Question specifically for Steve and Sony A1ii purchasers

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BrianSmall

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Steve,

Can you take a look at this video and offer an opinion if you think this will affect wildlife/bird photography? I know Patrick says probably not but I'd like to hear what you think:

 
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If you’re talking about the occasional wonky autofocus then yes at times I miss shots because of this. I have the A7RV and A6700 with the AI processor and at times it does some strange things. Most of the time the autofocus is better than the current A1. Arbitrage brought this up about the A93 as well. I am only assuming this is what you’re referring to. I think Steve has the A93 as well.
 
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You can always count on PMR to be confused and confuse everyone else.
This video makes no sense as he is confusing two things.
First of all the first setting he turns to OFF which he claims is new to the A1II is on his A9III. So this isn't new at all. That first setting just disables all subject detection. If you turned this off for bird photography there would be no bird af/eye af running at all.
The second thing he mentions is the only thing new in the A1II. By default (I assume) the A1II runs in the new Auto mode. PMR is probably correct in that you should not run Auto and instead select the proper subject (in his case humans). For us we would want Bird.
However, by turning off that first setting (subject recognition in af) he is turning off all subject detection so it really doesn't matter what subject he has selected.

So he is either saying that Auto subject detection isn't working but Human is and therefore he should leave subject detection on and change from Auto to Human. OR he is saying that even Human isn't working and then he should turn subject detection off. But as long as he isn't using Auto he should be able to use the same settings he has been using on his A9III the past year. If you go watch his A9III setup video he has Subject detection ON and set to Human. So I don't get why he is so adamant to turn it OFF in this A1II video???

On my A1 I do have a button programmed to toggle Subject detection on and off because sometimes the BEAF is grabbing some other dark spot in the frame and not an eye and won't let go so it is useful to turn it off for that scene.
 
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arbitrage said:
You can always count on PMR to be confused and confuse everyone else.
This video makes no sense as he is confusing two things.
First of all the first setting he turns to OFF which he claims is new to the A1II is on his A9III. So this isn't new at all. That first setting just disables all subject detection. If you turned this off for bird photography there would be no bird af/eye af running at all.
The second thing he mentions is the only thing new in the A1II. By default (I assume) the A1II runs in the new Auto mode. PMR is probably correct in that you should not run Auto and instead select the proper subject (in his case humans). For us we would want Bird.
However, by turning off that first setting (subject recognition in af) he is turning off all subject detection so it really doesn't matter what subject he has selected.

So he is either saying that Auto subject detection isn't working but Human is and therefore he should leave subject detection on and change from Auto to Human. OR he is saying that even Human isn't working and then he should turn subject detection off. But as long as he isn't using Auto he should be able to use the same settings he has been using on his A9III the past year.

On my A1 I do have a button programmed to toggle Subject detection on and off because sometimes the BEAF is grabbing some other dark spot in the frame and not an eye and won't let go so it is useful to turn it off for that scene.
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That’s the way I have mine set up as well. I use the AEL button for this setting. There are times like you mentioned on another post that I feel the AI auto focus seems to get confused for whatever reason. I have found it more likely in bright conditions and really don’t understand why.
 
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arbitrage said:
You can always count on PMR to be confused and confuse everyone else.
This video makes no sense as he is confusing two things.
First of all the first setting he turns to OFF which he claims is new to the A1II is on his A9III. So this isn't new at all. That first setting just disables all subject detection. If you turned this off for bird photography there would be no bird af/eye af running at all.
The second thing he mentions is the only thing new in the A1II. By default (I assume) the A1II runs in the new Auto mode. PMR is probably correct in that you should not run Auto and instead select the proper subject (in his case humans). For us we would want Bird.
However, by turning off that first setting (subject recognition in af) he is turning off all subject detection so it really doesn't matter what subject he has selected.

So he is either saying that Auto subject detection isn't working but Human is and therefore he should leave subject detection on and change from Auto to Human. OR he is saying that even Human isn't working and then he should turn subject detection off. But as long as he isn't using Auto he should be able to use the same settings he has been using on his A9III the past year. If you go watch his A9III setup video he has Subject detection ON and set to Human. So I don't get why he is so adamant to turn it OFF in this A1II video???

On my A1 I do have a button programmed to toggle Subject detection on and off because sometimes the BEAF is grabbing some other dark spot in the frame and not an eye and won't let go so it is useful to turn it off for that scene.
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Yup! I don’t get him sometimes either. Super nice guy but he often confuses more than he helps.
 
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