Sony A7 IV First outing with A7iv

[DavidN]

So, I eventually received my A7iv and spent a bit of time trying to set it up and generally playing around. In addition, the weather was rubbish so didn’t get out to try it in anger. A couple of days ago, I decided to drive up to a bit of local woodland next to some municipal football fields as I’d seen a couple of tree creepers there the day before. Sod’s law - when you have your camera though, they don’t turn up. After wandering around for a couple of hours not seeing much, I decided to head back to the car when above my head appeared a Red Kite so managed to get a couple of shots. Whilst watching the Red Kite fly off, I noticed a female Kestral over the road and decided to sit and wait to see if it came over my side. Sure enough, after about 1/2 hour it came over

• ILCE-7M4

• ILCE-7M4

and sat on one of the goal posts then hopped over onto the green post holding back the net. As it was looking right at me, although quite a way away, I focussed on it thinking I might get a couple of shots if it flew off the post in my direction. Suddenly, a male Kestral appeared and mounted the female. Although I got a few shots, they were quite distant and so heavily cropped. Never mind, it made for an interesting first outing. Just hope my luck with posing subjects holds.

 

[Ralph]

Well done mate.

 

[Tim Mayo]

Nice catches David! I've yet to get a nice shot of a kestrel in the wild. I took a few last week but they were miles away, even the 61MP of the a7R IV didn't help!