Douglas L wrote:
My very first shots with the A1. I was surprised only a small rectangle area surrounding the focus point with the spot focus blinked when the shutter is pressed. I better turn on the fake shutter sound.
There are four different options for how the display indicates shooting in ES. Two different color options (white or blue) and either full frame flashing or flash around selected point (unless in Wide or any of the Tracking modes where it is still full frame flash).
Yes I was referring to the swallow shots, truly impressive. Not surprised on the cards filling so quickly at 30FPS Great news on the 200-600! I'd like to hear more about the refresh rate @120 vs. 240 and whether the change in magnification is worthwhile. Nice work there my friend. Take care !
arbitrage wrote:
Yes, in full sun you can probably shoot ISO 5000 without any issue. Not that I would go that high. Today in full sun I plan to stick at ISO 1600 and max out SS and give myself an extra stop of DOF from my aperture if using the 600GM. But more likely I will just use the 200-600 at f/6.3 as I can certainly track better with the smaller, lighter and more agile lens.
The other big issue is how much cropping you do. These are all still decent crops. You can visit my Flickr page to see View All Sizes to see what the actual crops were.
If I have as many opportunities as yesterday I will also do some back to back shooting with the A9II. Also going to try the 100-400 for a bit and see if the dual linear motors give any advantage over the 2-6 (I doubt it based on all my previous experience).
I should also note that the ISO 5000 and 6400 shots also happened to be the shots that were slightly OOF and therefore reducing them with more sharpening made noise worse. I only bothered with them because of the crazy wing positions in the first two and the bug in frame in the 5000 one. I think those ISOs are pushing things if you are cropping much or if the file isn't perfectly sharp. But in other situations I find I can use those ISOs without issue if need be....Show more →
Yes, cropping is the issue as well as blessing with high MP camera (you mentioned it in another thread:. You can't expect to crop AND get same quality as 24mp sensor if the ISO is so high. Anyway we are doing extreme pixel peeping here. The shot with bug is way better than a clean bird without bug in it...
I will be watching for your result from 2-6 and 1-4. I too didn't notice any difference in AF between them may be because A9's AF is so good that it can succeed in most cases anyway. In other words A9 can get 100% success if there's no user error with 200-600, so 100-400 cannot be any better...
arbitrage wrote:
There are four different options for how the display indicates shooting in ES. Two different color options (white or blue) and either full frame flashing or flash around selected point (unless in Wide or any of the Tracking modes where it is still full frame flash).
Geoff, I browsed three the A1's menu twice, I didn't find a setting where I can dictate how the camera to display shooting in ES. Could you point me to where it's hidden? Thanks!
Douglas L wrote:
Geoff, I browsed three the A1's menu twice, I didn't find a setting where I can dictate how the camera to display shooting in ES. Could you point me to where it's hidden? Thanks!
I couldn't find that myself the first time around and Geoff pointed that out to me. It is called Shoot Timing Display and is located in Setup, Display Option, Shoot Timing Display. I ended up selecting Option 1 or dark colored frame around the focusing frame that will blink as the shutter is activated, the same as it was on my A9 II.
AGeoJO wrote:
I couldn't find that myself the first time around and Geoff pointed that out to me. It is called Shoot Timing Display and is located in Setup, Display Option, Shoot Timing Display. I ended up selecting Option 1 or dark colored frame around the focusing frame that will blink as the shutter is activated, the same as it was on my A9 II.
Thank you Joshua. I did some experiments in the shooting display setting, type 1 is black and type 2 is light blue, which is the one I choose. If I choose expanded spot or just spot, the blinking rectangle is still just around the focused area, regardless black or blue blinking color you choose. I changed the focus area from expanded spot to tracking expanded spot, then the whole frame blinked. That kind of make sense.
Douglas L wrote:
My very first shots with the A1. I was surprised only a small rectangle area surrounding the focus point with the spot focus blinked when the shutter is pressed. I better turn on the fake shutter sound.
The manual isnt very good at explaining things, what are the use cases for each, so far, i didnt even know "tracking" wide zone was even a different option. thanks in advance!
arbitrage wrote:
Probably the last bunch....probably....
Geoff
Awesome shots as usual. The ones with bugs are the best. What's your verdict on AF compared to A9? Also about 200-600 compared to 100-400?
I still can't pull the trigger on A1 because I still can't find enough reasons to upgrade. There are 3 major features that are definitely useful, but I can live without. 50MP, 30FPS and bird's eye AF.
Birds EYE AF will be most useful for ME mainly because It's hard to control single point and precisely focus in the eye of a sitting bird or slowly moving birds with MILC compared to DSLR like D500. But not sure if it's worth the price difference.
I know 50MP and 30FPS will be very useful. Many little features are going to be useful as well including camera is not locked while buffer is being cleared, faster wake-up and new VF etc are important to me.. But I feel if there'll be A9III with less MP (30 - 36) and no 8K for around $4500, that will be better choice for me.. I have no hope about that though.
If there's a huge improvement in AF that'll be a big reason for me to get it. But I haven't heard many shouting about it.. Swallows are one of the toughest subject for me. I had very few success with them. What do you think?
. I was surprised only a small rectangle area surrounding the focus point with the spot focus blinked when the shutter is pressed. I better turn on the fake shutter sound.
Great news on the 200-600! I'd like to hear more about the refresh rate @120 vs. 240 and whether the change in magnification is worthwhile. Nice work there my friend. Take care !
