You are welcome. Perhaps B&H will also carry it when RRS gets them ready for distribution. Those may be my two favorite stores.

The RRS website says the BA1 is available for preorder. That may or may not be what you had on backorder.

Quoted from site:
“The Really Right Stuff BA1 camera body plates are custom designed for the most secure fit as possible on the Sony Alpha-1, A7RIV, A9II, and A7SIII.”

Great photo. (Bob, I noticed that too.)
I love that song. I especially love it by one of my all time favorite singers, Tony Joe White, who wrote the song. (RIP)

Made me smile. In the summer of 1967 at age 14, my driver education class used a 1967 (four door) Dodge Coronet. Can you imagine today’s 14 year old kids with their real driver license!
On September 1, they raised the age requirement by two years. My first license was on thick pinkish paper with no photo.

Thank you for the input. I also think this thread has been an interesting discussion. I do think there are circumstances where some might consider it more than just academic. I’ll explain my thinking.

I posed the original question to satisfy my own (academic) curiosity and to help me decide what lenses to take on an upcoming trip to the mountains. For my wide to normal photos, I like to use primes. I am taking multiple primes including a recently released 35mm f1.4. There is also a newly released 50mm f/1.2 lens I plan to buy but I missed out on the few days it was available. Now I have to wait for it to become available again. So, my posed question was to help me decide whether I’d be happy using that new 35mm or to also take another lens that covers 50mm. So, I consider that to be non-academic. Like you, I’m fortunate to buy what I want (when it’s available).

Another situation I consider non-academic is for those many less fortunate photographers to be able to intelligently know what they could do with a prime lens and cropping the image to mimic a longer focal length and to know what may be lost or gained in the process.

Some of the things I have gleaned from this thread - based on the very specific criteria I posed and may need to be referenced - are:
1) the perspective is the same - note the two images posted by Ysarex.
2) cropping the 35mm image is going to reduce the file size by eliminating pixels outside the selected crop size. This decreases the resolution of the final cropped image. The 50mm image is using all those pixels in the final image; the cropped 35mm image is not.
3) the 35mm lens, by the nature of wide angle lenses, is going to have a greater depth of field. Note again the two images posted by Ysarex. Thank you Ysarex. 👍🏽

There may also be some other differences such as vignetting but those are likely to be negligible differences.

Thank you everyone for your valued input. I feel like my question has been answered quite thoroughly.

Thank you guys 👍🏽

Thank you everyone for your responses. 👍🏽

OK Pros, I’ve been contemplating this and haven’t been able to come to a conclusion.

Consider this: Same camera, same position, same subject (except of obvious field of view), same settings (ss, aperture, iso, white balance, basically everything), same quality and features on lenses - like number and shape of aperture blades …

One photo with 35mm lens, one with 50mm lens.

Then, in post processing, the only adjustment is to crop the image made with the 35mm lens so it matches the image made with the 50mm lens.

Finally, my curiosity - other than the obvious file size difference, are there any other differences in the images such as compression, distortion, etc. or are the images virtually identical?

When I was born, my family had a 1946 version. It wasn’t a pretty blue like this one. When I was two years old, my brother and I were in the back seat one night while we were on Highway 90 (now IH-10) when I must have been fiddling with the door handle. The door caught the wind and flung me out at around 55 mph. Frightful night for my family who had to come back looking for me. They found me in the ditch, crying for a bandaid.

I agree too.

I believe the previous comments are accurate. I’ll use my wording to give my two cents.

When you are not using full manual settings, meaning shutter, aperture and ISO, your camera will make adjustments in the automatic (non-manual) options to achieve a mid-tone (18%) gray exposure to the metered area (in this case, the metered area being the total image).

One of the images has more snow in it (hence, the “framing” already mentioned). The snow is VERY bright. So the camera is decreasing exposure more in that image to get to that mid tone gray. (SS 1/500 vs 1/320.)

Further confirmation or critique of my interpretation is welcomed.

Thanks f8lee 👍🏽

WOW! That’s impressive Fotoartist. 👍🏽

Thanks Wanderer.
I guess I was hoping some new artificial intelligence software was smarter than me on this matter. 😉

Thanks SaxMan. Wishful thinking gets me only so far.
(On an aside note, if you play tenor sax, I’m envious.)