MILC man

for shooting sports you'll have significantly better af with a stacked sensor body. i'd suggest a used a9, they typically have little shutter wear because people use the electronic shutter. menu is ...

it was apparently an electric bike battery not a motorcycle battery, do we know if it was 3rd-party? there are a lot of companies selling both electric bikes and conversion kits for bikes. the u.s. ...

for better af, you won't get there with eos-r, it'll need to be r5 or r6. what you want for shooting action is a stacked sensor body... a used a9 currently has the best af r.o.i. on the market by a ...

i re-read the carey article, so to answer my own question, yes when af tracking a player that's inside the custom focus box, looking at another player with eye control af apparently puts the...

@KZ7 - looking at it again, that is probably a better assessment of how it works.

where i had doubts was when carey said this: "I defined a custom area that was roughly the height and width of a...

eye control af would be very helpful for event videographers, it should allow you to do things like rack focus between two subjects while recording, which must be done without moving the camera...

@Kona Mike - "I don't understand what you are trying to say. In the scenario I mention, there are two faces in the frame."

you don't understand that face detection is automatic for sony, canon,...

@PNad - "...eshutter fine tuning is NOT the same feature as flicker reduction."

?? it reduces flicker, per the links, so how is it "NOT" flicker reduction?

"Last week’s Sony a9 II firmware update...

Kona Mike - "The hero would start off as the offensive player, but as the final 1/2 second of that play evolves, the defender knocks the ball away and the hero changes. Can you switch faces fast...

@davev8 - "...so you are at a soccer match and sony is tracking a player what do you do if you want to change to a different player or even the to the ball?"

see the video above... you pan the...

@PNad - "I did nearly 50 weddings with the A9 and this is absolutely wrong. When using wide area af"

no, the problem there is that you weren't using sony real-time tracking, because it's not done...

first off, most sports shooters don't focus with the shutter button, they use bbaf.

beyond that, it depends on how the system is utilized... some shooters will have a custom size focus zone set,...

even the best dslrs have shutter lag, see the d5 for instance:

Prefocused[lag]: 0.039 second = Time to capture, after half-pressing and holding shutter...

no, i'm not, as i've clearly demonstrated in multiple posts on this subject: Is the Canon EOS R3's Eye Control AF good enough for sports shooting?: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com) canon ...

f/11 primes with a severely reduced focus area, even on the r3, but fwiw they fit in a supertelephoto price segment that sony hasn't addressed.

nikon saw the light with the 600mm supertelephoto...

@PNad - "...but only with the A1 about 3 years later were we able to sync eshutter with flashes and offer flicker reduction in electronic mode as well."

that is incorrect, the a9ii had electronic...

people clearly don't know what sony real-time tracking is and how well it works for target selection, despite the xlnt video that dprtv made: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pn0fh4XHpLY

it renders...

i've shot tens of thousands of race car pics, including many with the a9, it's a specialty area just like any other type of shooting. the first rule with cars is that you need enough dof to cover ...

i see by your post history that you apparently don't own sony, so i'd suggest looking at how real-time tracking works for subject targeting... so far, i personally don't see any need for "eye ...

many of us are already shooting sports with sony, the smaller size is preferable and so is the better battery life, most of us do not want to go back to a porky dslr-style body.

people used to...