In my last post I asked, “Is the Sony α7S the answer to my restaurant review photography dreams?” For that particular restaurant which was well lit I thought the Sony α7S performed particularly well. How about a really dimly lit restaurant? On Friday night we went to just such a place, a fantastic restaurant, one of my favourites, but really dimly lit.
You can read the blog post on Yummy Lummy.
SONY ILCE-7S with E 35mm F1.8 OSS at 35mm and f/4, 1/250sec, ISO 12800
SONY ILCE-7S with E 35mm F1.8 OSS at 35mm and f/6.3, 1/8sec, ISO 12800
SONY ILCE-7S with E 35mm F1.8 OSS at 35mm and f/6.3, 1/8sec, ISO 12800
SONY ILCE-7S with E 35mm F1.8 OSS at 35mm and f/6.3, 1/6sec, ISO 12800
SONY ILCE-7S with E 35mm F1.8 OSS at 35mm and f/6.3, 1/13sec, ISO 12800
SONY ILCE-7S with E 35mm F1.8 OSS at 35mm and f/6.3, 1/10sec, ISO 12800
SONY ILCE-7S with E 35mm F1.8 OSS at 35mm and f/6.3, 1/5sec, ISO 12800 | You can see the graininess in this photograph especially.
SONY ILCE-7S with E 35mm F1.8 OSS at 35mm and f/6.3, 1/8sec, ISO 12800
SONY ILCE-7S with E 35mm F1.8 OSS at 35mm and f/6.3, 1/10sec, ISO 12800
So what do you think? Is the Sony α7S up to the task for restaurant review photography? I certainly need to practice a lot more. These images were pretty poor straight out of the camera. It took some effort in Adobe Lightroom to get them looking like this which for me is acceptable for a blog.