p.117 #2 · Sony FE 200-600mm f/5.6-6.3 G Image Thread
Photo cross posted in the Sony FE Image Thread and taken at 2:04 PM.
Looking at an Immature Tricolored Heron.
Cropped, supported hand held out car window 200-600mm G set to 582mm and A7rIII; silent shutter.
ISO 200, f8.0, 1/800 second.
Exposure corrected +0.29 Stops.
January 2, 2020
Along Black Point Wildlife Drive, Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge, FL.
p.117 #4 · Sony FE 200-600mm f/5.6-6.3 G Image Thread
arbitrage wrote:
From this morning's shoot...
Geoff, seems like a huge amount of keepers you with the 200600. Are you using the 200600 more than the 600/4?
And what on Earth will you pick for the day's shoot when the R5 lands on your stoop
p.117 #5 · Sony FE 200-600mm f/5.6-6.3 G Image Thread
MedicineMan404 wrote:
Geoff, seems like a huge amount of keepers you with the 200600. Are you using the 200600 more than the 600/4?
And what on Earth will you pick for the day's shoot when the R5 lands on your stoop
Depends on how tired my arms are
I use them about equally I'd say. If you go checkout the 600GM thread you will see my morning and afternoon shoots from yesterday all with the 600GM.
As far as keepers go, I see no advantage in # of keepers based on the AF prowess between the two lenses. Really I see no AF advantage to the 600GM until I stick TCs on the lenses. Then the 600GM has an advantage (at least at 1200 but some at 840 also).
I've cancelled the R5 order so I won't have to worry about that one until September at the earliest (when the 100-500 is released). But the R5 would be an A7RIV replacement. Of course if the Z7s has superb AF-C then it might get the nod just because of the 500PF that will never be sold even if it sits on a shelf without a camera to mount to it for awhile
p.117 #19 · Sony FE 200-600mm f/5.6-6.3 G Image Thread
arbitrage wrote:
Morning sunrise kayak...
Hi, wanted to mention that I tested the 200-600mm without the TC 1.4, like you said about trying in our previous conversations in other posts.
In my tests I found at 600mm and wide open at 6.3 I was able to get sharp bird pics to my eyes, but stopping down to f8,f9,f11 was sharper, especially when getting a lot further away in a test of lettering on a object far away in the distance.
I put the teleconverter back on doing the same test, and the lettering at f9 on the same object far away was only as sharp as 6.3 without the TC. Stopping down further to F11, and the sharpness was restored to the same as it was at f11 with the native lens.
Would this be a indictation that my TC 1.4 is not a good copy, were stopped down at f9 with TC is only the same level as the unstopped aperture of 6.3 with just the native lens, or is it normal and you have found this to be the same result with your teleconverters? Thanks.
p.117 #20 · Sony FE 200-600mm f/5.6-6.3 G Image Thread
win10-64 wrote:
Hi, wanted to mention that I tested the 200-600mm without the TC 1.4, like you said about trying in our previous conversations in other posts.
In my tests I found at 600mm and wide open at 6.3 I was able to get sharp bird pics to my eyes, but stopping down to f8,f9,f11 was sharper, especially when getting a lot further away in a test of lettering on a object far away in the distance.
I put the teleconverter back on doing the same test, and the lettering at f9 on the same object far away was only as sharp as 6.3 without the TC. Stopping down further to F11, and the sharpness was restored to the same as it was at f11 with the native lens.
Would this be a indictation that my TC 1.4 is not a good copy, were stopped down at f9 with TC is only the same level as the unstopped aperture of 6.3 with just the native lens, or is it normal and you have found this to be the same result with your teleconverters? Thanks.
Maybe I don’t understand what you are asking but when you are shooting @f9 with the TC the lens is wide open. The reason why it’s F9 now is because the TC reduces the amount of light, equivalent to ~1 stop. So @f9 with the TC the image will not be sharper then with the bare lens because you aren’t really stopping down the lens.
