[Leica] Bird Eye AF

[Douglas Herr]

I had a chance to give the alpha 1's bird eye AF a real-world workout today, using both the 100-400 GM and 600 GM.

My conclusion, Cliff's Notes version: Not perfect but clearly a game-changer.  Whether the keepers are any better or not is TBD but the keeper rate is dramatically higher; this plus the high frame rate means I have a LOT to choose from.  Photos to follow.

Doug Herr
Birdman of Sacramento
http://www.wildlightphoto.com


-----Original Message-----
>From: Don Dory via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
>Sent: Apr 11, 2021 2:00 AM
>To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>Cc: Don Dory <don.dory at gmail.com>
>Subject: Re: [Leica] Bird Eye AF
>
>I appreciate it when marketing hype isn't.  Next up will be your 600 with
>it's steeper focus curve and whether the software/hardware works together.
>I suspect so as sports photographers have the budgets for that lens and
>need the focus accuracy so working properly drives sales downstream.
>Downstream would be the 100-400 which is largely affordable.  Birders have
>been paying up for superior binoculars forever; I had a nice chat with a
>birder at Ink Lake and he was sporting a very well worn pair of Zeiss 8x56 .
>
>On Sat, Apr 10, 2021 at 10:09 PM Douglas Herr via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
>wrote:
>
>> For those of you who have been following some of the recent developments
>> in mirrorless cameras, I can report that the Sony alpha 1's bird eye AF
>> (BEAF) works quite well.  Warblers are among the jumpiest of birds and the
>> camera's BEAF had very little trouble keeping the focus on the bird's eye,
>> even when the bird was partially obscured by foreground foliage.  The only
>> problems it had were when the bird took and extended bath with much
>> splashing.
>>
>>
>> http://www.wildlightphoto.com/birds/parulidae/setophaga/coronata/setcor27.html
>>
>> http://www.wildlightphoto.com/birds/parulidae/setophaga/coronata/setcor28.html
>>
>> Doug Herr
>> Birdman of Sacramento
>> http://www.wildlightphoto.com
>>
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