a9 II

For wildlife, the best (almost) no caveat systems would be OM System or Sony. Some of the most important features for me would be a stacked sensor with decent buffer, pre-capture, and blackout free shooting (which is essential for birds in flight). Canon freezes up when the buffer is full, Nikon lac

I made a similar post recently and was told used Sony A9 or A9ii would be the best options, but that was photography only. Both A9’s have a stacked sensor which is unique to the flagship models so it’s really good for action shots and high fps. I don’t believe they are the greatest for video though.

Others have explained why this happened. I just wanted to add: If you ever get to a point, where you need silent shooting / electronic shutter in sports photography, look for cameras with “stacked” sensors. Like the Sony A9, A9II, A9III and the A1 cameras. They have much faster readout, in the singl

I have used the A9/A9II some as rentals. Personally I don't think the Z5II will be a much of an upgrade to your A9. The Z5II's electronic shutter will be to slow for hummingbirds and any wing movement. You would need to shoot with the mechanical shutter at 11fps to not have the "rolling shutter" eff

Fuji are known for having not that great AF-C I would rather look at either 2nd hand mirorless with stacked sensor (stacked sensor allows for more frequent AF sampling which is massive advantage when target is changing speed, and faster fps) Sony a9 / a9ii (a9 would be cheapest allowing to spend mor

assuming that you are going to shoot sports, since you posted in a sports forum? you want a stacked or global sensor for that, so with sony it's a1, a1ii, a9, a9ii, a9iii. sort this list by "photo" heading, to see the actual readout speeds. https://horshack-dpreview.github.io/RollingShutter/ the r5i

Do not buy the older A9. There are so many camera bodies that are better now. You could get an A6700, or even an A9II with a lens and still have money left to spare. Keep in mind the A9s are lower resolution that other bodies you're looking at, so you will have to be able to get closer to your subje

My only issue with the getting the lens first, is that with a crop sensor, the 100-500 may be too much reach to cover the action easily. So I would go with the 100-400 recommendation there. I suggested the a9/a9ii because of the stacked sensor, blackout free EVF, and the still awesome autofocus capa

Another fun example of this , the Sony A99ii has the exact same 42 megapixel sensor as the A7R2. This means the A7, A7ii, A9 and A9ii all have a worse sensor than the last Sony DSLR.

The a9iii seems like it comes from the future and I played with the idea of moving to Sony for a night. I landed on the a9iii as the only entry point (and then selling all the canon gear) because I didn’t think the a9ii was going to be a big improvement. That seems like a lot of change (and high pri