Is the Sony A9III the New Wildlife King ???

[@phillipkeath438]

Great to see you back doing what you love Scott. Just take it easy, don't go doing too much too soon & make sure your health stays as your number one priority. We want to continue seeing you making videos long into the future, but not at the expense of your health. Great Job!

[@WILDALASKA]

thx

[@simeonbennettphotography]

So good to see you out and about after all your health issues Scott 👍great video 👏🏻📸

[@WILDALASKA]

thanks

[@zephalu]

Glad to see you are back. You have been missed.

[@WILDALASKA]

thx

[@colmranger]

Delighted to see you looking so well. Your looking brilliant:)

[@WILDALASKA]

thx

[@curtisreynolds3475]

Glad to see you out Scott. I have been missing your field work videos.

[@WILDALASKA]

Thanks 👍

[@Jonathantuba]

I as a dedicated Sony shooter I have the A9iii as well as the A1. Autofocus is a bit better, but I agree is not perfect. Strangely in a burst shoot I may find some frames in focus and some soft, particularly on small birds using spot focus. But with high speed burst there are usually a lot I can use. Where the A9iii makes a BIG difference to me is the pre-capture. Particularly with birds, this has enabled me to get shots I would just have missed before. A small bird takes off and with the A1 my reaction time was too slow to capture, but now I nail it all the time - incredible! The lower megapixel has not made as much difference as I expected. 24mp against 50mp sounds huge reduction - less than half the size, which it is in area. But it is not as bad as that in use as length on the long side is 6000px long instead of 8640px - so it is 69.4% of the size. So if I crop an image on the A1 down to say 5000 px, the same image on A9iii will be 3470px, still quite usable, particularly with the option to upscale in software such as Topaz AI. The result is I don't 'loose' any images going out shooting with the A9iii instead of the A1 - but I will gain ones I would have previously missed by using the pre-capture and 120fps. I now virtually always shoot birds using the A9iii - keeping the A1 for use on slower moving mammals. I have not regretted purchasing the A9iii for a second. I could have waited for the A1 mark 2 which will no doubt have all these great new features and more megapixel, but then in that year waiting I may have lost dozens of great images I would not have captured as the A9iii gets me images I would have previously missed most times I am out.

[@WILDALASKA]

very good info

[@martnigu5060]

But this 24 mpixelsensor......? Is this the 20th century too?

[@allenfutrelle9090]

Thank the Lord you are back. Please continue to recover in proper time. I have the Sony a1 with the 200-600 lens, pretty sweet.

[@WILDALASKA]

Thanks, will do!

[@MooseManNaturePhotos]

Back out there! Good for you, great to see you doing what you love. Sticking with my Z9 and Z8 though, lol.

[@WILDALASKA]

👍

[@KingLoopie1]

Good to see out and about! Keep doing what you like to do! 👍👍

[@WILDALASKA]

thx

[@Kellysher]

Pre capture seems nice. I do like the idea of multiple settings. I can really see the benefits on that for action. I have a love hate relationship with culling and processing too many photos. Sometimes it can be overwhelming! I’d rather be out in nature than stuck behind a desk! Retiring in 2 years, so maybe the desk time won’t bother me as much. Heck, it will take me that long to save up for these new bodies! Love the channel and looking forward to what you do next!

[@WILDALASKA]

Very true. The day I ran down to Seward for the day and got back home I had over 6k images to cull through. The Joy of 120fps shooting lol.

[@danaswan843]

Damn. Great to see you back and looking good again. Like others, I’m not a Sony shooter but a Nikon shooter. But am interested in the global shutter. From your review I’m not worried. Keep up the great work.

[@WILDALASKA]

👍

[@jeffbirmingham861]

Glad to see you out and doing better!! Angie had a A9lll seen Feb and she is loving it even over her A1's. When we were there We stop by the camera store and the guys were super, i ended up buying a RF 24-70F2.8 from them. Great store for sure! Hope to be back out your way soon!! Keep up the great work!!

[@WILDALASKA]

Yes I watched her A9III videos. Its a great camera and the guys at Stewarts are awesome.

[@cathco9]

Hi Scott! 🖐🏻 Great review. I'm hoping that Canon is going to give us some great improvements for the upcoming R5 II. There's so much technology and features available now since the R5 released in 2020. It's great to see you out there again shooting and enjoying the day. Mental health sure does help physical health. You look happy. I've always enjoyed your channel and am grateful your health is improving. Spring migration for warblers has begun here in NJ. I need to get out and run my shutter. Thanks, Scott!

[@WILDALASKA]

Im sure the new canon features will include something new and amazing. they usually do. Thanks for the kind words. Yes it's great to get out and see the animals and birds. e are pre-spring up here but VERY close. In a week or so its going to be nuts.

[@jdiamond9513]

I have to agree with you on Stewarts Photo. It is an iconic camera store. I see from your video that they have cleaned it up and modernized it a lot since I lived there in the 90’s. But even then they had what you needed and their service was excellent.

[@WILDALASKA]

Yes its a very well stocked store

[@VABrowneMDPhD]

Great video, Scott! Great to see you outside and continuing to pray for your healing and recovery! I’m especially eager to see Canon, Nikon, Sony improve precapture in RAW, bigger faster buffers, and improved AF with tracking. I would love to see improved AI algorithms that identify and focus on the animals/bird instead of the brush, grass, trees, etc. Hopefully, the new camera bodies expected this year and firmware updates for existing cameras will improve these functions. In the Nikon Z8 and Z9, I would love to see Auto Capture and Precapture combined!

[@WILDALASKA]

agree totally.

[@JeffandLeslie]

good to see ya posting a video Scott. I'm not a Sony shooter but I still found this video interesting. very balanced review.

[@WILDALASKA]

Thanks

[@leonkirkbride6559]

Just came across this video and found it very interesting ,since I updated my A1 to FW2.01 I get exactly that problem you get at 24minutes in . Since this latest update I'm not happy with the focus anymore , I also get increased battery drainage . Anyway I'll subscribe and sorry to hear about your health issues , all the best

[@WILDALASKA]

thx

[@247FNN]

Good to see you again. But take care of yourself, no rush and one step at a time.

[@WILDALASKA]

thx

[@Walkinginthewoods]

Nice review Scott. Great to see you are starting to get out into nature again. Looking forward to your next film.

[@WILDALASKA]

Thanks 👍

[@teridashfield9852]

You've got me so hyped to see the wildlife in Alaska when we get there! Definitely going to the Sealife Center to see the birds! Glad you are out and about and especially love your Bronco. I have the same model 🤩

[@WILDALASKA]

Very cool. Yes, I'm loving the new Bronco. Drives so good and great for Alaska

[@Patmac3314]

Great to have you back. ❤

[@WILDALASKA]

Thank you!

[@derrickm9808]

Good to see you getting back into things hope your health is ok. I guess you are not aware but with my Z8 precapture settings I can choose different amounts of pre time .3, .5, 1.0 sec or off, have good day.

[@WILDALASKA]

Thanks. Yes you can control the time with the Z9 and Z8 for pre-capture but it's JPEG only not RAW. I probably should have stated the differences of Canon, Nikon, And the Sony A9III recapture more 😉

[@jameslarsen5106]

Canon needs to up their game with their new releases. Have you used DXO 4 ? Is it a lens equalizer at all for sharpness? Good to see you back you were missed. God Blessings

[@WILDALASKA]

Yes I have the new version 4. I haven't noticed anything much yet as I'm using it same as version 3 at the moment due to time constraints lately. Need to test the new features more soon. 🤪

[@ptvfr800]

Really good review thanks Scott, great to see you out and about again. The Sony is $9000 Australian which makes it double the price of the current R5, I just hope canon gives us a useable pre capture soon 🤞

[@WILDALASKA]

Yes the Sony style pre-capture would be amazing on the R5MKII and/or R1

[@astrudwick75]

So glad you're back at it.

[@WILDALASKA]

thx

[@labandjbify]

Good to see you Scott looking good👍

[@brucegraner5901]

Good to see you up and about again. Even though I don't shoot Sony I found your review interesting given that the A9 Mk 3 is such a ground breaking camera. If you're interested in taking a look at another interesting (rental) camera feature, check out the 2x digital converters built into the G9 and OM-1 series camera menus. I thought it was for video only in my G9 but recently photographed a pair of nesting eagles and their chicks. It allowed me to close the gap left by by 100-800mm lens that cropping the 20-meg sensor of my G9 couldn't accomplish and I was able to take close-up photos of the pair of eaglets in the nest. Used with lower ISO's and in good light it's become a valuable addition to my custom menu program. It's just a thought. I hope your recovery is a quick one.

[@WILDALASKA]

Yes there are some other manufacturers that are killing it out there. Just keeping up with the big 3 is hard. I may branch out into the others sometime soon.

[@CJC051]

great video!! glad to see you're recovering from all that hell you went thru,it's not easy but you'll get there,I had similar happened 4 years ago...the stents are a life changing surgery.

[@WILDALASKA]

agree. major life change

[@Rudy.Pohl.Ottawa]

So great to see, Scott. Awesome video review. Makes me happy I'm an R5 user.

[@WILDALASKA]

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[@iyengarfamily9443]

Good to see you back Scott!

[@WILDALASKA]

thx

[@todddrew1192]

Great Review.. Thanks for taking the time and your looking good.. Keep up your recovery.. Till next time, I will be running that shutter...

[@WILDALASKA]

Thanks

[@RichardBedford-p3q]

Great video, thank you. Keep well, Sir.

[@WILDALASKA]

Thank you too

[@PaulBawby]

Great review on a very interesting camera, that I'll probably never own because it simply too expensive ( but it's always interesting to hear about technological advances).

[@WILDALASKA]

She is a bit expensive

[@koojo86]

I got my R6MII from Stewart’s shipped up to Fairbanks. Quick service and really kind.

[@WILDALASKA]

They are an amazing group of folks.

[@isotechimages.9130]

For me Scott the autofocus for birds & animals is most important for me. I currently shoot with a R6ii & assuming the R5ii will be further improved. A little surprising that the latest Sony does not quite keep up with something as old as the R5. I seem to be the only one who likes the idea of Canon putting precapture in a seperate file so it does not even download into Lightroom l just pull the 3 or 4 shots l want out of the precapture file in camera & they download to Lightroom with the other images. The fact you feel Nikon has better bird focus is fantastic considering where they came from a few years back.

[@WILDALASKA]

So the Nikon Bird and the Canon (animal) work very close for birds. Nikon edges it out by a hair. The Sony is very good, but still behind Canon and Nikon for birds.

[@mvp_kryptonite]

A monster camera and hopefully one to make the competition surpass it. Great vid

[@WILDALASKA]

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[@longfas2007]

Nice work! Does the A93 perform worse in terms of image quality if you're in less than ideal lighting conditions?

[@WILDALASKA]

Not at all

[@P.E.J.]

I have a quistion for you. I have just bought a Canon R7 (much from watching you). I do a lot of wildlife-photography of mostly deer and smaler animals and I have a Sigma 70-300 1:4-5.6 on the camera now. Sometimes I need to take pictures from 200-250 meters and that lens wont quit make it then. What lens would you recommend for such distance (without ruin a persons economi totally) ??

[@WILDALASKA]

Nothing is going to give you shots of any quality at those distances. Anything over 75 Yards (70M) is going to be soft just due to environmental heat, wind, light, etc. f your doing environmental shots and don't need detail in your subjects then its a different matter. At that point its more like landscape photography

[@P.E.J.]

@@WILDALASKA the lens above is a 300US$ - so there is no point at getting a 2000US$ zoomlens, its the same result??

[@Xirpzy]

Also got some annoying health issues but manage to go outside if only for an hour now. Nature and photography is the place to be for me.

[@WILDALASKA]

👍🙏

[@nalediCS]

how long time it usualy take for the cameras to go down in price xD?

[@WILDALASKA]

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[@stephenthompson1998]

Glad to see you looking a little more like your old self. Interesting video to see Sony’s latest offering not for me. Take it easy and enjoy yourself not getting frustrated with your limitations as I am certain with time you will get stronger.S

[@WILDALASKA]

Thanks, will do!

[@mikaelschulin4315]

Great video! Thanks. Get well!

[@WILDALASKA]

Thank you!

[@CooperGabriel]

amazing video .. really helpful.

[@WILDALASKA]

Glad to hear that

[@WernerBirdNature]

Hi Scott, first of all, it's great to see you outdoors again, doing and enjoying your thing ! 💪 But I'm sorry having to inform you, you're being spied upon by the Chinese .. why else would this eye-AF jump onto the sticks ?? As also Jan Wegener said, with this a9iii, Sony clearly sets the bar for how pre-capture, buffering and a speed boost are supposed to work ! Let's cross our fingers the upcoming R5ii and R1 will do this job just as good 🤞 I guess for video the global shutter is a bigger advantage. But how do you compare the (lack of) rolling shutter between the a9iii versus the Z8/Z9 ?? Is for stills that last remaining bit of rolling shutter on a stacked sensor worse than taking ISO noise quality down to APS-C level ?? In Europe, you could get both the Z8 and R5 for the price of a a9iii .. meaning the price per pixel on the bird is huge. And it remains to be seen whether Sony will do a better job providing fw updates compared to the equally expensive a1 ..

[@WILDALASKA]

Yes she's expensive. For that I do the Z9 sensor readout speed is more than good enough. I don't really shoot crazy fast winged birds or many industrial or straight angled items in my shots. BUT the excitement for the future of global shutter that the a9III is revealing is great

[@WernerBirdNature]

@@WILDALASKA Absolutely agree Scott ! I guess you got too much snow for hummingbirds, right ?

[@WILDALASKA]

@@WernerBirdNature the hummingbirds get here in July I think. I dont really chase them but a lot of folks do when they get up here. Rufus I think is the main ones we get

[@davidsherman3462]

great video!!

[@WILDALASKA]

Thank you!!

[@db-cx4ki]

In the Sony A9iii, tracking is OFF by default. Enable it and the correct settings and this camera out performs any other on the market.

[@WILDALASKA]

I reviewed the A9 III and the AF is not near as good as the Canon or Nikon in bird tracking.

[@DenyceDaRapkillah]

@@WILDALASKA no way Nikon is up there with Sony and Nikon. I think you need some more time to get used to the Sony system. A lot of R5 users say that even the A1 is better for wildlife/bird tracking than the Canon R5... and the A9iii is def faster than the A1. And again Nikon is not even close to both of them.

[@vladepast4936]

Yes! and I'm a king of England...

[@WILDALASKA]

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[@tobynokla]

I'll stick with with NIkon Z8

[@WILDALASKA]

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[@tedcomeau2671]

Thanks for sharing your expertise, I will pray for healing in Jesus name.

[@WILDALASKA]

thx

[@RichardoBrit]

And that’s why Sony saying it has “AI” is a lie. True AI would have an “auto” mode where it can recognize different things without you having to specify bird, animal, car, plane etc. canon does this

[@WILDALASKA]

The all just do machine learning in their lab environments and push that out to their firmware for the cameras AF. I haven't really read up more on the 'AI' sony is claiming, but I'm sure its the same thing.

[@j.kimmer1509]

I agree with you 100% my 4 year old Canon has better auto focus and evf feed back than the Sony... I have all 3 platforms.

[@WILDALASKA]

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[@canadakaren1131]

Some really great features on that Sony for sure. I’m not a professional by any means but purchased my R7 in Jan this year and feel like I’m already behind the times. There will always be bigger and better so I’ll just have to learn to get the best out of what I have instead of having ‘Fumo’ 😊 Continued success on your healing journey Scott ❤‍🩹

[@canadakaren1131]

That should say ‘fomo’ lol!

[@WILDALASKA]

Yeah it's hard not to get GAS syndrome. Im lucky I can get to review these cameras. But the R7 is a great camera, its in my bag all the time

[@The_Idea_of_Dream_Vision]

R7 is great camera.