By: Steve Dickson

Steve Dickson — Sat, 02 Mar 2019 04:07:52 +0000

Hi Artie, I look at this photo of the pelicans beak and it looks really sharp to me. The feathers around it seem very sharp also. When I take in the whole photo, the subject of the photo is the beak. If it was my photograph, I’d want the beak to be this sharp also. if some of the feathers are not as sharp, this wouldn’t bother me because the main subject, the beak, is very sharp. I don’t understand why someone would have a problem with a part of the photograph that did not include the main subject being less sharp. The fact that the subject of the photograph is sharp is what matters.

By: Byron PRINZMETAL

Byron PRINZMETAL — Fri, 01 Mar 2019 23:59:28 +0000

Artie,
It seems to me one cannot have everything. In the Sony A9 case as I understand it you (we) have a system:
1. With their 400mm lens with 2x extender is lite and easy to handle. That is, one does not need to be a 20 year old to hand hold the camera and lens combination all day to capture sharp bif images. For mature people this might be a really big deal.
2. Sony’s af for bif is great and you say in some situation like birds flying straight toward you at full speed is fantastic and perhaps as good as if not better than the competition.
3. The file detail, color et al is ok for a 24k file. Both Nikon and Canon file detail might be better, but Sony’s is more than acceptable.

The above is “my” reading of your comments so far. From my perspective for bif images, the priority would first: can I hold the camera all day (I am part of the over the hill gang with a bad back), does the af work well, and lastly, but importantly are the files workable.

I might be wrong about my interpretation of what you have been saying so if so please excuse me.

Comments on: Clean, Tight, Graphic, and SONY. And a Saturday location change.

By: Steve Dickson

By: Byron PRINZMETAL