I am liking the Z 50 but struggling a bit to evaluate it for a few reasons, one is the longest lens i have is 250mm, not a lot of good for BIF images if you are going to crop, it did well to focus on the Duck in this image but with the short lens and poor light needing ISO 12800 not a lot of chance to crop.
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I have enjoyed your shots Mike. Have you considered using the FTZ adapter and some longer F Mount glass. I know on the Z6 adapted glass works as well as it does on my D700 or 7200. Just a thought... I figured you were having to crop more than you liked.
Thanks Dan, the FTZ is an option just trying to sort out if the rest of the camera is useable for birding, a few small niggles, cant turn the LCD off without cheating with the EVF eye sensor,can't stop it going into sleep mode which it takes too long to wake from, when i use auto ISO if it goes high say 9000 when i press the shutter button a stupid black box appears in the middle of the EVF warning me ime in a low light situation, i know that and its the subject i want to see not a childish warning.
If it was normal use not birding none of the above would be a problem as its a great camera.
These are only for a test, they are large crops of a bird flying slightly towards me and across my position, wanted to see how the AF-C would cope, not tracking.
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I feel it picked the bird up well and stayed with it
not bad for an iphone, i mean wait a a Z50.
What is it with you and pigeons, you would get a great shot with a mickey mouse camera, nice shooting mate.