Thanks for this detailed review. I'm just learning and practicing with birds in fight and have a question about focus area. I appreciate your comments regarding just starting with using wide. I am curious as to why you would not recommend using the Lock-on AF: Flexible spot. I use back button focus, is it not the case that when using the lock-on AF that once you acquire the image you can take your finger off the button and just pay attention to the bird? Or is it better to keep the AF active using the wide mode and fire away? I may be way off but would appreciate your thoughts and advice. Thanks James
Nothing wrong with lock-on flexible spots, but for new photographers it is incredibly difficult to use. You have to use it in situations where you have a cluttered background though. The Sony cameras are designed to use wide and zone very effectively, but that is just one tool in the arsenal of focus areas provided. I recommend the wide and zone as a good starting point. Also, for older shooters, it is very difficult to hold a lens on target with spot focusing.
When Sony compresses the raw on the a7 III it loses some of its dynamic range. That causes you to not be able to recover highlights and shadows as well in post production. In reality, I find the compressed raw to work fine for me, but it is still a minor trade off.
I don't ever use the focus limiter, but if you want to try it, you can switch it to the last setting, which I believe is 10 meters to infinity. It is possible you would pick up speed when using slower AF cameras.
I will agree to disagree. It has more FPS, but the AF is better on the a7 III. I have not been impressed much at all with the APS-C Sony cameras and I love APS-C in general. But, truthfully, speed is relative in so many ways. What lens are you using, what f-stop (which matters with mirrorless) and so on.
@@MatthewCuda really? The 6400 has the newer AF and it has also the newer lock on tracking focus box, so I find it better for BIF than a7iii. But now I have the a7iv so I use the a6400 for video. But I you’re right. It comes down to many things. Thanks for your answer.
@@benben77777that is an optical zoom. I use a 200 to 600mm Sony lens. You can also engage the digital zoom which Sony calls APS-C mode. That is a 1.5x digital zoom but cuts you down to 10 Mp.
