{"id":72,"date":"2015-05-14T17:58:22","date_gmt":"2015-05-14T17:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonyguides.com\/?p=72"},"modified":"2015-05-14T18:19:45","modified_gmt":"2015-05-14T18:19:45","slug":"with-36-megapixels-you-dont-always-need-a-telephoto-lens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonyguides.com\/?p=72","title":{"rendered":"With 36 megapixels, you don&#8217;t always need a telephoto lens&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 2058px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net\/hphotos-ak-xpa1\/t31.0-8\/10857310_10152598354992540_8626884153039344717_o.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1076\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">With 36 megapixels, you don&#8217;t always need a telephoto lens<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>My Sony a7r and a6000 were two of my mainstays while I was shooting down in the Florida Keys during my January-March escape from the bitter Winter we had up North as 2015 opened.\u00a0 Although I favored the a6000 with the Sony 70-200mm f\/4 lens for wildlife, sometimes I found myself with an opportunity to shoot an interesting creature, such as this heron, when toting only my a7r and 24-70mm f\/4 Zeiss Vario-Tessar FE 24-70mm f\/4.\u00a0 As you can see from the slightly cropped main image at left, I really was able to get no closer than about 50 feet from the bird at Long Key State Park before it began to display skittish tendencies.\u00a0 I was already knee-deep in murky water, so I shot away.\u00a0\u00a0 Back at my Winter &#8220;headquarters&#8221; I was pleased to see that 36 megapixels were plenty to allow some judicious cropping.\u00a0 Exposure was about 1\/800th second at f\/5.6 at ISO 100 and OSS active.\u00a0\u00a0 I can&#8217;t remember whether I was more concerned about my feathered friend flying away, or slipping and giving my mirrorless camera a salt-water bath.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; My Sony a7r and a6000 were two of my mainstays while I was shooting down in the Florida Keys during my January-March escape from the bitter Winter we had up North as 2015 opened.\u00a0 Although I favored the a6000 with the Sony 70-200mm f\/4 lens for wildlife, sometimes I found myself with an opportunity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonyguides.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonyguides.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonyguides.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonyguides.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonyguides.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/sonyguides.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80,"href":"https:\/\/sonyguides.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions\/80"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonyguides.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonyguides.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonyguides.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}