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 p.2 #11 · p.2 #11 · Steve Perry on the Z9 with FW 4.1 - follow up video | |
aboutthelight wrote:
To be clear I sincerely hope that Nikon has surpassed Sony when it comes to AF. That will just push Sony to push the limits even further on the next release. Who knows that may be in a few days. I am not even considering changing again any time soon. I switched when Nikon had a d850 and Sony had an a1 and mirrorless 600. There was no comparison. That said Nikon has done a fantastic job of catching up with their cameras (assuming you are OK with larger, slower and heavier of course) and they have surpassed Sony with their lenses. No doubt. However that still does not change the fact that doing a video with giant slow birds or distant birds as your subject and showing that as proof has little to no value for me. Look up the B&H education channel on youtube. I just did a talk for them on BIF and included something like 29 species in the talk. From giant slow birds to small fast and erratic birds like swallows, titmice, vireos and the like in flight. And the A1 is absolutely killer for those things. The point is that to me that video is a poor example of what these cameras can actually do. I find little to no use in focusing on a distant gull or heron not moving and claiming that is better for anything. Here is the link for the talk but I don't know if it will work. Also for clarity I included a few d850 shots in the talk as well....Show more →
Interesting power point presentation and Q&A. It is always good to see how others approach bird photography and I hope it is successful in attracting more participants to your workshop.
I did shoot the A1 and 200-600 for a while and agree that it is a fantastic set-up for some shooters. But as a hybrid shooter, by the time you rig an A1 to do what the Z9 can do, it is the A1 that is too bulky, heavy and lacking in agility and that is before we even factor in lenses. And eye AF does not work in video, or at least I could never get it to work. I also found the A1 body too small for my hands and I did not like the balance of the 200-600 which has all its weight at the front.
Were I able to afford a 600/4 and only shot stills, I would probably have gone forward with the Sony system. The AF was slightly better than the Z9 at the time (although the Z9 was still a "killer" for small erratic birds) and I enjoyed the 30FPS (but hated the slow buffer clearing, slow start-up and slow, small and crazy expensive cards).
I agree that Steve could have shown more examples in his video but I am not sure that means he did not consider and test scenarios other than those he shows.
The A1 is a great camera and I am glad that it suits your needs. Anyone on this board could have bought one but didn't. Their needs are different and the Z system better met their needs. Since you are deeply invested in Sony and "not even considering changing again any time soon" I don't understand why you join a long line of Sony shooters posting here trying to assert otherwise.
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and that's WITH a teleconverter on, should be theoretically even better performance with it off.
