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Please do not confuse this short notice with Saturday morning’s Why Auto-Exposure Bracketing with Digital? Announcing the RawDigger e-Guide with Two Videos. When You Can Do This Consistently, You Will Know That You Have Exposure Down Pat! And Billy Joel, Elton John, and the Citrus Bowl blog post here.

Sony Alpha a7r IV Mirrorless Digital Camera Body

BAA Record-Low Price — Reduced $100 28 JAN 2021
BAA Record-Low Price — Reduced $100 30 JAN 2021

Arthur Morris is offering a Sony a7r IV Mirrorless Digital camera body in excellent-plus condition for the BAA record-low price of $2298.00 (was $2498.00). Many might call this one near mint, but I like to be conservative when selling my own gear. The body has only 38,497 shutter actuations on it. The sale includes the original box and everything that came in it and insured UPS ground shipping to lower-48 US addresses. In addition, I will throw in a copy of The Sony Camera User’s e-Guide and One Camera Set-up Video (a $100.00 value). Your new camera will not ship until payment clears unless other arrangements are made. PayPal +4% will guarantee same day shipping.

Please contact artie via e-mail or by phone (or text) at 1-863-221-2372 (Eastern time zone).

For the past two years you have seen the incredible detail in my a7r IV images made with a variety of SONY lenses and both teleconverters. I’ve typically used my 7r IV for about 50% of my bird photography and my a9 II in pure flight situations. As the 7r IV sells new right now for $3498.00, you can save a very cool $1100.00 by grabbing my slightly used a7r iv. Though this 61-MP body is especially attractive to landscape and macro photographers, it is great for birds as well as you can pretty much crop to your heart’s content. artie

Sony Alpha a9 ii Mirrorless Digital Camera Body

BAA Record-Low Price — Reduced $200 on 30 JAN 2021

BAA-friend and multiple IPT veteran William Schneider is offering a Sony a9 ii Mirrorless Digital camera body in like-new condition for the very low price of $3298.00 (was $3498.00). The sale includes the original box and everything that came in it and insured UPS ground shipping to lower-48 US addresses. As a favor to Bill, I will throw in a copy of The Sony Camera User’s e-Guide and One Camera Set-up Video (a $100.00 value). Your new camera will not ship until payment clears unless other arrangements are made.

Please contact Bill via e-mail or by phone (or text) at 1-262-269-8628 (Eastern time zone).

From the moment I tracked that first incoming Brandt’s Cormorant, I knew that SONY a9 series bodies featured the world’ best AF. I upgraded to the a9 ii as soon as it was released for the slightly larger body size. I currently own two of them. A new a9 ii sells for $4,498.00. You can save a very nice $1000 by grabbing Bill’s pretty much new a9 ii. Not to mention that the new Sony A1 sells for $6498.00 … artie

Click on the composite to view a larger version. The best of Blackpoint Drive from Saturday morning …

Saturday Morning at Merritt Island NWR

While I did not have any clients on Saturday morning, and the sunrise was a bit on the bland side, the ground fog was mega and there are a zillion birds at the refuge — ducks, shorebirds, wading birds, and pelicans among others. I created 780 images using two a9 ii bodies and the following SONY lenses:

70-200mm f/2.8 GM
100-400mm f/5.6 GM
200-600 G
600 GM with the 1.4X TC

I kept 60 on the first edit. Those included some of my very favorites above. I am really excited about the rest of my stay. I had forgotten how good Black Point can be when it is great. 🙂

Best of all, I have yet to make an image from inside my vehicle! The dip-feeding Tricolored Herons were spectacular — tomorrow I will use either the 70-200 or the 100-500. Why? 200mm was often too long! I did photograph several young spoonbills right next to the road. In any case, that brings us to this:

Merritt Island NWR In-the-Field Instruction

If you would like to join me on Sunday morning or for the full day, please shoot me an e-mail immediately so that we can discuss the rates (inexpensive) and a schedule. Any telephoto or telephoto zoom lenses will do. The weather for tomorrow morning is looking great. I am open on Monday morning as well.

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