Animal Kingdom animals with the new 70-200mm F4 OSS lens

[zackiedawg]

This is for Gary in particular, who wanted to see samples from the new lens - and for anyone else interested in the animals of AK, the lens, or just enjoys animal photos! Picked up the Sony FE70-200mm G F4 OSS lens to go with my A6000 mirrorless, and this past week's trip to Disney was my first time to get to use it. I'm impressed with this lens - very sharp, very clean, focus is excellent, handles beautifully, solidly built, etc.

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One more, this one a non-animal shot...taken almost wide open, at 200mm, and from a distance of a Google Earth measured 250 feet:

Here's the 100% crop of the original (I took this from my Boardwalk villa patio, across the main pool):

 

[rickenmartin78]

Very impressive.

 

[gary]

well, i guess that makes up my mind about getting that lens, nice detail

 

[zackiedawg]

I'm pretty happy with it! I was out birding with it yesterday - decided to just take it to test it and left the big Tamron 150-600 home - though it's not the reach needed for serious birding, it does well enough down here because we can get pretty close to birds in Florida - I shot a lot of birds in flight, and the lens and camera are fast enough for even the difficult stuff like swallows and kingfishers and grackles flying. I think you should have a good experience with the lens, especially on the full frame camera for those more distant landscapes or details, and any wildlife encounters.