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I will get to test new gear on some hikes in the coming weeks and our road trip to the Tetons in late September to capture the Elk rut. Been busy selling gear on eBay, lol and now will go out with...A7RV, Sony 200-600, Sony 1.4 teleconverter, Sigma 70-200mm f/2.8 DG DN OS, Sigma 24-70 DG DN Art II, Sony 12-24mm f/4 and 7Artisans 9mm. In the end buying the two Sigma lenses was just a little more than buying just one of the Sony equivalents. Yes, I miss out on being able to add a teleconverter to the Sigma 70-200. Sort of shocking to see it all listed here, really hobby out of control, lol.

Have same set up. Does not address mode issue but I found it helpful. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtWVbDEtStA

Amazing! One more technique to experiment with.

Thanks!

When I walk out the door I assume Mother Nature is trying to kill me, lol. I also assume my gear will often fail at the most inconvenient moment.. On a recent hike we visited some well known ice caves. It is an easy hike and many families visit them. Over decades there have been 4 recorded cave-ins that resulted in 4 deaths, one, tragically a child. There are multiple signs posted saying "do not go in the caves", "do not approach the caves", etc....But is not forbidden and there are no fines issued for entering them. We each have our own tolerance for risk, often based on our experience. I posted some photos and there has been push back about "setting a bad example" and "being stupid" for putting myself at risk. Curious to your thoughts, feel free to be blunt.

A tie between Wildlife and Landscape. Hiking in the Pacific Northwest results in more landscape opportunities. The 12-24mm is what is on the camera when we hit the trail.

Use Bridge and Photoshop and has worked fine with my A7RIII. Just took 250 photos with the A7R5 and when I put the card in my reader, hooked up to my Apple iMac Bridge is not seeing the SD card. Tried moving all the photos to an external, portable hard drive and Bridge is not seeing the hard drive. I can pull individual photos up with Photoshop, but not Bridge. No clue what I am doing wrong.

Just starting to play with the A7R5, so no real world experience with birds. Did come across this video.

"New" camera showed up A7RV. Another little test, shot taken from 1.2 miles away. A7RV, 200-600, 1.4 teleconverter. One is original pic take at 600m, next is 200% crop run through Topaz sharpen. In bright light, subject with lots of contrast felt the autofocus with the teleconverter was pretty good.

A test with the Sony A7RIII with the Sony 200-600, A7RIII 200-600 in Crop Mode, A7RIII, 200-600 +1.4 Teleconverter, A7RIII, 200-600, 1.4 Teleconverter in Crop Mode. Auto Focus, brought up the exposure a stop for all the images. No other editing. 1082 yards to subject. Thoughts?

FYI, in the end I have decided to sell my A7 III and purchase the A7RV and take advantage of the ability to crop to fill the frame. I will probably buy the 1.4 tele to use with the 200-600 even though some feel the autofocus is less than perfect. On those rare occasions I can alway go "old school" and manually focus, lol.

First, I have some experience editing photos but video not so much. Using Final Cut Pro. The color profiles for my wife Canon Vixia HF G50 is quite different than my Sony A7III and A7RIII. I prefer the color out of the Sony cameras but even if I take the Canon video and edit each clip still the difference is visible. I can't see a way to "batch process" video clips to get the color between the two systems closer.

M4/3 trade off is the increased noise and as you mention less flexibility to crop photos. As I am going through the Yellowstone photos to "fill the frame" with the wolf, coyote, bear, etc...I am having to do 200% crops and heavily processing the photos. Many are fine for our family youtube show, lol, but to me the processing is obvious and they look "fake". Maybe I will win the lottery and I can get the 600mm lens and a sherpa to pack it around.

We had a great trip! Sadly the digiscoping didn't happen but saw some impressive video taken with scopes and cell phones. As mentioned in another thread the Sony 200-600mm worked fine but there were several times I wish I had more reach. A few pics from Yellowstone.

Its and option, but it bugs me to possibly spends thousands of dollars over 2-3 trips.....Couple more with the 200-600mm