jhapeman wrote:
I got 30 minutes this evening with mine and the 600GM + 2x Teleconverter. I'm really impressed. Really, really impressed. The AF is fast and sticky and for perched birds slightly better. Still has the Sony weakness of needing to use a smaller zone to get it to rapidly find and lock on a bird. Not sure why they keep letting that linger when it seems like a good AI model update would address it. That said, I'm so used to how I shoot now to compensate that I don't think about it much. I programmed most things to match how I have my A1II's set up, but I do miss that upper left dial.
The files are gorgeous, high-ISO noise is impressive and cleans up really nicely with LR's AI DeNoise. AWB seems to be greatly improved, even better than my A1II's/A9III, which have been really good. The IBIS is great, I was shooting 1/500s handheld at 1200mm and getting tons of crispy shots, which is harder at that high pixel density. For my perched bird photography this thing will be killer, good enough to leave my A1II's behind if I don't plan on BIF work.
My one quibble is the VF has a bit of lag when on high resolution. I can't be the only one who's noticed this?
When I first was setting up the camera I noticed a weird viewfinder lag at one point, but after customizing some EVF and other settings in the menu the lag disappeared.
jhapeman wrote:
I got 30 minutes this evening with mine and the 600GM + 2x Teleconverter. I'm really impressed. Really, really impressed. The AF is fast and sticky and for perched birds slightly better. Still has the Sony weakness of needing to use a smaller zone to get it to rapidly find and lock on a bird. Not sure why they keep letting that linger when it seems like a good AI model update would address it. That said, I'm so used to how I shoot now to compensate that I don't think about it much. I programmed most things to match how I have my A1II's set up, but I do miss that upper left dial.
The files are gorgeous, high-ISO noise is impressive and cleans up really nicely with LR's AI DeNoise. AWB seems to be greatly improved, even better than my A1II's/A9III, which have been really good. The IBIS is great, I was shooting 1/500s handheld at 1200mm and getting tons of crispy shots, which is harder at that high pixel density. For my perched bird photography this thing will be killer, good enough to leave my A1II's behind if I don't plan on BIF work.
My one quibble is the VF has a bit of lag when on high resolution. I can't be the only one who's noticed this?
When I first was setting up the camera I noticed viewfinder lag at one point, but after customizing some EVF and other settings in the menu the lag disappeared.
Jun 04, 2026 at 10:02 PM
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