Sony A1 Examples: Glacier Canyon, Mt Dana

2021-10-10 • SEND FEEDBACK |
Related: Eastern Sierra, Mt Dana area, peak bagging, Sony, Sony A1, Sony FE, Sony FE 12-24mm f/2.8 GM, Sony mirrorless

This page looks at Sony A1 image quality as used for landscape photography on a hike up Mt Dana’s Glacier Canyon on as clear an autumn day as I’ve ever seen—a feast for the eyes with the relatively gentle sunlight of early October. Indeed, the conditions were perhaps the best I’d ever had the luck of having (hyper-clear air, minimal wind), though two days later things disappeared in smoke.

Sony A1 Examples: a Hike up Glacier Canyon, Mt Dana

Includes images up to full camera resolution, mostly from the Sony FE 12-24mm f/2.8 GM.

Dana Creek, Glacier Canyon

f9 @ 1/160 sec handheld IBIS=on electronic shutter, ISO 100; 2021-09-30 10:23:55
Sony A1 + Sony FE 12-24mm f/2.8 GM @ 12mm
ENV: Glacier Canyon, altitude 11000 ft / 3353 m, 60°F / 15°C
RAW: LACA corrected, vignetting corrected, +20 Whites, +10 Clarity, diffraction mitigating sharpening

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Dana Lake #4, view to Mt Dana

f11 @ 1/80 sec handheld IBIS=on electronic shutter, ISO 100; 2021-09-30 11:46:30
Sony A1 + Sony FE 12-24mm f/2.8 GM @ 12mm
ENV: Glacier Canyon, altitude 11500 ft / 3505 m, 60°F / 15°C
RAW: LACA corrected, vignetting corrected, +20 Whites, +10 Clarity

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