DutchMM

Hi Martin, just to fuel your GAS (though that's a kind of fuel in English ;-) ) here is an album from Christmas time with my son-in-law and grandson. Skating album with Batis

Jose, the simple truth is I don't know whether the 135 is the ideal lens for swallows - probably not for someone more proficient than me, or someone shooting in some other environment than my ...

I ought to have said that when the travel restrictions subside I shall use the Batis 85 for portraits of my grandchildren.   Based on my experiences so far, it was good for candid full body shots ...

Hi Martin I have an 85mm Batis and the 135mm GM.  I bought them both (in the order I mention them) to give myself a better chance of still having a swallow in the frame by the time the a6600 reacts ...

I agree with Martin about using as small an AF area as you can.  I would add the suggestion that (as long as you are not shooting BIF) you use AF-S (or a custom button to AF lock, if that is ...

Just to be clear, Thad, I wasn't accusing Sony of conscious bias - at the worst I suspected they might have imported some algorithms built at a time when darker skins were not so prominent in the ...

Jose Thanks for that - I have had trouble registering white faces (to respond to something Thad says in his answer), and yes it does seem to be related to the amount (and perhaps direction of) ...

Thad I have another question (apologies if someone else already raised it; I am on limited bandwidth atm).   Is the problem (as) evident with faces you have already registered on the camera? Good luck

Interesting, and counterintuitive at first.  My thought on short exposures was no doubt conditioned by the need to follow swallows that are traversing my small garden at high speed.  And flapping ...

Hi On the IBIS, you are right - my mistake.   I came from the A-mount world where IBIS had been a standard for years (my first A-mount, the A55 had it in 2011) straight to the a6600, so I assumed ...

I have had similar results with our summer swallows.  Prints up to 40cm x 60.  Say 16x24 inches.  This lens is definitely a keeper. Love the egret (for some reason, none come and fish in our pool). ...

Brajesh According to my (by Gary Friedman) handbook for your camera and my a6600, SteadyShot (as opposed to OSS) is available for your camera. Camera settings menu 2, Tab 4. It's confusing that ...

Did he say SteadyShot was off?  I must have missed that.  Which is one of the problems with reading fora in the very early morning.

Have you tested the throughput to your memory card by shooting a burst on a non-moving target?  If you are able to shoot more frames (with all the same settings) than when panning, this would ...

A fairly desperate suggestion you might say - with the current thread topic, especially - but if you can get the subject's eyeball in frame, and are prepared to shoot RAW, then you could use the ...

Breathtaking! I have seen a bobcat in a zoo, but I was safely on the other side of the fence.

My experience - using this combo on the a6600 - echoes yours - beautiful but doesn't AF fast enough for sports/BIF.   Still, given the fact that I could only get pennies for it, I'll keep it for ...

Well said, José!  Let's show the nay-sayers the evidence. Mike

Paul No problem ... except it seems I am unable to answer your question. The version option on my a6600 just reports the firmware revision for the EA5 adapter, and as I have given my A-mount body ...

Sadly, so can I.   But as long as my a6600 lasts, it's not an issue; or at least until I get as good at composing the shots as the 6600 is at capturing them. Cheers MM