Together, Metabones, Sony and Canon Hit Grand Slam

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Originally Posted by Terry989

Amazing photos! Your Album is like a frame by frame movie. ISO 8000, I'm always afraid to shoot as such high ISO! Guess I'll have to experiment more.

The good new for sports and nature photographers now is that you may no longer need that heavy, expensive f/2.8 glass since you can always dial up the ISO and still get fantastic photos in low light.

I meet bird and wildlife photographers all the time that are simply using too low an ISO. On a sunny day, my default is ISO 800/f8 and 1/2000-sec. As for high-ISO performance, the Canons are as good as the Sony. I actually prefer the files of my Canon 5D MkIV, but we're talking 7-fps vs. 20-fps and the Sony's AF doesn't miss. It's a new paradigm.

With most sports, 1/1000-sec. is enough. I took the deer jumping at 1/750-sec.

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FYI, here's an a9 sample at ISO 20,000:

Ready To Rumble by David Stephens, on Flickr

I could have shot at ISO 10000, but I wanted to see how the file would look. Remember, I use DxO's PRIME noise reduction, which is one of the very best, pixel-by-pixel NR programs that you can bu.