AlphaPhotography wrote:
Nice shots but these still don't look anywhere near as sharp as I would expect with the A7RIV and a good copy of the 200-600. Not sure if it's the focus issue or the lack of sharpening but I've seen far better results when the A7RIV nails focus and even from 24mp sensors.
For sure...but the issue is it can't even reliably take a photo of a still bird on a stick or a duck floating by without back focusing most of the time. I don't need it to do challenging BIF (although today the RIV and 600GM was nailing Kestrel's IF so the body ain't terrible) but I do need it to reliably take a perched bird photo
Arbitrage ... I believe you and you have been very helpful in sorting things out. I am not that good at BIF but like to try anyway. I have both the A9II and the A7R4 and for BIF its the A9II all the way. But I would like the A7R4 to work for still images with the 200-600 for some more sedentary. So I gave it a try yesterday with quite a few shots and most came out like these photos, which are cropped quite a bit. They were sho in RAW and just converted to JPG. No sharpening was applied. To my eyes they look pretty good. Maybe I got lucky.
Were the examples you provided processed in any way? Mine where straight out of the camera with just conversion from RAW to JPG? I just want to make sure we compare apples to apples.
Jun 21, 2020 at 10:34 PM
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