These are all superb images! You really have perfected dragon fly photography.
I notice that you use both the 200-600 and the 100-400. Maybe you can say how you compare them for this type of photography. You get excellent results with both, but I tend to favor the 100-400 for this type of work since it focuses a bit faster and has a closer MFD. Your results are far better than mine, so I would be interested in your comparison.
I'm always pleasantly surprised how clear and detailed images taken with these long lenses can be. Beautiful! Color rendition also. Handheld? Third from bottom is my favorite.
dclark wrote:
These are all superb images! You really have perfected dragon fly photography.
I notice that you use both the 200-600 and the 100-400. Maybe you can say how you compare them for this type of photography. You get excellent results with both, but I tend to favor the 100-400 for this type of work since it focuses a bit faster and has a closer MFD. Your results are far better than mine, so I would be interested in your comparison.
Dave
Hi Dave
Would say that 100-400 is quite much better for just pictures like this
I would probably get better results in detail if I use the A7rIII on 200-600, but if I use AF on this body it is so much worse than the A9 , so I usually put 200-600 on the A9, then it feels like the A7rIII focuses even slower and more unreliable AF when I use tubes also, maybe I imagination but I think it seems so
I think both perform well and to a bigger bug, a tele is so much smoother than a macro, with Sony 90G you have to get so close almost on the insects, which can disturb them so that they disappear, of course you get less magnification but it gets better with tubes that I have used on many of my macro images this year since I got them , of course there will be light loss and here the disadvantage is higher iso, but you can not get everything
PhilPDX wrote:
I'm always pleasantly surprised how clear and detailed images taken with these long lenses can be. Beautiful! Color rendition also. Handheld? Third from bottom is my favorite.
Superb work ! the perches, the backgrounds, detail, colors, variety all top notch. The 3rd image from your second set is killer ! Great collection
Gary
these are outright insanely awesome Ronny. How do you get such good results with A9 and 200-600?
I am struggling with that set up in low light situations
My vacation is over so now back to work again 
