After venturing out yesterday for a bit, I'm back in stay at home mode, so I made the long trek out into the back yard. Inspired by Peter's (@pcoulson) acquisition of his awesome new 600mm Sony zoom lens and its great results, I decided to drag out my 70-200mm Sony zoom lens and put it to work. I've often experienced focus hunt issues with it, but decided to perform the latest firmware upgrade, which was supposed to fix that. It still hunts a bit, especially at f-stops at f/11 and higher, but it settles in a little better. But in quick focus situations, it doesn't seem to be the best. Can't argue with the crisp results, though. If anyone has any suggestions regarding my lens issues, I'd be happy to hear them.
Pretty close up! I’ve also noticed that with my zoom lens, I often miss a quick shot because it can’t decide where to focus. Maybe that’s the downside of zoom as opposed to fixed lenses?
Looks very good indeed Ron lovely detail, bokeh and colour, interestingly I have the 70-200mm lens and have not noticed it hunting much at all but have notice the focus every now and then can be off, in some situations like birds perched through foliage I've manually focus on the bird and got better results:)
@redy4et I don't know, Elizabeth. It's the only lens that I have such problems with. Even the Tamron seems to have no such problem. I put the lens on the A6000 body too just to see if the A7 R2 might be the issue, and it's the same story. Maybe I'll see if Samy's can offer a fix.
@pcoulson Thanks Peter. Yes, if I have one issue with my Sony's it's that focus on unintended subjects problem at times. Some of those flexible spot modes can be more trouble than they're worth sometimes. I guess that's the downside of have so many focus points.
@Weezilou Thanks, Louise. Fortunately I had a second or two to let the lens settle in, but when I have ten lorikeets sitting on my head, there might not be that much time! You've got that lens, too, right?
