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Must be great to find rare birds in flocks, rather than a solitary vagrant. Owls and owlets can surprise with their camouflage.

Nice shots. What kind of predators do the geese have in Delaware? Migratory geese to India (Greylag and Bar-headed) are preyed upon by Greater Spotted Eagles, Imperial Eagles, and Steppe Eagles. ...

The 200-600mm is a fast-focusing lens as far as zooms go. I don't face too many issues in stills with eagles flying head-on if shutter speed is fast enough, OSS is off, and technique is good. Howev ...

Are you planning to shoot the video handheld? Usually a video fluid head and some practice helps in recording flying birds with the rear LCD, given reasonable distance and speed. Adding a monitor ...

Hehe yes. With all those specs, an APS-C will be quite expensive. Who knows, I might end up buying an a7v and an extender once the a6400 reaches end of useful life?

Thanks Joachim! Sometimes even the birds we ignore show us flashes of beauty.

You are right. After the original post, I did realise that the dream camera might be more expensive than a middle-of-the-range full frame camera. I know, but this is a pet idea. If you have ...

DR: Sony drops the DR when in continuous shooting modes, but I hope greater processing power available now should allow them to provide full 14 bit raw files at least in some continuous drive modes. ...

Thanks Jose. I agree that high FPS would be a good addition. Hopefully they'll have it for the e-shutter mode at least. The FX30 is said to have a sensor with well-controlled rolling shutter, so ...

The Ibis says Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you. Larger sizes on my Flickr account. Enjoy your holidays!

I know this is a much rehashed topic that keeps coming back even after getting banished with 149 posts. However, the following list (in no particular order) is a result of my bird photography ...

You could activate touch to focus when looking through the viewfinder (instead of it being active on the LCD as well). It might help you get over the lack of a joystick.

Unless you have a lens that is sharp only at smaller apertures, you can just shoot in shutter priority. Anyway, if you want to do action photography, better go for later models. The NEX-6 will turn ...

No. Yes. NEX-6 was severely limited - it doesn't even have a custom setting. However it's a good camera for learning photography, shooting landscapes, macros, etc.

There are three leading brands of adapters available for using EF-mount lenses with E-mount cameras: Metabones, Sigma MC-11, and Viltrox (EF-NEX Mark IV). I have the Sigma MC-11 and the Viltrox ...

Quite sensible. This path would have had you spending many more $$$ without getting a commensurate bump in your experience or results. Exactly. Good decision minimising the damage. ps: I dropped ...

The Sigma DC DN 60mm f/2.8 Art lens has PDAF only on the centre focus point. I don't know why this is so, but it really constrains this lovely lens. Later lenses, including the 18-50mm zoom and the ...

What is the exact reason for your unhappiness? That is important information for someone to advise you. Firstly, have you checked if you need another lens, like the 70-200mm f/2.8 or the 100-400mm ...

I don't think focus peaking will give you accurate information about critical focus. Bahtinov masks are the way to go. That's all I know about this topic.

Most of us haven't even used the a6400/a6600 to their fullest potential yet. For a bird photographer, what they're mostly missing right now is bird eye focus. However, people have been taking ...