Osprey with Trout - The shot that moved me from Nikon to Sony

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I received my order yesterday. By the time I charged battery it was well after sunset and darker than normal due to overcast and smoke.
I was amazed at how well it grabbed focus on some juvenile great horned owls 🦉 even with 200-600 @ f/6.3 tele. Very grainy but expected, it is impressive.
now I have to drink coffee and delve into this menu.
I have no idea how to set it up correctly, defaults to jpeg files for one thing. 🤷‍♂️
I got 3 days to figure it out before going back to work. 👍
 
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I rented an A1 - longtime Nikon shooter as you may deduce from my previous posts - and frankly was rather skeptical since I was getting such great results from my Nikon D850. This Osprey came within about 30 yards but really moving fast when I focused in zone, manual, bird AF engaged, and shot at about 1/3500 sec. When I pulled this up in LR I was impressed and this is the shot that convinced me to part with a great deal of cash to buy the Alpha 1. What you don't see are the 30 other shots - all perfectly in focus - and my reaction was disbelief at first and then as I got to know the camera, sheer joy. BTW, the weight reduction from my D850 with battery grip, prime lens and TC to the Sony was like ½ and felt liberating. Of course one can get delightful images from Nikon and in fact the Nikon architecture is superior in some ways over the Sony. Heck I still use the Nikon. The difference is an intangible, the difference is fun. I just enjoy shooting the Sony more that the Nikon D850 or my D500. That's my story. View attachment 22428
Well done. Eye is sharp.
 
For me it comes down to how many BIF shots I need to spend $16,000 on a new camera (and a backup body) and telephoto zoom lens. Switching even my most often used Nikon lenses would cost me an additional $44,000 at a minimum. Is the A1 worth my spending $63,000 to build a new system around - I think not.

Having shot with digital since 2002 I am well aware of how one system provides bettery high ISO performance as with Canon's 1d cameras and then a camera like the Nikon D3 arrives that provides even better ISO performance and significantly better autofocus performance. I would not bet $63,000 that a year from now or two years from now that Sony still cameras are superior to those from Canon. If I was forced to go to a mirrorless camera system at this point in time it would probably be Canon or Olympus MFT (with the 50% savings in weight and bulk).
 
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