Tony Rogers

I suspect the OP's problem is shooting subjects too far away and then cropping hard. I was just about to suggest increasing the shutter speed! I typically start at 1/5000 sec now and would go ...

Sorry for the slow reply. Been away. The huge difference between the A9II and A1 isn't so much C-AF performance, although the A1 is noticeably better. And bird-eye AF is a big thing for me.  But's ...

That is most peculiar and must be very frustrating. I'm not sure that is a stabilisation problem because I can't see any streaking. The catchlight on the front bird looks okay. Also, as you say, ...

How are you comparing the A1 and A9II images? Could you show us some examples of the images?

I haven't found any problems with the A1 and 200-600 but be aware that the much higher resolution will require faster shutter speed if you are going to use that resolution to crop harder. For ...

They are also directly relevant for image quality/visible noise. True, but compared to the larger sensor, 3/4 of that light doesn't get collected. Going by the aperture changes above, including ...

If it were me, I would wait for the upcoming A7RV. It'll have lots of pixels and is likely to get a speed boost over the A7RIV by using the new processor. Lots of pixels is very nice and flexible ...

I thought that was how all AF areas larger than a single point on any camera worked. Other than setting Centre Priority, what else would you want it to do when using an area larger than a single ...

One thing I initially didn't like about PureRAW2 was that the dng produced looked dramatically different in terms of colour to my usual way of working with ACR/Photoshop. It overrides the camera ...

I find Pure RAW is very good with the worst images but I find it's noise removal a bit aggressive for ordinary use. It's sharpening algorithm seems to have a habit of producing halos too so I ...

Time to go out in some good light and show us how good the images can be!

The A1 always uses 14-bit raw files. But you're right, if you use lossless compressed raw files or uncompressed raw files, the maximum framerate drops to 20 fps. However, I have never been able to ...

I think this is a pretty good result for the OM-1 and in practice, the camera may be better than this in situations where the subject identification can grab the subject when in the past, prior ...

For the driving part, I use the Think Tank 150. For the walking part, I use a Spider Holster Black Widow mounted on a 2 inch webbing belt. I hate carrying things in my hands! I've been using Black ...

You haven't, by any chance, set your AF Scanner setting to "try once and then stop" have you? It might explain the out-of-focus but not the AF confirmation.

I had a similar but different situation in that I was never happy with Panasonic (G2, G3) and Olympus (E-M1, E-M1 II, E-M1 III) C-AF to the extent that I eventually jumped ship to Sony. However, ...

In this case it wasn't. The people having difficulty had changed an obscure setting, "Aperture Dirve in AF" to "Focus". Whilst that might sound like a good idea, that setting is actually intended ...

I see, thanks.

Looking good! What AF area and AF-C mode where you using on the A1? Wide? Wide with tracking? Zone with Tracking? Other? Bird-eye AF? I see you were in APS-C crop mode with the A1. Did you try ...

I have had a look at the raw files. Sharpness seems pretty good and consistent and sharpens well with Topaz. It's very curious that reviewers, including dpreview, don't seem to have noticed how ...