Sony A7 IV Cropped/Shared Images are Blurry

[Embeeous]

I am currently using an A7IV with GM 70-200 to shoot birds. I’m a week away from purchasing the GM 200-600 but for now that’s my setup. Pretty straightforward issue - no matter what shutter speed, aperture, focus mode, focus area or any other setting I use (I keep ISO on auto and capped at like 2000-2500), the pictures look great on the camera’s monitor, even when I zoom in to check out sharpness and details. But as soon as I go to share to my iPhone via Imaging Edge, or the big culprit - cropping to bring the bird more into view and prominence in the shot - I wind up with a blurry, noisy bird. Pretty much every time. I recently moved from the a6100 to A7IV and I’ve had this issue with both camera bodies, so barring user error, I’m guessing that I am simply not using enough lens to shoot birds. No one that I know shoots birds with less than 300mm. I’m guessing that a 200-600 will help me crop a lot less and result in clearer images post processing but I’d like to be sure before making the investment. Thank you in advance for any input that you can provide.

 

[Deleted Member 5003]

Good call Jeff but for the purposes of the above IQ discussion performance, the 200-600 mm, even as a G lens as you correctly note, still has 3 function OSS.

In addition as most users on the forum who use the 200-600mm, as well as photographers at large have found, the 200-600 performs very close
to GM quality despite the aperture limitations.

In my opinion I don't think Embeeous should concern himself too much whether its a GM or G, and even more so given the very low cost for such a high quality piece of glass...

 

[Jeff A]

Good call Jeff but for the purposes of the above IQ discussion performance, the 200-600 mm, even as a G lens as you correctly note, still has 3 function OSS.

In addition as most users on the forum who use the 200-600mm, as well as photographers at large have found, the 200-600 performs very close
to GM quality despite the aperture limitations.

In my opinion I don't think Embeeous should concern himself too much whether its a GM or G, and even more so given the very low cost for such a high quality piece of glass...

Thankfully, Sony puts out some lenses that perform above their price class. Surely the 200-600 is one of those. I have a couple of lenses that fit in that category as well, the FE20mm G lens is one such example.

 

[Deleted Member 5003]

Thankfully, Sony puts out some lenses that perform above their price class. Surely the 200-600 is one of those. I have a couple of lenses that fit in that category as well, the FE20mm G lens is one such example.

 

[SteveCress]

Maybe I'm late to the party and missed something, but you're uploading very low resolution photos to your phone. Imaging Edge defaults to 2MP and you have to change it to original size and make sure you're shooting JPEG or RAW+JPEG.

 

[Gaz]

The file size of that sample jpg shot is absolutely miserable (432kb). Ensure you're importing full size 36mb raw files and exporting from iPhone to full-resolution jpg. You can always reduce the size if you need to?

I shoot in both RAW and HEIF. The heif files are often 6 - 16Mb and always 33Mp. HEIF is a native apple format. No challenge on the iphone.

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