The second image is a 100% crop of the area that's supposedly in focus. The pixelated nature of the image is just how the EXIF program works and not how the original image looked. That's noted by the green target, which was directly on a belted Kingfisher. I used the A7Info EXIF program to see where the camera claimed to be registering focus. But so far results have been the complete opposite of that.Īs soon as the rain clears up I'm taking the new 200-600 out on the A9 to make sure this isn't a dud lens, because as of right now the results on the A7RIV are basically unusable unless you can fill a significant part of the frame with your subject, and even then the focus is barely passable, and by no means tack sharp. In fact, when I bought my A7RIV last year I did so knowing that eventually I was going to purchase the 200-600 and thinking they would be a match made in heaven or the extra reach in cropping, which was the only thing I felt the A9 / 200-600 combo was lacking. I expected similar performance from the A7RIV, with maybe just slightly worse AF performance. Tack sharp and many keepers, even from someone like me who's admittedly not the most skilled birder. I rented the 200-600 last year and used it exclusively with the A9 and the combo was incredible. I haven't had a chance to test it out with this new 200-600 as I've only had the lens about a week and the 3 days it wasn't raining during that period I took the A7RIV out for small birding so I could have the extra reach. Good prices now as out for a while and no great difference from the a9ii other than some network options and the like (might want to double check that as I haven’t looked too much into the 9ii, I just know the original is still a great camera and will perform with the 200-600) I specifically bought the 200-600 after I purchased the A7RIV for extra reach with wildlife, so I'm pretty bummed right now. Unfortunately I haven't had a chance to try the new 200-600 on my A9 yet as it's been terrible weather on all but the 3 days that I took the A7RIV out to shoot, and the next week is more rain most days. I'm going to have to do some extensive testing with the 200-600 on my A9 to see if I can get any better results, but I've honestly been pretty disappointed with the performance on the A7RIV after absolutely loving this lens on the A9 last year. The noise grain is also extremely well controlled at 5000ISO while I've noticed the grain can get pretty bad on the 200-600 at anything over 1600 on the A7RIV (the noise is probably more noticeable due to the subject usually being slightly out of focus).
This image is a processed jpg while the first image is a screenshot of a SOOC RAW file, but the second image did not have any significant sharpening done to it. Bird in front (which was the point of focus) is what I would consider "tack sharp". Animal eye AF was not a thing at this point.
Second image: A9 with rented 200-600 last year. I took about 4 images in a row just like this and all of them are exactly the same.
Eye is soft but ear, fur on rear leg, and leaf in front of rear leg are tack sharp. Animal eye af was highlighted on the squirrel. I will include a few examples of photos to show you what I mean.įirst image: A7RIV with recently purchased 200-600.
I had no trouble getting tack sharp images on the A9 during last years rental. I have not yet tried my new lens on my A9, as I had been using it specifically on the A7RIV for more ability to crop, yet I have not gotten what I would consider a single tack sharp image in 3 straight days of shooting small birds and wildlife at local parks. I rented the same lens last year and used it on my A9 and don't remember having any focus issues at all. I've recently purchased the Sony 200-600 G, and I feel like no matter what I do, it's slightly missing focus on my A7RIV.
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