Photo sharing: Sony Alpha

zackiedawg said:

A few birdies from this weekend, with the A6300 and FE70-300mm G OSS lens:

Really closeup with a cormorant, showing his beautiful colors - the eye is amazing, like a south seas ocean viewed from an airplane...and the inside of the mouth is blue too:

Juvenile cooper's hawk who had just rousted some ibis, and was resting on the rail after failing to catch a dinner:

Moorhen chick and momma:

An increasingly rare native Floridian green anole (they're being killed off by brown anoles from Cuba), ready to jump from reed to reed:

A mighty rare sighting for me - a common nighthawk in the sky over my yard (they are night hunters and rarely out in daylight hours around here - it was early evening and a thunderstorm had blocked out the setting sun, so it was getting darker than normal for that time of day). I've only ever photographed one once before, about 6 years ago, from an even greater distance:

A large-headed female double-crested cormorant, resting one foot on the handrail of the boardwalk, not caring one bit about me:

This lens is a beauty...enough so that I sold my beloved FE70-200mm F4, which while a gorgeous lens, just wasn't going to get much use anymore, because the same overlapping range with the FE70-300mm lens, which is equally sharp through the whole range and only loses 1/2 to 1 stop of light, PLUS adds 100mm more on the long end.

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fractal said:

Sony A99ii anounced.

http://www.imaging-resource.com/news/2016/09/19/sony-news-live-from-photokina-2016

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havoc315 said:

It looks pretty darn awesome.... if Sony hadn't been neglecting the mount for the last 4 years.

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fractal said:

Priced aggressive. Same as the A7rii.

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havoc315 said:

Arguably better than the A7rii..... better battery life, 12 fps, live view EVF at 8 fps, new menu system.
The downside compared to the A7rii -- lack of the newest lenses. The FE lineup has quickly surpassed the A-mount lineup in most respects. And the SLT mirror will hamper image quality --- but remains to be seen by how much. If the IQ manages to stay pretty close to the A7rii, then it becomes a very very impressive camera body.

I'm a little surprised --- I thought we would see this same camera, nearly exact same camera, but as an A9. Larger body than A7... faster burst rate, deeper buffer, dual card slots.

This is clearly a camera for "prosumers" --- But the A-mount base has been shrinking, and prosumers aren't going to switch into a system that hasn't been developing its lens lineup. Which is why I thought these specs would be launched as an A9.

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fractal said:

I was just looking at the A-mount lens lineup and came to the same conclusion. It pretty amazing how quickly the E-mount lens chooses filled in over the last 12-18 months.

A99ii definitely better overall specs to the A7rii. They also managed to make it smaller than the A99.

Rumor is the A9 will have a 75mp sensor.

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