The unofficial official Sony a1MKII Thread

[Jose Raposo]

Regardless of the f/s the BIF will exit the frame in the same split second. the advantage of 50mp is that you can zoom out and increase that split second.

I love the Kestral shots but I think Jose would have captured the subsequent image in the sequence if he positioned the perched bird differently in the frame.

After I take a perched bird shot, I Zoom out. I position the bird in the extreme edge of the frame. With the above Kestral shot only the bird's eye and beak would show. That would gain me about double the distance the BIF would stay in the frame. Hopefully, the next shot or two in the sequence would be the BIF in its full glory and I could crop out the perch.

As David says I am always in pre-capture, so I have multiple perched shots full frame but I can't get that BIF in full frame so I need to crop because I zoom-out. The 20MP of the OM-1 obviously limits that.

The Painted Bunting shot below is not the last decent shot in the sequence. I just liked the wing position better. Obviously cropped.

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Beautiful shot Tom.
In respect to the three shot sequence of the Kestrel, there are an additional 8-10 frames after the last frame in that three frame sequence including a full wing spread I didn't post the entire sequence. They have a pretty predictable flight pattern so panning shots once launched isn't very difficult.

Kestrels generally launch into the wind much like most raptors so I usually position the perched kestrel to the right third of the frame, usually in the upper quadrant because they have a tendency to launch downward and then arch their back to gain some altitude and then level off, it's a body position that I really like to capture.

American Kestrel female by Jose Raposo, on Flickr

American Kestrel by Jose Raposo, on Flickr

 

[Louis champan]

Thanks David for taking the time to document your findings and feeling toward this new camera. I've got my name in for one, but I'm reading this thread and others carefully before jumping since I already own the A1 and A93. Some very interesting and thought-provoking comments being made here.

 

[wildlife_62]

How are they behaving differently?

When I have the A1 set up for manual focus as above I press the joystick and the manual focus scale appears in the viewfinder, when I do the same setup on the A1II I get the magnified image with two levels of magnification and the manual focus scale. Not sure why they are different?

 

[wildlife_62]

Thanks all for the advice , I found the answer. Auto magnifier in MF was set on by default, so I just switched it off. Don't you just love how much customisation of settings you get with a Sony

 

[Steve]

Steve, I saw where you indicated you'd switched to HE* on the Z9. Is there a specific reason you avoid the lossy compression on the Sony (vs. the Nikon)?

I just haven't played with it as much, so I'm not quite comfortable with it yet
However, if it's really just the difference between 14 and 12 bit, then it doesn't matter for most shooting - most wildlife shooting anyway. You lose the 14 bit advantage after you dig in a couple stops with ISO. I have the camera set to Compressed at the moment. Still, it would be nice to have lossless compressed and compressed as an auto toggle when you go 30 FPS.