I know 40Driggs you aren't addressing me, but I must say living in Southern Idaho with all the wildlife this A7RV is perhaps the best camera I've yet owned for that purpose as well as landscapes and portrait work. I don't find the slower fps to be an obstacle at all.
40Driggs wrote:
What are your thoughts on the camera for wildlife?
Still very early days with only one full morning shoot under my belt. I typed up a few first impressions on BCG forums so I will copy and paste that here. I'll update my thoughts after I have more time with it.
From my post....
"This morning I finally got to shoot a full morning with an A7RV I have on loan for a few weeks. Perfect full sun conditions which always favours the AF. One of the first full sunny days I've had in months. Just mentioning that as my thoughts in relation to the A1 have been based on the A1 shooting in cloudy and rainy weather for the past couple months. AF always takes a hit in those conditions.
That said, I was mightily impressed with the consistency of the AF from the A7RV today. I think it was hitting as good as the A1 would. Certainly as good as the A1 on FW 1.31...maybe the A1 has the edge back on FW 1.2. Still, very impressed with it for BIF. I mostly shot Caspian terns, oystercatchers and buffleheads for my flight subjects.
I'm not sure if the new AI AF and all the convoluted setup options is really needed. I'd say the A7RV seemed on par with the A1 for shooting foraging shorebirds, killdeer chicks and warblers in regards to how and when it activated the BEAF. I didn't have any wow moments because of the AI chip.
However, there is no getting away from the lack of a stacked sensor. The actual shooting experience for BIF and even non-BIF is just sub standard when I'm coming from shooting A9, A9II, A1, Z9, R3 and even R5 (with non stacked sensor). ES is basically unusuable at H+ due to the laggy slideshow it produces, in H it is okay as it is just blackout but still pretty stuttery and laggy. So had to shoot mostly in MS at H+ to get the max 10FPS and prevent rolling shutter distortion anyways. Having to listen to that stupid shutter all day when I usually shoot ES without any fake sounds was annoying. And still the view you get when quickly panning and actively firing the shutter at a BIF is just not great even in MS.
A couple cool things I noticed with the A7RV....
Formatting the memory card is now super fast like a Canon and Nikon. I raced the A1 formatting a CFe-A (which is always faster than SD) and the A7RV formatting a V90 SD and the A7RV smoked it. Even though formatting on earlier Sony cameras wasn't all that long it always annoyed me how long it was.
BEAF seems to behave more like Canon and Nikon where it is more likely to identify the bird/eye in APS-C mode when the bird is small in FF mode. On A1 it is backwards where it sometimes won't identify the bird in APS-C mode (even though it is bigger on the screen...although not bigger on the sensor) but then you switch into full frame and it identifies the bird/eye.
Oh and I had to update FW to 2.0 and using the memory card was so, so nice!!!
I've got two more full days to shoot this weekend so will see how my thoughts progress. Sunday should be cloudy so will be interesting to see if the AF falls apart in the lower light."
SpaceX FalconHeavy launching Jupiter3 from Pad39A at Kennedy Space Center from the press site about 3 miles away. Used a button assigned settings f18 ISO100 1/8000. 400mm 2.8 lens. Jupiter3JW504531rt by John Winkopp
Karmal wrote:
Hi I use a lot of them I have the 12 24 gm 24 70 gm ii 70 200 gm ii 100 400 gm 400 gm and 600 gm it depends what you want to shoot greetings
Oh interesting! Are primes not really something you like or does these lenses just perform so well you don't need them?
