Bummed out by Ryan Menses review of the A1 for birds. It appears it is stellar on the stills side of things but is still lacking on the video side of things. (Ryans attempt to focus on Goldeneyes appeared to be a lesson in futility.) For those who shoot video of birds, here are the things that are a bummer:
1. No way to assign a button to enable tracking. Tracking can only be enabled by touching the back display/touchpad. This is a problem especially when using the viewfinder and have to reach down to tap the display. If you are wearing gloves or housed in a case for underwater filming, just forget about it.
2. No animal or bird eye detect. Only tracking if you can enable it.
3. Tracking appears to be unreliable.
I have the A7SIII and use it extensively for recording wildlife/birds. It works "ok" and have learned to work with its so-so tracking. I assume I'll have to do the same with the A1.
My complaint here is that if I am forking out $6,500 on a camera, I would expect it to perform just as well in video as with stills.
Has anyone here used an R5 for bird video? From what I can see, bird/eye detect seems to work quite well. Hmmm....
