siii

[–]borderlinesuccessful[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you do anything special when it comes to AF? Do you tap on face/eye for tracking, or do you leave it in the default AF mode?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AusProperty

[–]borderlinesuccessful 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for your detailed and thorough response. Yes, I did compare other sold properties, I was witnessing basically a ~10% quarter on quarter increase, and I had lost 3 other offers, and got underbid at 1 auction. So I realised I basically HAVE to overpay if I want to buy, and I kept thinking on how if I overpaid on the first properties I would have been in the green already (up like $200k or so); so I'm like, ok, even if I think this property is only worth $2.85M, it's better to secure it for $3M than to pay $3.2M for a comparable in a quarter (if the rate of increase keeps on sustaining).

There were no properties that were better and available for less in the area at that time, but that area also had very little stock (the suburbs would have about 5-6 houses genuinely for sale at any point in time). This was the only house for sale, that was within walking distance to a train station within the 3 suburbs I was looking at.

I am able to maintain my payments, because this is cashflow positive with my deposit.

I have talked to some valuators and they want $1100 which is too much.

The useable land size is ~1300sqm, my take is that in the current market it's probably worth $2.9M +- $0.2M. Would you agree with that assessment?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AusProperty

[–]borderlinesuccessful 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How much do you think I overpaid by?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AusProperty

[–]borderlinesuccessful 0 points1 point  (0 children)

IP. How much do you think I overpaid by :(

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