RikWriter wrote:
According to Alex, he took them as JPEGs and didn't post-process.
If he had the Creative Style set to Vivid and/or moved the in-camera Sharpness slider all the way up, that might produce that overbaked look in a jpeg. Images shot with very sharp lenses like the Sony 400 and 600, whether RAW or jpeg, don't look like those images.
If, if. if. Since there is now a 100-400 f4.5 thread, I am sure we will get to see over-baked, half-baked, and under-baked images. And we will get various opinions on which look best. It is already apparent that
the images by Alex do not look over-baked to a number of people.
A sharp shot of a fast-moving subject with a 2x TC impresses me more than a not as sharp shot of a still image with a 1.4x TC.
Just received mine. Based on what I read, I expected it to feel lighter than the 200-600, but it feels even lighter than I was expecting. Bought it for soccer but I think it will work well as an indoor event lens where I won’t have reserved seating in the front, so chalk that up to the 100-400 (vs the sigma 300-600 I was considering). I’m going to get the 28-70 f2 at some point, but with that, the 50-150, and the 100-400, pretty solid, versatile trinity lens set up IMHO.
