The way it tracks with the DO and 2x TC is truly amazing. I just fired a few hand held photos at my bird feeder and hoped for one or two decent frames, and I got a shockingly large number of crisp shots, despite sloppy technique. I must have a crappy export preset in LR but trust me the original is scary sharp
stanj wrote:
400DO+2xTC at MFD, further cropped a bit. My back yard is pretty sad for a safari
Heading out to sell my a7r4 as we speak
AlphaPhotography wrote:
What do you like most about your R5 vs A7RIV?
It takes my RF lenses. It focuses reliably. The UI is not confusing. There's a dial lock function. Despite similar resolution files are half as big. It can walk and chew gum (if the Sony is buffering it basically can't do anything else, try changing a setting or switch capture mode and try to capture something). LENR works with AEB at night (comet shots were fun).
The list goes on. The Sony has absolutely gorgeous pixels if you nail them, but the path to that is just way too painful.
Pius Sullivan wrote:
Here is a link to flickr... comparison of the 1dx III to R5 with the sigma 500 f4, (2 albums).
Shows the cropping power of the R5 and looks like the person is shooting in high sun. https://www.flickr.com/photos/hugo_l/albums/with/72157715317736023
Impressive how the R5 managed to stay focused as the KF dove and it seems actually stayed on the head instead of lagging on the tail or even worse, the perch. The 1DXIII did not fare as well and did lag behind on the few takeoffs...which is typical of most (all?) DSLRs and most MILCs also. The extra resolution, mixed with more accurate AF gave much better sharpness/focus even on the simple perched shots. R5 is the winner in this example.
I'd be curious to know how many shots it nailed in takeoff during a burst...that is something we never know from a few nice examples. But what we do know is the guy was able to go out and come home with some super fast KF diving keepers despite the harsh light and long distance to subject. Looks good to me.
Awesome colors I am seeing here.
Thank you all for sharing! I think I will just buy an R to live besides my A7III until the new bodies are lower in price and can be found second handed
