One from yesterday my first day out with the a1 I was very happy with how well bird detect worked and most times it did find the eye it did lose it a few times but quite honestly i think that's to be expected .
Incredible shots! I think this is the most complex to shoot bird in the world. Completely unpredictable trajectory. Congratulations
PS. If this is your first time on swallows, you have a great skill... and camera.
Jemini wrote:
Making harder to wait to buy the camera!
JasonTheBirder wrote:
Wow, wow. these are some of the best, most detailed swallows I have seen. Awesome! That A1 is really tempting...
Thank you.
JeyB wrote:
Incredible shots! I think this is the most complex to shoot bird in the world. Completely unpredictable trajectory. Congratulations
PS. If this is your first time on swallows, you have a great skill... and camera.
Some A1 non-bird shots during an overcast day of our bird-feeder robber and tooth-mark vandal cropped and downsized to 1000 pixels on one side. The A1 found the eye immediately and stuck to it, although a squirrel's eye should be easy, despite the squirrel's quick and often unpredictable movement.
Sony ILCE-1 FE 200-600mm F5.6-6.3 G OSS /6.3 600.0 mm 1/2000s ISO 4000
Sony ILCE-1 FE 200-600mm F5.6-6.3 G OSS /6.3 600.0 mm 1/2000 4000
Sony ILCE-1 FE 200-600mm F5.6-6.3 G OSS /6.3 600.0 mm 1/2000 4000
Sony ILCE-1 FE 200-600mm F5.6-6.3 G OSS /6.3 600.0 mm 1/2000 4000
Male Hen Harrier we don't see these very often so pleased i had a chance today although they are big crops . It was hard for the a1 to pick it up when it was close to the ground but it was a long way off so to be expected that said it did get me quite a few shots .
Rob.
Most of my Eagle and Osprey photography takes place at a local reservoir dam which is lined by tall trees and 20-25 feet high river banks. When the action happens you get little warning and constricted views. For most AF situations the A1 seems slightly better than the A9ii. The exception is acquisition speed which seems exceptionally quicker in this enclosed and fairly low light environment.
I was searching for some A9II features and saw the IR review that says A9II has better algorithm that help the AF. A1 has 120 calculations per second which should improve the success rate for BIF.
I know the first thing need to be improved is my skill
arbitrage wrote:
IME there is no AF speed difference between the A9 and A9II.
I'm still not even convinced there is an AF speed difference between the A9II and A1 but I need to test it more.
Thanks for comments, I think the a9mkII is just a little behind the a1 although the acquisition speed is quite a bit quicker and this in the end will give you more shots.
I think I would have got shots with the mkII but there would not have been enough MPs and for birding this really does help when you just can't get closer and is one of the main reasons I bought the a1 .
Birds in the UK are very shy so to me the question was will the a1 let me get shots the a9mkII won't get the answer is Yes .
Rob.
Jemini wrote:
I was searching for some A9II features and saw the IR review that says A9II has better algorithm that help the AF. A1 has 120 calculations per second which should improve the success rate for BIF.
I know the first thing need to be improved is my skill
Having shot the A9 since May 2018 and now the A9II since Feb 2020, I can say they are equal in AF. Sony did say that the A9II had a slightly upgraded processor that improved AF speed and precision. I could just never tell any practical difference in the field.
Now I have started to notice some differences with the A1 vs the A9/A9II. Mostly in the consistency of focus for a small, fast BIF over a long burst. I will keep forming a more in depth opinion as I get more time behind the camera. I really just need to get back to swallow shooting and I should have a really good idea. I think the swallows are here now but the weather doesn't look great for the next three days.
