I’d really like to buy some long glass for one of my cameras and I am heavily leaning towards the Sony FE 100-400mm F4.5–5.6 GM OSS, but part of me wants to wait for the Sony FE 400mm f/2.8 GM OSS. I really like the Sony FE 100-400mm F4.5–5.6 GM OSS with 1.4x Teleconverter, but I can’t help but feel […]
The Falcon Heavy Launch was a very unique experience and while my live stream didn’t work out, I did manage to capture the above video in 4k. Thankfully even the audio quality came out pretty good, especially if you wear headphones, but it was a very windy day. Due to the nature of the launch and […]
Sony FE 100-400mm F4.5–5.6 GM OSS Firmware Update v02 (Download Here) Improves continuous autofocus (AF-C) performance while zooming in when attached to ILCE-9 *1 *1: Latest system software update required. Sony F2.8 70-200mm Zoom GM Firmware Update v03 (Download Here) Improves continuous autofocus (AF-C) performance while zooming in when attached to ILCE-9 *1 *1: Latest […]
The Sony a9 is maturing nicely with 3rd parties and Sony stepping up to ensure action photographers are covered. The Sony FE 100-400mm F4.5–5.6 GM OSS is the gold standard for photographers looking for tracking speed but adapted Sigma and Canon glass both perform very well today. Sigma has a slight advantage because the Sony a9 sees the lens […]
The Sony FE 100-400mm F4.5-5.6 GM OSS is an impressive performer and I can’t wait to see more real world results, but until then we will have to rely on sources like DXO that have scored the lens very high in sharpness, but not overall. The shortcomings DXO list is some vignetting wide-open. Telephoto zoom lenses like this tend to […]
It looks like some Sony Photographers are receiving Sony a9 cameras from Sony already along with the new Sony FE 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 GM OSS. They even have retail packaging in the video above, but it is not in English and translation isn’t available at the moment. The brief tracking experiment they do is pretty impressive and […]