Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2021/04/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- Don don.dory at gmail.com