I've heard people raving about the "eye focus" feature of the Sony system. I have to say I'm a bit underwhelmed. It seems that the stars really need to be aligned for it to work, i.e good light, subject looking right at the camera, subject within within a certain distance, etc. Reminds me of the "single-point spot AF" on the canon 5d3....I was never blown away with that feature. Maybe I'm expecting too much.
My family had Christmas on the 26th and my niece's Birthday is on the 27th, so here are a couple snaps from our evening celebration (thought they went welll with your shot, idsurfer) .
-Marlon- wrote:
Nice shot! Super!
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Thank you Sergey. Little "Tatiana" looks so sweet ice skating. We got rare snow on our 1500m high mountaintops.
chiron wrote:
EF 11-24mm f/4L with Metabones Speedbooster Ultra on 6500
Lovely photo! How do you like using the Speedbooster? I looked into it because I thought shooting events with effectively a t-stop more light / one stop lower ISO would be beneficial, but then I realized the A6000 is a little more than a stop behind the D750 in SNR so it would be a wash at best.
Thanks very much, Lee. I took this picture hand-held, which limited my dof. I came back with lights and a tripod and shot it at f/11, but it turned out that I like the softer focus on the Christmas balls more--it may match them better to the soft edges in the painting.
I like the Speedbooster a lot. I am migrating over to Sony from Canon, where I have been for a long time. I gradually accumulated a very strong set of EF lenses, and I do like Canon lenses a lot. So, in migrating to Sony, I am trying to continue using them as much as possible while also gradually acquiring native Sony lenses. I had a 6300 and now a 6500, and I am waiting for the next iteration of the A7 series to go into FF.
As I am sure you know the 6300 and 6500 would give you better dr than the 6000. The Speedbooster is sort of an amazing thing. I've never run into a focal reducer before. The designer of the SB, Brian Caldwell, has published some MTF charts showing the Otus 50 with and without the SB, and it appears to actually improve the performance of the Otus, at least by those charts. It is very nice being able to use all of my Canon lenses on the 6300/6500. The SB seems very well made and reliable. Longer lenses seem to focus more slowly with the SB in poor light, but otherwise my EF lenses are quite snappy on it. I take it your lenses are Nikon. I don't know to what extent the performance on the SB would vary between the Canon and the Nikon lenses.
Snow keeps Piling up here. a6500's AF tracking did very well with this little guys running right at me. Lost focus for two shots during burst mode then re-captured. This was with E50 1.8 @2.8
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