Too dreary yesterday to attempt f/5.6. Especially because I mostly just wanted to play around with precapture and needed fast SS. Will try that combo once the light allows. Not sure that will happen this weekend.
They look very similar to what I get with the bare a1 + 600GM, ie not quite tack sharp on the head despite the shutter speed and having the AF at its most responsive setting, which is why I've always maintained the a1 will not do pre-capture.
Would be interested to hear if the bare 600 remedies this.
louie champan wrote:
I'm really enjoying the Pre-capture feature on the A9III, here's a few from a recent trip to the Bluebirds.
twodees wrote:
They look very similar to what I get with the bare a1 + 600GM, ie not quite tack sharp on the head despite the shutter speed and having the AF at its most responsive setting, which is why I've always maintained the a1 will not do pre-capture.
Would be interested to hear if the bare 600 remedies this.
That's just a failure to have the right settings. Pre-capture has nothing to do with it. I've been using pre-capture for the last several months with my A9III and I get SO many shots I would have missed with any other camera. I am typically shooting small birds that move rapidly--while the may perch in a spot for a second by the time I've swung the camera, framed and hit the shutter they are taking off. Whereas in the past I would get an OOF bird in the process of taking off, I will now get some great shots. Here's an example of exactly that sequence. By the time I finished fully pressing the shutter button it had taken off. I got two usable shots from the 12 that pre-capture had taken.
Pretty heavy crops as these Swallows were skiddish and stayed a ways out. With the 200-600. I'm beyond impressed with the A9III thus far. These birds are small and ridiculously fast and up against a very busy background.
InFocus2014 wrote:
This seems like it would be a dream camera for professional sports photographers who are looking for that magical shot where, as an example, the ball is coming off the bat and even 30fps makes capturing such an iffy proposition. Also, such photographers typically do not need high resolution, so even 24mp should not be a problem if they have the right lens.
Having said that, I am not sure how they will be able to quickly cull thousands of frames sitting in the press booth to upload those magical shots for syndication.
Sony has put some serious effort into exactly this. They know culling will be harder with so many more images.
Each burst of images is grouped (you can turn that off if you want to), so you can flick through burst by burst (instead of image by image). When you find the burst you want, you open it, and you can play it as a video to assess the content. Then you can roll through the images using the back dial, back and forth. Find the one, or two, or however many you want, and star them (C3 on the back of the camera by default - one to five stars, although you can reduce the options - I run with one, three, or five). Or you can protect them, then delete the rest.
The various connection methods (and there are more than there used to be) can be told "upload only the starred images" or "upload only the protected images".
There's more to it, but they have done a pretty good job of making it easier to deal with the culling.
Tony Ross wrote:
I've seen a number of people expressing that kind of opinion, based on a few early reviews that were "careful" in their assessment of this camera.
Have a look at all the images in this thread - can you really believe that statement in the light of these examples?
I've not really seen any images in difficult lighting situations. Like backlit, super underexposed, or the opposite - highkey, overexposed. These are the types of images I like taking, and I think it is possible that this sensor may struggle more in those situations.
It is not like you can't do landscapes, backlit etc with this camera. You just shoot it like any other cameras and do what you need to do to avoid blown highlights, get enough exposure in the shadows etc. Nothing changes in my opinion.
randomguy wrote:
It is not like you can't do landscapes, backlit etc with this camera. You just shoot it like any other cameras and do what you need to do to avoid blown highlights, get enough exposure in the shadows etc. Nothing changes in my opinion.
