GMPhotography wrote:
I know you guys know I love ya but I still have to bust one once in awhile. Birds are certainly safe and you are all being good campers but let’s start to get moving again. I beat the damn thing with a infusion. I got lucky no question. Please stay safe
Oh and I admit you guys are killing it on the birds.
Maybe not exactly landscapes but something wider :
Everything else except birding can be done by a7rIII/a7C effectively, landscape and people namely.
Douglas L wrote:
I am guessing most of the folks who rush out to buy the A1 are after its AF, FPS and high resolution for cropping, hence so many bird pictures. Of course the A1 is much more than a camera for bird, it just happened that most of the initial buyers are birders.
Wow, those are beautiful, Jim. Some of the best aurora shots I've seen, and I love and am always on the lookout for them.
jschn372 wrote:
A couple from an intense aurora in Northern Minnesota early Saturday morning. The first is with the 20mm 1.8, second is with the 12-24 2.8
nandadevieast wrote:
Everything else except birding can be done by a7rIII/a7C effectively, landscape and people namely.
True, but at this price this would become my "only" camera (I would be switching systems) for wildlife, landscape, macro and underwater use. So, I wanted to get a feel for how it does in these other disciplines, since, for wildlife, it is the ultimate home run as is obvious here.
From the aurora, star, and building shots, it looks like it excels at everything but I want to be sure and am very glad there are forums like this to help me with the decision.
guyharrison wrote:
True, but at this price this would become my "only" camera (I would be switching systems) for wildlife, landscape, macro and underwater use. So, I wanted to get a feel for how it does in these other disciplines, since, for wildlife, it is the ultimate home run as is obvious here.
From the aurora, star, and building shots, it looks like it excels at everything but I want to be sure and am very glad there are forums like this to help me with the decision.
I think the point is that from a pixel count perspective and other capabilities, this really is the "do it all" camera. There's nothing any other model of Sony MILC can do that this one can't do, and do better. That's no doubt why Sony also called it the A1 and not the A9III. The only difference is slightly fewer pixels than an A7RIV, that's it; in practice that minor resolution difference is all but impossible to see. The big draw for the wildlife photographers is the new BEAF so that's why there's so many people posting about that--especially since many of us who photograph birds have been dying to get a camera like this since...oh, forever.
This morning we had some fresh snow, so on my way to work I thought about testing A1 and my two new lenses to see how this combination performs on the field. These pics are not cropped (purposely to show the corners), profile corrections applied on ACR, all shot at infinity. Hope this helps for someone looking this camera for landscape or similar work. I'm very happy with the result, white balance is better than any camera I used before.
so far I have taken 30K some shots and, I am very impressed with A1's ability to track subject. I had this sequence of Bald eagle flying behind the tree at 30 FPS and had 9 frame of which was completely obstructed by the tree and all are in focus. Here is one of the frame.
Just got delivered my A1 this morning, spent about an hour or so configuring it and then couldn't wait to get out and give it a try. Nothing much going on in the march area closest to me, so didn't get anything to interesting.
louie champan wrote:
Just got delivered my A1 this morning, spent about an hour or so configuring it and then couldn't wait to get out and give it a try. Nothing much going on in the march area closest to me, so didn't get anything to interesting.
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. Of course the A1 is much more than a camera for bird, it just happened that most of the initial buyers are birders.
