palmor wrote:
Ok, got the camera and took it out to the blind for about 30min in-between meetings. Lighting sucked but it was a good test of the AF and it passed. Having the BEAF is really nice, no more worrying about getting the point right on or if zone if getting the eye vs something else. I can see this working very well for Warbler season
Took these in RAW, converted RAW to TIFF in the imaging app (ouch, that is ugly) and brought into Lightroom for a few adjustments and topaz denoise
Edit: Tried capture one for the 3rd shot, still ended up exporting to Tiff and importing into LR ...Show more →
"ouch, that is ugly" - Can you please explain? Did you mean the IQ is bad or workflow is tough? I thought Sony Edit is one of the simplest programs by manufacturers (may be like DPP).
Jemini wrote:
"ouch, that is ugly" - Can you please explain? Did you mean the IQ is bad or workflow is tough? I thought Sony Edit is one of the simplest programs by manufacturers (may be like DPP).
The imaging edge software was awful IMO. I admit I'm not used to using it but I did not enjoy it at all.
You can update camera raw this morning and open with photoshop, then save directly from ACR to dng, then import into LR. Still clunky, but at least adobe clunky. Hopefully LR gets update today or at least this week.
Fun test here. This image is a frame-grab from an 8k video of two sandhill cranes doing their unison call. I have to work on the colors a bit since it was recorded in SLOG-3, then brought into PS and color corrected. I need a LUT for PS!
randomguy wrote:
Huge upgrade from my old A9 in all levels except it seems to drain batteries noticeably faster.
Menus take some time to get used to.
EVF is much better (and probably partly reason for battery drain).
Image review, zooming, culling (setting for double click delete button) is much faster, at least with CFA cards.
Power on, wake up from sleep much faster.
Bird eye AF is a bit hit and miss, need to control it by using suitable focus area (or it may jump between subjects) and disable it when it jumps to something else than an eye. Fortunately you can assign a button for instant toggle. I am optimistic this will improve in new firmware, human eye AF has had updates for many years now. Animal eye seems better but only tested it on images of animals on screen so far.
I believe it is as good or better than the A9 on the old AF modes. Despite having 50 megapixels.
As I am sure you know there is no longer a real penalty anymore for using electronic shutter, DR, rolling shutter performance and anti flicker are now practically as good as with mechanical. The electronic shutter artifacts that you can sometimes see in fast wing beats of small birds (from the sensor reading out multiple rows simultaneously) also seem to be significantly improved over my A9 as far as I have been able to test (not tested it on small birds yet though, only the spokes on the wheel of my bike).
In shot this feels like a camera that can handle any situation. ...Show more →
One thing I forgot to mention is that wakeup time seems MUCH faster. I wasn't even paying attention and I half pressed the shutter after it went to sleep when a bird flew in range of the blind and I started to just wait expecting the usual lag, but it was ready way before I expected.
No scientific process here, but it was noticeable when I wasn't looking for it.
cmarker wrote:
This is a fun little rocket. I was really excited to try with my 3 year old to see how autofocus performance improved over my A7RIV. It did improve, but I can't say that it was revolutionary (probably because the A7RIV was pretty good). I think testing it in different lighting will show more of an effect.
I didn't think I needed 30fps, but I decided to try it out. It is quite scary how fast it is. It was quite unexpected (I never had an A9). It would be awesome for high speed sports. I think 10fps is the max that I would ever need.
JPG/HEIF out of the camera are quite good. I will compare it to the raw in CaptureOne later today. ...Show more →
Can anyone compare the autofocus with people, children, dogs, sports to autofocus with the A9/A9II? How does real time tracking compare with people/faces/eyes?
cmarker wrote:
This is a fun little rocket. I was really excited to try with my 3 year old to see how autofocus performance improved over my A7RIV. It did improve, but I can't say that it was revolutionary (probably because the A7RIV was pretty good). I think testing it in different lighting will show more of an effect.
I didn't think I needed 30fps, but I decided to try it out. It is quite scary how fast it is. It was quite unexpected (I never had an A9). It would be awesome for high speed sports. I think 10fps is the max that I would ever need.
JPG/HEIF out of the camera are quite good. I will compare it to the raw in CaptureOne later today. ...Show more →
I can only compare to A7III, but imho it's night and day (how quick and sticky eyeAF now is) in that case..
My first images using this camera... but no kestrel, no white-tailed kite, no burrowing owl and no peregrine falcon though, just flycatcher on a windy afternoon late afternoon. For the very first time, I was using the Birdseye-AF yesterday and it worked splendidly on this little guy. Can we say STICKY ? He did take off but I haven't processed the image yet. The workflow is clunky at this point...
How does the keeper rate compare to a9 in long bursts?
I would assume BEAF could make the difference in bursts of large birds, when depth of field is not enough for the whole bird to be in focus. In this scenario more keepers could be the result of A1 finding the eye instead of tracking the wings or the tail.
GMPhotography wrote:
Can we have photos of anything but birds.
No...
I wonder if these manufacturers have woken up to the realization that all the money for these cameras is coming from wealthy enthusiasts these days. I bet there are more retired bird photographers buying this thing day 1 than any other genre. But who knows for sure. FM may just skew that perception. I'm sure AP bought a few truckloads.
? He did take off but I haven't processed the image yet. The workflow is clunky at this point...
